The way people with schizophrenia were housed in mental hospitals during the first half of the twentieth century could be compared to a storage facility.
People with mental illnesses were looked after by family members up to the 19th century, who quietly responded to their needs in rural locations. But as the Industrial Age began and crowded towns proliferated, many people worried that those with mental illnesses posed a threat to public safety.
Asylums were built to house psychiatric patients as a result of this perceived threat. As a result, during the second part of the twentieth century, many states had started operating public mental hospitals. Since the wealthy patients could seek sanctuary in the private philanthropic asylums, like McLean Hospital in Massachusetts, which compelled patients to pay their own way, these havens eventually turned into institutions for the poor.
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