Harvard professor Alex Green's book "A Perfect Turmoil" profiles Walter Fernald, a 20th-century psychiatrist and educator who ...

As the superintendent of what was then known as the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded (now named for Fernald), he introduced a humanizing new standard of care (insisting, for instance ...

The facility opened in 1908 as the State Institution for the Feeble-Minded. Most of the first patients came from the Oregon State Hospital for the Insane. For decades, residents were officially ...