Historical Psychiatric Care Scenes

A collection of black and white images depicting various aspects of psychiatric and healthcare settings, including patients and healthcare professionals in a range of contexts.

First Aid Case. Italy 1961

Blood Bank, Hospital Foch, Suresnes. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Reportage in the Chrysalide wellness centre in France that specialises in chromotherapy. A patient receives both chromotherapy and music therapy treatment.

Photo essay in a French Medico-Educational Institute. This institute takes care of 26 autistic teenagers.

Reportage on a woman suffering from anorexia. Chloe, 24, suffers from anorexia. Her progress is followed at the SOS Anor Centre in Paris, France who offer multidisciplinary treatment. Psychomotor therapy session.

Blood Bank, Hospital Foch, Suresnes. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Reportage in the Chrysalide wellness centre in France that specialises in chromotherapy. A patient is massaged by Dr Bourdin while receiving chromotherapy treatment.

Malaria in Sierra Leone.

Massage cuticle remover into each cuticle and work cuticle gently back taking care not to damage or tear the cuticle. May 07, 1954.

A nurse hands a cup of methadone to a man in a medical clinic at 456 C St., N.W., Washington, D.C. - digital file from original | Library of Congress

Sylvie, 50, had a mastectomy as a result of breast cancer. She is a member of the French association The Amazons, and says not having breast reconstruction is a personal choice and should be respected.

Reportage in the sleep laboratory at Lyon-Nord Rillieux polyclinic. Carrying out a polysomnography exam over night. Polysomnography consists of recording, during sleep, several physiological variables in order to determine certain sleep disorders. 7.30pm: setting up the specific equipment, removing excess sebum to attach the electrodes.

Reportage on a woman suffering from anorexia. Christel, 32, has suffered from anorexia for 2 years. Her body mass index (BMI) is 16.7 and is extremely thin. Her doctor has prescribed her dietary supplements which are more often intended for undernourished elderly people.

The Turbans Gallery : Maryline psychologist and wigmaker. Maryline, psychologist and wigmaker in Paris receives cancer patients following a chemotherapy and whose hair are falling down. She provides women with aesthetic solutions during the treatment. Maryline has settled her salon in her apartment to receive the women in intimacy. This woman decided to get her hair cut off because of an important hair loss.

Reportage in the Chrysalide wellness centre in France that specialises in chromotherapy. A patient is massaged by Dr Bourdin while receiving chromotherapy treatment.

Anefo photo collection. End of tip system at the hairdressers. November 23, 1960

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Hospitals, interior, beds, men, food, tables. undated

England, Merseyside, Liverpool, Elderly woman visiting patient at Walton Hospital, 1972.

Reportage with the Swiss Red Cross, who organise home visits for the elderly to break their isolation. A volunteer visits an elderly person once or twice a week to keeep them company, do their shopping and give them their mail.

Reportage in a psychiatric day care centre in Haute Savoie, France. The day care centre is a part-time psychiatric care unit with a dozen patients a day. Each patient follows a specific programme : interviews, nursing care and activities.

Two hands held on either side of a dark mark on a forearm, to demonstrate the manual treatment of ulcers. Photograph.

Reportage in the psychiatric unit of a hospital in Haute Savoie, France.

Malaria in Sierra Leone.

Anefo photo collection. Released children in hospital; One of the children with toys. May 28, 1977

Treating The Mentally Sick -- The advance of scientific research and the closer co-operation of doctors in every branch of medicine has transferred the old asylums into hospitals for treatment. Patients are now treated for mental sickness, with no more embarassment than if they were physically ill. Patients run their own sports clubs, cafeterias, social clubs and libraries. Male patients work on the hospital farms while female patients give a helping hand in the laundry. Nearly all mental hospitals in Britain are part of the Regional Hospital Services under the National Health Act of 1948. May 12, 1952. (Photo by British Official Photograph).

