Researched, written, directed, shot, and edited by Anthony Ericsson.
Narrated by Jacob Sorensen.
Voice Cast:
Jacob Sorensen - Philippe Pinel
Spencer Kenawell - William Tuke
Claire Morse - Dorothea Dix
Anthony Ericsson - Thomas Story Kirkbride
Emmi Kilgallen - Nellie Bly
Morgan Hartwell - Horace Mann
Abridged List of Sources:
The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America’s Mentally Ill, by Gerald Grob
Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America’s Premier Mental Hospital, by Alex Beam
Ten Days in a Mad-House, by Nellie Bly
On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane, by Thomas Story Kirkbride
The State Schools of Massachusetts by Katherine Anderson
The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan
Abandoned America: Dismantling the Dream by Matthew Christopher
Belchertown State School by Katherine Anderson
Danvers State Hospital by Katherine Anderson & Robert Duffy
Northampton State Hospital by J. Michael Moore & Anna Schuleit Haber
Norwich State Hospital by Christine Rockledge
Allentown State Hospital by Steven Royer
Long Island State Hospitals by Joseph M. Galante
Westborough State Hospital by Katherine Anderson
Tewksbury State Hospital by Ashlynn Rickord Werner & Jon Maynard
History of the Walter E Fernald Developmental Center by Marie E. Daly
On Being Sane in Insane Places by David L. Rosenhan
Dorothea Dix; or, the Voice of a Maniac by Sonya Michel
Belchertown State School Friends
National Library of Medicine
Library of Congress
Digital Commonwealth
Asylum Postcards
National Library of Medicine
Peabody Institute Library
danversstateinsaneasylum.com
Special Thanks To:
Mr. Anthony DiBenedetto
Waltham Public Library
Preston Public Library
Linda Christensen & the Preston Historical Society
Sean Nugent & the Preston Redevelopment Authority
Jason Allard / Uncommon Sense Media
Antiquity Echoes