Posted

Dec 8th 2009

Mood

Hey, didn't i sayt ignore this? Well, this is my homework and i don't have a flash drive so i'm positng it hwere. Interested in Insane Asylums? Then read it. Other that that, go away.

Bucket 1- Events leading up to…
Mini-Bucket 1- History of Mental Institutions until c. 1900
~ Many were housed within jails with criminals
~Patents were cramped together in small rooms
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Mini-Bucket 2- Treatment of people prior c. 1900
~ Submerging patients in ice baths until they lost consciousness
~Beating the “crazy” out of them
~Exorcizing “demons”
~Drilling holes in the skull
~Bleeding the “bad blood” out of them
Mini-Bucket 3- Social view of mentally ill patients until c. 1900
~Colonial people thought of them as “lunatics” and believed that insanity was caused by a full moon.
~Many people did not want to view “lunatics” in society. “Out of sight, out of mind”
~People displayed interest in the mental health system after the Civil War
~People put anyone they didn’t wish to deal with in asylums
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