Close-up of a scientist injecting a rabbit

Closeup photo of a female feet at spa salon on pedicure and manicure procedure

The enormous hands of Ewart Potgieter, South Africa's 7ft 2in boxing giant, are illustrated as he holds a normal a normal-sized drinking glass. Potgieter's fingers resemble fair-sized sausages. From the tip of the middle finger to the joint of the wrist his hand measures nearly 10in and from thump tip across to the other side of the hand the measurement in 8in. December 20, 1954.

Immunology Doctor Measuring Allergy Reaction of Patient. Immunology Doctor Measuring Allergic Reaction of Patient

Woman with bandage over mouth

Homeless man with congenital disease lying on cobblestone street

Gifts From America -- Some of the gifts from America being sorted by British Red Cross nurses for distribution.British Red Cross nurses are distributing gifts from America and elsewhere to various hospitals in the country. March 07, 1941. (Photo by Fox Photos).

PETTY Officer 2nd Class Kathleen Kerr, a hospital corpsman, checks the oxygen system in one of the U.S. Naval Hospital ambulances, while standing duty as an emergency technician. Base: Rota Country: Spain (ESP)

Second World War. Lazarett (probably in Holland). Wounded relatives of the German Wehrmacht in the hospital bed

Anefo photo collection. Princess Beatrix in Academic Hospital in Utrecht, Age Surveillance area where Beatrix is located. April 26, 1967. Utrecht

Young blonde woman master tattooist in glasses and hat with tattoo machine at hands make tattoo at hand of man. Close up Young blonde woman master tattooist in glasses and hat with tattoo machine at hands make tattoo at hand of man. Close up ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released Copyright: xZoonar.com/ASxphotographyx 9631173 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

Dura-Chemie produces medicines for the medical sector, here on 01.06.1990 in Wolfsratshausen, DEU, Germany, Europe

Reportage on family carers. A family carer is a person who helps someone in their family when they lose their autonomy, due to illness or old age. Mimie had to go and live in her mother's apartment when her father died. Mimie's mother, who is 98, cannot walk any more and has to be helped in all her daily activities. She requires constant attention which limits Mimie to 4 hours off per week, during which a female attendant helps out. The situation of family carers is largely unknown in France, to such an extent that in many cases, carers don't even know they are carers. Yet there are 8.3 million people aged 16 or over, who regularly help out at one of their close family member's homes.

Various photos from the field of medicine, here 18.7.1997 in Iserlohn, DEU, Germany, Europe

The Turbans Gallery : Maryline psychologist and wigmaker. Maryline, psychologist and wigmaker in Paris receives cancer patients following a chemotherapy and whose hair are falling down. She provides women with aesthetic solutions during the treatment. Maryline has settled her salon in her apartment to receive the women in intimacy. This woman decided to get her hair cut off because of an important hair loss.

italia, abano terme, ragazzo sottoposto a cure inalatorie, 1940

Guy's Hospital- Life in a London Hospital, England, 1941 The reflection of a nurse of the Anglo-American Ambulance Unit can just be seen in a plaque on the back of an ambulance which states that: 'This ambulance was presented to American Ambulance Great Britain by Fred A Poor of Chicago USA, June 1940'.

Lesson for first aid to an injured person. 1964.

Reportage on a woman suffering from anorexia. Chloe, 24, suffers from anorexia. Her progress is followed at the SOS Anor Centre in Paris, France who offer multidisciplinary treatment. Psychomotor therapy session during which she has to situate herself amongst several outlines of women.

A nure holding a child at Hanoi Pediatrics Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam

Therapy-regl. board. >>

Hospitally Large Bear.

GRABADO-OPERACION DE CATARATAS.

African American dad cries as baby is born during hospital birth

Anefo photo collection. Hospital at the Plantation of HvA in Wonji (Ethiopia), children in the hospital. January 27, 1969. Ethiopia, Wonji

Reportage in a psychiatric day care centre in Haute Savoie, France. The day care centre is a part-time psychiatric care unit with a dozen patients a day. Each patient follows a specific programme : interviews, nursing care and activities.

