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Madness and Disabilities: Interview with Geoffrey Reaume
Madness and Disabilities:
Interview with Geoffrey Reaume
Graeme Bacque, PSAT,
2004
About:
Geoffrey Reaume is Associate Professor
in the Critical Disability Studies Graduate
Program at York University, Toronto. He
earned his PhD in History in 1997 at the
University of Toronto. His doctoral dissertation
was published as "Remembrance
of Patients Past: Patient Life at
the Toronto Hospital for the Insane,
1870-1940" (Oxford University Press
Canada, 2000). He is a co-founder of
Psychiatric Survivor Archives, Toronto.
Geoffrey’s second book is called: “Lyndhurst:
Canada's First Rehabilitation Centre
for People with Spinal Cord Injuries,
1945-1998” (Montreal: McGill-Queen's
University Press, 2007).
Heilpädagogik online: Professor Reaume, you offer tours to the
wall surrounding the Queen Street Mental Health Centre in Toronto.
What's the story behind this wall?
Geoffrey Reaume: The history of the wall at the former Toronto
Insane Asylum, now the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, is
about a past where patients worked without pay to build the very
boundary walls that confined them, which average sixteen feet in
height around parts of a 26 acre property. The first brick boundary
walls were built in 1860 of which only two long sections of the
southern portion remain. Other walls were re-built in 1888-89 on
the eastern and western sides of the property, a large portion of
which remain standing today. Together, these three walls represent
a previously ignored history of patients' labour and exploitation
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