Pushed to the outskirts of town just as the mentally ill are often pushed to the margins of society, the Attacus Brooks Psychiatric Pavilion at Fincher Park attends to the needs
of those for whom the realities of the modern world prove too taxing. The neighborhood of Fincher Park quietly accepts the presence of the hospital, but it’s an attitude of
resignation rather than welcome. The low- to middle-income neighborhood is one of the quieter ones in town, and a sometime destination for those who have lived in St.
Jude’s all their life.
Background
Attacus Brooks was once an affluent philanthropist in Newcastle and a frequent contributor to Hohenheim College and its extensive library. Something happened in the
relationship between Mr. Brooks and then-president of Hohenheim Arnold Brewster, putting an obstacle in the path of their friendship and drawing a close to their professional relationship. Thereafter, Brooks, who had a reputation as an eccentric, opened his own research institute, which eventually became the hospital it is today once it started practicing methodology along with its theoretical curriculum.
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