A five-part series presented by Dr Jonathan Miller.
2: Out of Sight. A look at the rise and fall of the asylum, described by Miller as "a loony bin, a laughing academy, a bug house, a snake pit". Those who conceived of the idea had optimistic hopes of an asylum or safe haven for the insane. The depressing realities and often brutal treatments practised within the institutions they created are in complete contrast, culminating in the wholesale murder of the insane in Nazi Germany. As asylums are once again being closed down and their patients returned to the community, have attitudes to madness progressed at all during the last 400 years? Director/Producer Richard Denton Executive producer Udi Eichler A Brook production for BBCtv
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