Walter Mayer

Walter Mayer

male, 52 years old
Doping controversy, World Anti-Doping Agency, international olympic committee, blood doping violations, vasaloppet, Vasaloppet winner…psychiatrichospital
Walter Mayer (born March 17 1957) is an Austrian Cross-country skier and coach. He won the Vasaloppet in 1980, and finished second in 1992. As a...
Vladimir Bukovsky

Vladimir Bukovsky

male, 66 years old (United Kingdom)
political dissident, dissident, Human Rights, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky, Soviet dissident, Russian…psychiatric imprisonment, psychiatrichospital
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (b. December 30 1942) is a notable former Soviet political dissident, author and an activist. He was one of the...
Mao Hengfeng

Mao Hengfeng

female
Human rights activist, psychiatrichospital, Human Rights, women's rights, China's family planning regulations, Chinese women's rights activist
Mao Hengfeng is a women's rights and human rights activist in the People's Republic of China. A mother of twins, she was reportedly dismissed from...
Shazia Khalid

Shazia Khalid

female
rape victim, Nicholas Kristof, Bugti, raped, Baluchistan, Balochistan…psychiatrichospital
Shazia Khalid is a Pakistani medical doctor. On the night of January 2, 2005 she was allegedly raped by Captain Hammad, an officer of the Pakistan...

Adolf Wölfli

male, deceased (1930)
painter, Swiss, artist, art brut, Waldau, From Bern…psychiatrichospital
Adolf Wölfli (occasionally spelt Adolf Woelfli or Adolf Wolfli) was a prolific Swiss artist who is regarded as one of the foremost artists in the A...
Liu Xinjuan

Liu Xinjuan

female
activist, psychiatrichospital, shanghai, chinese, Human Rights in China, Sino-Russian Friendship Building
Liu Xinjuan is a Chinese land reform activist from Shanghai. She has been forcibly committed to psychiatric hospitals five times in three years...
Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb

male, deceased (1834)
Christ's Hospital Old Blue, edmonton, Inner Temple, Romanticism, Essayist, children's writer…psychiatrichospital, Christ's Hospital
Charles Lamb (London, 10 February 1775 - Edmonton, 27 December 1834) was an English essayist with Welsh heritage, best known for his "Essays of...
Joey Ramone

Joey Ramone

male, deceased (2001)
musician, American, American punk rock singer, ramones, Songwriter, Punk rock musician…psychiatrichospital
Joey Ramone (May 19 1951 – April 15 2001), born as Jeffry Ross Hyman, was a vocalist and songwriter best known for his work in the legendary punk ro...
James Henry Pullen

James Henry Pullen

male, deceased (1916)
prince albert, British, psychiatrichospital, autistic savant, asylum, colchester…Royal Earlswood Hospital
James Henry Pullen, also known as the Genius of Earlswood Asylum, was a British autistic savant, probably suffering from aphasia. James Henry...
Camillo Golgi

Camillo Golgi

male, deceased (1926)
craters of the Moon named after them, central nervous system, Italian, scientist, physician, psychiatrichospital
Camillo Golgi (July 7, 1843 - January 21, 1926) was an Italian physician and scientist. Golgi was born in Corteno now Corteno Golgi, province of...