{"id":4969,"date":"2025-02-27T04:36:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T04:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2025-02-27T04:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T04:36:42","slug":"a-brief-history-of-riverview-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/a-brief-history-of-riverview-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief history of Riverview Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Before its forced downsizing and eventual closure in 2012, the site would house thousands of patients who would be treated and mistreated; sometimes subjected to lobotomies and forced sterilization. However, particularly after the Second World War, physicians put a newfound emphasis on socialization and community, as well as psychotherapy rather than surgery.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These articles cover the history of Riverview Psychiatric Hospital, in Coquitlam, BC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tricitiesdispatch.com\/riverview-essondale-artifacts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/tricitiesdispatch.com\/riverview-essondale-artifacts\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tricitiesdispatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1920scoq.png\" width=\"778\" height=\"472\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Before its forced downsizing and eventual closure in 2012, the site would house thousands of patients who would be treated and mistreated; sometimes subjected to lobotomies and forced sterilization. However, particularly after the Second World War, physicians put a newfound emphasis on socialization and community, as well as psychotherapy rather than surgery.&#8221; These articles cover &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/a-brief-history-of-riverview-hospital\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A brief history of Riverview Hospital<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,31,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-psychology","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4989,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/4989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}