The Inside Story ; After a Two-Year Refurbishment, the Glenside Hospital Museum Is Officially Reopened This Week. David Clensy Takes a Look at the Exhibition, Which Tells the Story of Psychiatric Treatment in the City Since the Days of the Bristol Lunatic Asylum.

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THERE is something strangely disquieting about standing in a padded cell - focusing on the tiny chink of light coming through the slatted window in the equally padded door.

Imagine the distress and confusion that must have once surged through the patients at the Glenside psychiatric hospital ws hen they found themselves locked in one of these padded rooms.

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The Inside Story ; After a Two-Year Refurbishment, the Glenside Hospital Museum Is Officially Reopened This Week. David Clensy Takes a Look at the Exhibition, Which Tells the Story of Psychiatric Treatment in the City Since the Days of the Bristol Lunatic Asylum.

But treatments we may perceive as brutal today, were once believed to be progressive.

The hospital began life in 1861, when it was opened with the no- nonsense title of the Bristol Lunatic Asylum. It's a name that may seem jarring to modern sens...

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