I visited Bryce around 1973 as a psychology student. I remember seeing a bleak ward. I think the patients in the ward wore hospital gowns, and they were quiet and docile. The word zombie comes to mind. On the grounds, the administrator who was showing us around greeting a patient who grinned widely because he was spoken to. The administrator cut him off by turning his back and telling us that this man had castrated himself. I was displeased, which is why this is my sharpest memory. I suspect most state mental hospitals were like this at the time. The lawsuit and pharmacology changed things greatly. Sorry about your relative being sent there. It doesn't happen involuntarily any more without a court order.