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Tag Archives: hospital

Revelations: Hysterical Re-Invention of the Body Hammer

So goes the hysterical re-invention of hysteria by Javier Viver

Byberry Insane Asylum – A House of Horrors in 1940’s Philadelphia

For nearly 200 years, Northeastern Philadelphia had treated its surrounding mentally ill citizens “to keep them off the streets” because they caused “terror among their neighbors.”

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