Window from Superintendent's Office
DimensionsOverall: 180 × 116 × 20 cm (1.8 × 1.16 × 0.2 m)
Credit LineGift from St. Joseph's Health Care London, 2008
Object number2008.005.288
Label TextThis window was once installed in the superintendent’s office at the London Asylum for the Insane (1870-1902), later named the London Psychiatric Hospital. Superintendents Henry Landor (1870-1877) and Richard Maurice Bucke (1877-1902) led initiatives for progressive treatments of mental illnesses, including a type of occupational therapy then known as moral therapy. This involved tending to the hospital grounds, and a focus on emotional and social interactions. After 144 years of treatments and property changes, the hospital ceased operations at the Highbury site in 2014.
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