Reportage on a woman suffering from anorexia. Christel, 32, has suffered from anorexia for 2 years. Her body mass index (BMI) is 16.7 and is extremely thin.

Anefo photo collection. ABVA / KABO consults CAO healthcare agreement Haarlem. June 27, 1989. Haarlem, Noord-Holland

Jackie Wilson 8 stone 13½ lbs. Kui Kong Young 8 stone 8 lbs. August 14, 1939.

St. Lo's New Hospital, Inaugural Ceremonies. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Adel breast training 1976. Hut from an adel breast in the Neptune alloy building.

Part-time psychiatric day hospital for nursing care, consultations, activities.

Vintage photograph. Silhouettes of physician with injection needle and patient in front of door marked "Conference Room"

Shortly after his arrival at the Aviation Officer Candidate School, a candidate receives a haircut. Base: Naval Air Station, Pensacola State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

To cross to Dalarna and Värmland with the National Association Against Polio, The Stockholm Department.

Close-up of a man wearing protective eyewear

Feldspital 3/13, bathroom. Recorded on 6.V.1916. Tlumacz. .

1976 - The primary ambulance, equipped with litters, emergency ambulance bag, radio, oxygen, oxygen masks, suction machine and OB pack, at the U.S. Army Hospital, Camp Kuwae in Okinawa.

Blood Bank, Hospital Foch, Suresnes. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Oral polio vaccination (childhood immunisation) on 28.01.1980 in Iserlohn, Germany, Europe

Anefo photo collection. Destruction: Venlo. Nursing in the basement of the Sint-Joseph Hospital in Venlo during and after the struggle to the city .. March 1945. Limburg, Venlo, South of the Netherlands

France, Brittany, Medreac on 2022-03-23. At the beginning of 2022, the journalist Victor Castanet denounced in his book Les Fossoyeurs the scandal of the accusations of "institutional mistreatment" of the residents of the Orpéa group's retirement homes, provoking the fall of this world leader in residential care for dependent elderly people. It is in this context that the Residence Les Menhirs, claiming a virtuous and benevolent model, agreed to welcome me for a long period of time within their establishment for a photographic and documentary immersion. Located in Medreac, in the heart of rural Brittany, this retirement home applies the "Humanitude" philosophy of care. This method of good treatment that they have been applying since the opening of the EHPAD in 2008 is based on five principles: zero care by force, without abandoning care; "living and dying on your feet"; respect for privacy and singularity; openness to the outside world; a place of life, a place of desires. Photograph b

Visit from a professor at the Dive Medical Center in Den Helder

Boy with facial deformity sitting at Hanoi Pediatrics Hospital,

Photo essay in a French Medico-Educational Institute. This institute takes care of 26 autistic teenagers.

Adel breast training 1975.

Reportage on home birthing. Gisèle, an independent midwife, helps couples who wish to have a non-medicalized home birth in a family setting. Home births represent roughly 90% of births throughout the world, but only 1% in France.

The SMUR emergency service intervenes throughout the region 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Emergency Physician Michel Maillé and his team are called in, a woman complains of chest pain. In the SMUR's light vehicle.

Portrait of young female nurse, man wearing surgical glove in the background, illustration

Doctor and young nurses by Stanley Borack, 20th century

Reportage in the sleep laboratory at Lyon-Nord Rillieux polyclinic. Carrying out a routine polysomnography on a patient suffering from sleep apnea. This routine polysomnography evaluates the comfort of a patient treated with a respiratory aide device and the benefits of the treatment. 7.30pm: setting up the specific equipment. Placing electrodes on the head, face and neck which are linked to a data storage device.

Reportage on a woman suffering from anorexia. Christel, 32, has suffered from anorexia for 2 years. Her body mass index (BMI) is 16.7 and is extremely thin. Her doctor has prescribed her dietary supplements which are more often intended for undernourished elderly people.

Alzheimer's disease, illustration

German AIDs campaign poster circa 1992. Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Medical workers encouraging illustration

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