Walls of Containment
Patrick Quinlan
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Walls of Containment

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Walls of Confinement looks at a crucially unexamined aspect of Irish mental illness facilities: their architecture. Ireland was hardly alone in perpetuating institutional responses to mental illness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but this small country took things farther than most: by the 1950s, it had the world's highest number of psychiatric ward beds per capita. Many have sought to explain Ireland's unusual density of mental illness facilities, but Patrick Quinlan's book looks to one underexplored aspect of such facilities as a means to an explanation: their architecture. Walls...