A state-run mental health center in Springfield named for the past 55 years for a psychiatrist who used torturous treatment methods and collaborated in the imprisonment of women has been renamed for the woman who helped expose him.
In June 1860, Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard was committed to the Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane in Jacksonville by her husband, a Calvinist minister, for, in part, publicly
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