Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The bulk of the Janet Colaizzi Collection concerns activities, programs, and psychiatric nursing administration at Eastern State Hospital, the Commonwealth of Virginia's mental health facility in Williamsburg. Of particular importance are a series of professional staff manuals relating treatment standards and philosophies at the hospital, which offer a good overview of mental health care in the period from the 1950s to the 1970s. Also of interest is a patient handbook from 1964; materials...
Dates:
1965/02/15-18, 1988/04/21