Historical perspectives of the treatment of mental health
Angela Shaw
PT 300
July 21st 2017
Harold Collins Abstract
Before Philppe perspectives towards mental health varied based on cultural and personal beliefs. These cultural and personal beliefs can affect one who is experiencing a mental health crisis willingness to seek professional help or if willing, affects their ability to receive the correct treatment for whatever mental illness they may be dealing with. Communities diagnoses the mentally ill as being possessed, cursed by god or evil therefore, the treatment these individuals received were often times inhumane. Throughout their time, mental health advocates like Dr. Philippe Pinel, Dorothea Dix, and Clifford Beers brought dignity …show more content…
Before trailblazers like Philippe Pinel, Dorthea Dix and Clifford Beers began making reforms to the practice of mental health, treatments involved inhumane approaches such as Trepanning, insulin coma therapy, hydrotherapy, chemically induced seizures and mesmerism. Thanks to Pineal, Dix and Beers, the treatment of mental health now involves humane treatments such as therapy, drug therapy and treatment groups.
Philippe Pinel was a physician and was the first advocate moral and humane treatment of mental health. His approach for treatment was heavily based on physiclogical and environmental needs. Patients should have exposure to open air, have the ability to exercise, practice good hygiene and have one on one interaction with doctors. Pinel worked at behavior modifications and separated the different classifications of mental illnesses to ensure that patients had the adequate care for the mental disorder they were suffering from. “I come in the present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of miserable, the Desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of being sunk to a condition from which unconcerned world would start with real horror.” Dorthea
Angela Shaw
PT 300
July 21st 2017
Harold Collins Abstract
Before Philppe perspectives towards mental health varied based on cultural and personal beliefs. These cultural and personal beliefs can affect one who is experiencing a mental health crisis willingness to seek professional help or if willing, affects their ability to receive the correct treatment for whatever mental illness they may be dealing with. Communities diagnoses the mentally ill as being possessed, cursed by god or evil therefore, the treatment these individuals received were often times inhumane. Throughout their time, mental health advocates like Dr. Philippe Pinel, Dorothea Dix, and Clifford Beers brought dignity …show more content…
Before trailblazers like Philippe Pinel, Dorthea Dix and Clifford Beers began making reforms to the practice of mental health, treatments involved inhumane approaches such as Trepanning, insulin coma therapy, hydrotherapy, chemically induced seizures and mesmerism. Thanks to Pineal, Dix and Beers, the treatment of mental health now involves humane treatments such as therapy, drug therapy and treatment groups.
Philippe Pinel was a physician and was the first advocate moral and humane treatment of mental health. His approach for treatment was heavily based on physiclogical and environmental needs. Patients should have exposure to open air, have the ability to exercise, practice good hygiene and have one on one interaction with doctors. Pinel worked at behavior modifications and separated the different classifications of mental illnesses to ensure that patients had the adequate care for the mental disorder they were suffering from. “I come in the present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of miserable, the Desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of being sunk to a condition from which unconcerned world would start with real horror.” Dorthea