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Mental Health Notes - News, Education and Advocacy

March 25th, 2008

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum Upsets Mental Health Advocates

According to The Charleston Gazette article Groups protest ‘lunatic asylum’ name, a pre-Civil War mental hospital in Weston, West Virginia has - after undergoing several name changes spanning the 19th and 20th centuries including “West Virginia Hospital for the Insane,” “Weston State Hospital,” and then simply “Weston Hospital” - gone back to using its maiden […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 16 comments