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      Brattleboro  Retreat (Vermont Asylum for the Insane)  -founded in 1834 by Anna Marsh -58 buildings + sites, nine buildings. -one of the first ten mental hospitals in the US. -1000 acres of land: farm buildings, ancillary cottages, residnces, spring houses, towes -all set in a scenic environment with open meandows woods and fields. -treatment was patterened on Quaker concept - moral treatment. - some treatments were influenced by Benjamin Rush -The treatment methods emphasized fresh air, physical activity, educational enrichment, therapeutic farm and kitchen work, and supportive staff -had patient-produced newspaper, bowling alley, chapel, theater, gymnasium, recreation fields, patient chorus, book discussion groups, outing club, working hospital dairy farm, patient-managed enterprises, and the first hospital swimming pool anywhere.

- believed people could be cured with proper treatment. - said to have influenced the treatments at VAFTI. - invented the "Tranquilizer Chair" - he was called "The Father of American Psychiatry" - he sigend the Declarations of independence. - believed in leeches and bleeding. - invented a knife for bleeding. - wrote //Medical Inquiries and Observatons Upon Diseases of the Mind -// invented idea of addiciton, which is now treated at Brattleboro Retreat
 * Benjamin Rush**

- a family member of hers died from a bad healing experience, which helped her with the idea of humane treatments. - left $10,000 in her will, and instructed her heirs to build a mental hospital in Brattleboro, VT. media type="custom" key="711635"
 * Anna Marsh**



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