In this illustrated lecture, Dr. Kirkbride will discuss the remarkable origins, difficult histories and the current plight and promise of Kirkbride Hospitals for the Insane. Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, seventy-five "Kirkbride Plan" Asylums were constructed across the United States, Canada and Australia according to the vision of Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, a pivotal figure in the development of Psychiatry in the United States and a forebear of Robert Kirkbride. Find out more »