'The American Journal of Psychiatry' left lying on a windowsill. CREEPY images have revealed the infamous Irish asylum that tortured homosexuals and t
'The American Journal of Psychiatry' left lying on a windowsill. CREEPY images have revealed the infamous Irish asylum that tortured homosexuals and treated the mentally ill with lobotomies for two centuries before finally closing its doors just SEVEN years ago. In one image, three leather-clad doors stood open in the maximum-security wing of the asylum leading to padded cells which once held patients considered to be high-risk. In another, human bones remained in a bathtub alluding to the horrors that once took place within the asylum?s walls. The images were captured by hobbyist urban explorer Cathal Henry (48) from Dublin, Ireland, who is better known online as Uncharted Ireland. Located in the west of the country, the building is referred to by urban explorers as Asylum X. Cathal captured the images on his Canon 5D Mark II camera over four visits ? the longest of which lasted for nine hours. Asylum X originally opened in 1833 to house 150 patients but over the following century, the asylum system grew exponentially in Ireland and by the 1950s, Asylum X was home to over 2,000 patients. This brought the population of the local town up to 6,000 meaning a third of the population was considered ?mentally Asylum X was notorious for its barbaric ? Mental illness was often treated with a lobotomy or a three day stay in ?the pit? without food or water. Those who were suspected to have depression were taken to the ?circulating This spun up to 60 times a minute to encourage compliance. The asylum also carried out inhumane ?correctional? procedures to treat homosexuality. Patients were shown images whilst being subjected to electric shocks or vomit-inducing drugs to teach them the ?correct? response. In the late 20th century, Ireland began to deinstitutionalise its asylums. Once the pillars of local economies, asylums fell out of favour when the horrors of what went on inside began to escape. Perhaps the most shocking revelation of all is that A
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