Trenton Psychiatric Hospital

Hospital in New Jersey, United States

Trenton Psychiatric Hospital

West entrance to the hospital in 2023

Geography
Location| Trenton and Ewing Township, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States
Coordinates| 40°14′37″N 74°48′20″W﻿ / ﻿40.2436°N 74.8055°W﻿ / 40.2436; -74.8055
Organization
Type| Specialty
Services
History
Opened| May 15, 1848
Links
Lists| Hospitals in New Jersey
An undated engraving of the hospital from the mid-19th century

The Trenton Psychiatric Hospital is a state run mental hospital located in Trenton and Ewing, New Jersey. It previously operated under the name New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton and originally as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum.

Founded by Dorothea Lynde Dix on May 15, 1848, it was the first public mental hospital in the state of New Jersey,[1] and the first mental hospital designed on the principle of the Kirkbride Plan.[2] The architect was the Scottish-American John Notman.

Under the hospital's first superintendent, Dr. Horace A. Buttolph, the hospital admitted and treated 86 patients. In 1907, Dr. Henry Cotton became the medical director. Believing that infections were the key to mental illness, he had his staff remove teeth and various other body parts that might become infected from the hospital patients. Cotton's legacy of hundreds of fatalities and thousands of maimed and mutilated patients did not end with his leaving Trenton in 1930 or his death in 1933; in fact, removal of patients' teeth at the Trenton asylum was still the norm until 1960.[3] In the 1940s, Muriel Gardiner remarked on the high rate of organ removal at the hospital.[4]

## See also

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* John Forbes Nash (1928–2015), patient
* Nathan Trupp (born 1947), patient
* Howard Unruh (1921–2009), patient
* Human experimentation in the United States
* Willowbrook State School
* Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, the second "lunatic asylum" opened in New Jersey (1876).
* Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine

## References

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1. ^ "Trenton Psychiatric Hospital". American Journal of Psychiatry. 156 (12): 1982. December 1, 1999. doi:10.1176/ajp.156.12.1982. S2CID 251181786.
2. ^ Carla Yanni, The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States, Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2007, 55
3. ^ Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine, Andrew Scull, Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-300-10729-3
4. ^ Jill Lepore, Joe Gould's Teeth (New York: Knopf, 2016), p.106.

## External links

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* Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health Services
* http://www.rootsweb.com/~asylums/trenton_nj/
* http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/156/12/1982
* http://www.forgottenphotography.com

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The Kirkbride Plan

People|

| Physicians|

Thomas Story Kirkbride

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Advocates|

Dorothea Dix

Architects|

* Samuel Sloan
* Elbridge Boyden
* Nathaniel Bradlee
* John G. Haskell
* Levi Scofield
* Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge
* Richard Snowden Andrews

Notable buildings|

| Northeast|

* New Jersey State Hospital
* Harrisburg State Hospital
* Taunton State Hospital
* Northampton State Hospital
* Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital
* Dixmont State Hospital
* Hudson River State Hospital
* Danville State Hospital
* Buffalo State Hospital
* Warren State Hospital
* Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital
* Worcester State Hospital
* Danvers State Hospital

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Mid-Atlantic|

* St. Elizabeths Hospital
* Central State Hospital (Virginia)
* Spring Grove Hospital Center

Midwest|

* Central State Hospital (Indiana)
* Jacksonville State Hospital
* Dayton State Hospital
* Wisconsin State Hospital
* Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital
* Mount Pleasant State Hospital
* St. Peter State Hospital
* Anna State Hospital
* Elgin State Hospital
* Osawatomie State Hospital
* Topeka State Hospital
* Winnebago State Hospital
* Independence State Hospital
* Athens Lunatic Asylum
* Columbus State Hospital
* Eastern Michigan Asylum for the Insane
* Kankakee State Hospital
* Clarinda State Hospital
* Northern Michigan Asylum
* Nevada State Hospital
* Cherokee Mental Health Institute
* Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center

South|

* Western State Hospital
* Jackson State Hospital
* Austin State Hospital
* Bryce Hospital
* Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
* Central State Hospital (Kentucky)
* Broughton Hospital
* Arkansas State Hospital
* Terrell State Hospital

West Coast|

* Agnews State Hospital
* Eastern Oregon State Hospital
* Eastern Washington State Hospital
* Mendocino State Hospital
* Napa State Hospital
* Oregon State Hospital
* Patton State Hospital

Outside the U.S.|

* Nova Scotia Hospital
* Callan Park Hospital for the Insane

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* United States

Other|

* Yale LUX

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