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When it opened in 1921, the Weyburn Mental Hospital was hailed as the last and largest asylum in the British Commonwealth. Managing Madness co-author Erika Dyck writes that in the beginning, it was a symbol of both progress and a bygone era, embodying a set of contradictions from the outset.
Dyck is a Canada Research Chair in the History of Health and Social Justice, and a history professor at the University of Saskatchewan. She spoke with the program about the history of the mental hospital in Weyburn, which was demolished in 2009.
Included in the conversation are the institution’s early decades, Tommy Douglas’ Weyburn connection, forays into psychedelic assisted therapy in the 1950s, and eventual de-institutionalization.
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