Dorothea Dix

and imprisoned also. Her property is taxed though she has no voice in electing representatives of the law.” (Daugherty, Sonia. Ten Brave Women: Anne Hutchinson, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Narcissa Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Susan B. Anthony, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Mary Lyon, Ida M. Tarbell, Eleanor Roosevelt: With Drawings by James Daugherty. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1953. Print.) The 19th amendment only passed by one vote by, Harry Burn (a young legislature), who changed his…

“If society will not admit of woman’s free development, then society must be remodeled”. This was Elizabeth Blackwell’s reasoning. Elizabeth Blackwell is known as the first woman to get a medical degree. She wanted all women to have equal rights like men. Elizabeth impacted the citizens of the United States of America because she was the first woman in the United States to get a medical degree, she was a teacher and a lecturer, and she trained nurses for the civil war. Elizabeth Blackwell was…

The treatment of mental patients has greatly improved since the 1960s, but it still is not perfect. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey and published in 1962. Chief Bromden, a schizophrenic patient in an insane asylum who pretends to be dumb and deaf to avoid confrontation, narrates what happens in the ward. When authority hating Randle McMurphy is committed to the ward, he notices the head nurse, Nurse Ratched, manipulates her patients to keep her authority, rather…

The United States of America gained a reputation throughout their world for equality. Tolerance of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press were revolutionary rights that the United States uniquely founded as a base for their nation. Compared to European countries, America was like no other. However, the women of the country were not equal and they did not have the same opportunity as males. After the American Revolution, “republican motherhood,” had rooted itself in the society of…

All of the perspectives were very interesting but if I had to choose one it would be the behavioral perspective. I found Ivan Pavlov and John B. Watson’s studies extremely interesting. In Abnormal Psychology by Deborah C. Beidel, Cynthia M. Bulik, and Melinda A. Stanley, it talks about Ivan Pavlov’s study on how he noticed his dogs salivating every time he brought out food for them and he paired with a bell until when he only rang the bell the dogs will salivate because they believed food was…

“ Congress shall make no law….abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” - United States Constitution 's 1st Amendment. States could not have been more right when they called for constitutional protection of individual liberties. It helped the creation of reform movements in the United States that led to an expansion of democratic ideals. In the extent of women and equal rights,…

Dorothea Dix was appointed as the superintendant of the female nurses in the Union Army (Hood, 2014) and established the Army Nurse Corp. These nurses were selfless and volunteered to even put themselves in harms way to take care of the soldier. In 1881, the…

Unfortunately, the influence of Asclepiades and Cicero eventually declined and the Roman physician, Celsus, reestablished the notion that madness was a punishment from the Gods. Aulus Cornelius Celsus (25BC-50AD) believed that “a sort of force” should be applied to the insane to scare the demonic spirit, coercing it to flee the body. His beliefs helped to strengthen the idea that some psychological disorders were caused by angry gods or spirits. His beliefs and writings were later used as…

Noelle Albert 1 May 2015 AP Lang- P5 Mrs. Rose Deinstitutionalization Draft That man with a cardboard sign standing on the median; the one who clings to his bike, coasting down Main Street with dozens of plastic bags hung precariously from its handlebars; those huddled under garbage bags on park benches to keep warm in the frigid winter air; families who drag themselves to soup kitchens as a last resort to avoid starvation. Common sights like these bring about curiosity and pity and blame. That…

hospitals were specifically reserved for individuals that had severe mental illnesses that at the time included “schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and major depression” (Torrey, Kennard, Eslinger, Lamb Pavle,2010). Due to Dorothea 's efforts, a survey done in 1880 in the United States indicated that “40,942 insane persons were in hospitals and asylums for the insane while finding only 397 insane persons in jails and prisons” (Torrey,et al.,2010) In 1955, the number of…