Psychiatric Hospitals in Serbia (38 pics)

Wow...very great photography and very disturbing all at the same time.

@ Steveo: You said it, man.
@ Croat: Don't be so angry. No reason for that crap anymore. Listen to Steveo.
@ everybody else: Do you really believe everything you read on the net? In regards to this subject, the well known MSNBC has something to say also: just go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26
315386/ns/dateline_nbc/ and check out some more dreadful pictures taken from some of mental institutions. And while you there, check the picture No.1, taken in Special Institute for Children and Youth. Awful picture of 75 year old boy...

Wait...did I say 75 year old boy? Yes, I did...but, this guy on the picture doesn't look like he is child or youth - does it mean that the picture is taken on some different place? God forbid, press (etc) wouldn't lie to us.

Don't believe without thinking it first. Yes, those people and children exist. Yes, there is someone to blame. But you can't say the whole nation is bad. Not one single nation in the world is bad. Individuals are bad.

Not even Serbs or Croats

There aren't even words to describe just how horrible this really is....

Don't get me wrong either-people should definitely see these kinds of photos, although they still can't really express these people's true suffering- those who haven't been confined in a mental insitution just can't imagine what it's like.

Much less in a place like this...

that's not a hospital...that is hell. why so many children? Pray for them all. God help them.

depressing...

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i almost cried , realy sad to see those people ....

sad & depressing

i dont have words

many countries have the same problems of not only the "Serbian" I believe that they are not from serbia

@ EarlpitsII- Now you know why Hitler tried to kill all of the mentally handicapped?

Are you sick? Spineless people look the other way while tyrants do such deeds. An ignorant comment from an uninformed ass. There's more to those pictures than you'll ever know. Do the research, if it's not beyond your mental capacity.

QUE TRISTE

Seventeenth picture, the man showing the top of is skull, what's the matter??
It's creepy.

Poor people, mentally illness are terrible.

These photos are taken out of context. The photographs were taken in 1 institution in Kosova/o and 2 in Serbia. My full statement from my website reads:

"Between 1999 and 2002, I visited three psychiatric institutions while living and working in Kosova and Serbia on a long term project, Between The Lines, on the aftermath of the NATO conflict with Serbia. The work from the institutions, a story on it's own, is also an integral part of this bigger narrative of conflict, division, difference and exclusion.
Having spent four years teaching a photography class to people with psychiatric disorders in London prior to this, psychiatric institutions and patients were not alien to me and I was aware of the fluctuating behavioural patterns. What I found in Kosova and Serbia was a far cry form contemporary practice in London.

When I first visited the institutions they were hidden from the gaze of the general public and came as a shock to Serbs when they were exposed. Money, during the years of the Milosevic regime had drained away, leaving filthy conditions, contagious diseases, lack of medical care and rehabilitation and a failure to provide oversight due to an unmotivated low paid staff struggling with their own economic difficulties.

The worst aspect was the total lack of care and stimulation and the high number of people who should never have been in these places. People with physical disabilities, (the boy with no legs was a victim of a car accident and orphaned), downs syndrome, a high proportion of Roma or children whose misfortune was to have been born in the institutions. By living in this environment of deprivation, with little stimulation or compassion they start to display repetitive rocking behaviour and self-injury.

By 2002, on my final visits, money had been raised in a public campaign of awareness in Serbia and with the help of a number of NGO’s conditions had improved. For me, after the initial shock at the conditions and total lack of care, it became clear that the patients from all ethnic backgrounds were able to display more community, affection and care with each other, than the sad situation that their "sane" countrymen were displaying to each other on the outside."

pff

Terrible pictures. Poor people who have no hope, no future. Thanks for the added info George Georgiou. Hopefully things will improve.

@Earlpits Sucks

You seem to not understand that I do not care about these people in the slightest, nor do I care that you think I am heartless. C'est la vie.

If you didn't care what people thought you wouldn't come back to read everyone's replies.

Nope, that's their own shame. As popular as it is to do, you can't blame everything on those pesky Americans.

George Georgiou,
George Georgiou,
Louie,
Louie,
Louie,
Ghnosto,

@Earlpits II

Since you care not what people think of you, then we shouldn't expect a response to this.

I would bet that your life is not worth bragging about, so your lack of interest in other humans would make sense. So chin, chin and hold out for your next series of boob photos.

C'est la vie.

THIS IS CALLED PROPAGANDA!I have been studying types of propaganda used by NATO 1999 against Serbia.That is way innocent people were bombed,this pictures and many others were published to convince the whole world that Serbs are criminals and Milosevic is murder.Same thing happened few years later in Iraq,also this time Saddam Hussein was represented as a brutal murder.If somebody is interested I have a real evidence of propaganda like this used against Serbia and their people.I was there it is a country that is going to become part of Europe Union in 2014 year with Croatia.So why would European Union accept that country if something like this is happening?!

"Living is easy with eyes closed" Stawberry Fields Forever, The Beatles

Its easy living in the USA pretending that these things do not happen around the world. Its very unfortunate the pain that people around the world have to endure for their entire lives without ever loving or being loved in return.

Sad.

@EarlpitsII Sucks,

You also seem to lack very basic reading comprehension. I said that I do not care that I may appear to be heartless. This simply does not impact my life or anything related to it in the slightest ergo, I do not care about these people. Just because someone is sick does not make it my burden to care for them.

that top of the head looks fucked

Broughton,

respect

fuck the croats and serbs MTF!!! thats fuck up fucken goverment thats all they f!! care for bullshit and not for the most important things like a human soul thats been misstreated and racist against thats some bullshit theres some kids that doesnt even fucken belong there if they wre to be treated thet rite way and with the rite fucken care and medication fuck the freewolrd!!!

Mental disorders like alzeheimers are the scourge of human existence. Cancer, is at least merciful that it doesn't take your mind. To live without the capacity to remember how to wipe your ass or recognize your loved ones is the definition of hell.

Sad... just sad

This is really really sad, it seems like there are more than just mental problems going on here. But, we will never know.

croat,
You Croat know very well that Serbs dosnt look like people on this pictures. This is not European faces at all! Sick liar

croat sram te bilo, i ti si srbin samo to ne znas pizda ti materina

these pics were taken during the "war" in and after '99, these people lost their families, lost parts of their bodies and regreted surviving, its reasonable why they lost their mental stability during that American bombing.
As a Serbian girl i take these very disturbing, but world should see and know what they did to us. This was just 15 years ago people... Very, very painful...