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The cemetery associated with Leyme Mental Hospital

Christian Védie

Université Aix-Marseille 1christian.vedie{at}ch-valvert-marseille.fr

A detailed study of a cemetery attached to a provincial psychiatric hospital underscores its resemblance to military and Anglo-Saxon burial grounds. It is a sad reminder of the isolation and abandonment of many patients in French asylums up to the middle of the twentieth century.

Key Words: asylum • burial rites • cemetery • history • psychiatric hospital • psychiatry

History of Psychiatry, Vol. 16, No. 1, 111-115 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0957154X05045256
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