Treatment can include a whole range of things, from a long talk and picture viewing with a Doctor, to a little juice, to an icepick in the upper orbit of the eye socket, It always depends on the happenstances.

Actually, I don't see a med window in the hall.. Unless the assumption is that it was in the door..
I can understand a nurse's station being enclosed thusly, as it would keep the clients out of the paperwork, phones, and the nurse's hair, not to mention the omnipresent coffeepot..
Looking at the setup, this looks like it would have been in either a security ward, or, looking at the handrail, possibly, blind area.

While it is true that Walmart has done some bad things, Dixmont's demise shouldn't be blamed on them.. The decay began almost 20 years before..
The buildings were in extremely sorry shape, and the asbestos wasn't very safe either.. I hate to say it, but vandals had a hand in it, as well as Mother Nature, and the people who salvaged the doors, windows, etc.
It still saddens me to see the old girl go.

wow... just wow.
I like the way you stretch your exposures, Mr. Mott, It brings out the detail..
As well as doing strange things to anyone in the frame.
Oh, yes, about the 'experiments' A lot were early attempts at making new treatments for the insane. A lot were basically wrong, and were misunderstood by laymen, thus hey became 'sadistic' and 'torture'. A lot were wrong, and a lot of people were hurt, but the controls we have now, nor the experiences gained from all of these older therapies, would be around except for this barbaric system of experimentation.
Look at the history of the lobotomy...

Every time I run into this painting, I freak out. I usually delve in Dixmont at night, with a muffled light, and these guys, if they aren't life sized, are damn close...
It always seems to happen after I hear the door banging, a freaky enough experience in itself..

A closer view of the exit from Hell.

Nice play with the light.

Oops, as I was about to say before I got on my soapbox..
Very nice work, Mr Motts, I like the way the light merges in the hall, and the greenery at the end, like an exit from hell.

The paint in the rooms is different from the stuff in the halls, more durable, tho keep the inmates from tearing it off / eating it. I think it was an enamel based paint used in the rooms, and a latex in the corridors.
But I may be backwards on that :)

Actually, it was a bad porno flick... Google "beyond the green door"

Naaah, it's a whatsamabobbin used in the '30s to connect to a bank of doohickeys that prevented oscillating back flow into the Cumezekyama so the whatchamacallit wouldn't pop the thingee into a overpressure. Simple science boys and girls!
These were designed to prevent the nasty eyebrow thing from happening!
(And they make a hell of a cup of coffee too!)

I visited Dixmont a week before they began moving in the earth movers... I spent 10 hours and 3 1GB memory sticks wandering the halls, tunnels, crevices, and crannies.
The strange things: I brought 3 flashlights in with me, 2- 3 cell maglights, and an old fashioned incandescent 2 cell in case of emergency. The maglights died extremely quickly, both were dead after an hour, and the old flashlight didn't even turn on. Fortunately, my 3LED keychain light led me to my cache of spare batteries, unfortunately, those too were drained. I bought the batteries an hour before I got to Dixmont... The LED light was my only source of illumination until I was picked up, and it was waning by 5AM. The pictures didn't come out either, the memory sticks were empty, as if formatted. since then I have used the camera, and all 3 sticks, and have never had a problem. The maglights are also healthy, as were the batteries I bought. weird.
I'll miss the old lady, I wish I had my own pics of her. Thanks, Mr Motts.

I can almost see the 'Hammer Films' logo over it.

The buildings have a mystique and a power one doesn't get in modern architecture. The beauty comes from the uniqueness that they have.
They are stern, and a bit scary looking perhaps, but this is usually due to age. When they were built, many were originally showcases.

They did this kind of 'improvement' to my hospital in 1997. The ceiling, if they did it that way, whenever they did it is probably suspended by thin wires that are attached to hooks screwed into the original woodwork.
We petitioned, and got the hospital president to cease the renovation, and restore it to it's former glory, a simple fix. Just tear down the drop ceiling and fill in the holes, then repaint or relaquer. Still a bloody shame, however.

A roundabout is some poor sociopathic traffic engineer's revenge on society for all life's ill that have befallen them.. I have been stuck on one of those in London for 20 minutes.. See "National Lampoon's European Vacation"
Anyhoo, I can envision some poor patient getting stuck walking around in circles for hours in one of these...

Well, As a home, I think it would take JK Rowling's bank account to keep it heated, however, with it's long halls, it would be a hell of a place to ride a bicycle inside of, not to mention the other things one couldn't live without, such as a bowling alley, or an inside skeet shooting gallery! :)

Gah! The colours, the colours!

These things were everywhere in my younger days.. They spat powder OR soft soap.

They also made it easier to find the toilet when it got dark :)

And, my 25th Birthday was almost exactly between the 2 dates (11/16-11/29)