Leros Psychiatric Hospital

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Leros Psychiatric Hospital. Filmed in 1995. The "Psychiatric Hospital" of Leros was founded in 1959. The purpose was to contain all psychiatric patients from all Greek mental health instituitions, who were deemed untreatable, to one single confinement space. In the early 80's Leros' asylum has received significant journalistic attention. In September of 1989, the London Observer printed a front page account of the hospital, describing it as a "concentration camp". Many of Leros' patients have been there for decades...

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