Abnormalization Vs. Modern Day Psychiatric Treatments

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2. Treatments during institutionalization were considered to be cruel and unusual methods compared to modern day psychiatric treatments. They included trephination, bloodletting and purging, isolation and asylums, insulin coma therapy, metrazol therapy, and lobotomy (Hussung, 2016). Bloodletting and purging were seen as useful for mental illnesses because it was thought to let out impurities in the body that caused imbalances in the ill person's system. Isolation and asylums became popular in medieval times. This is where most of the unsanitary and inhuman parts of institutionalization was. In the 1920's, doctors believed that fluctuations in a person's sugar levels caused mental illnesses. They would purposely bring their levels low to help

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