Psychiatric hospital

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…

A once connected community of rich relations among one another and constant interaction with numerous people throughout the day has simply transformed into a consumption of screens, gadgets and isolation. A sharp decrease in social connectedness over the past 20 years has alarmed scientists at Duke University that describe social connectedness as a crucial factor in the way that humans were designed to function. The toll it takes on humans is the drastic increase in vulnerability to mental…

Individuals with mental health problems are often times feared by the community; this fear reached an all-time high in New York City in 1999. Kendra Webdale was waiting for her subway train to arrive, when an individual by the name of Andrew Goldstein approached her and asked her if she knew the time. Shortly after, without any warning the man pushed Kendra onto an upcoming train and died instantly. It was later found that Mr. Goldstein had schizophrenia and at the time was not taking his…

in the film, McMurphy steals a bus from the hospital and takes himself and the other patients on a fishing trip, both to have some fun and to spite Nurse Ratched. Afterwards, McMurphy learns that there is not a set date that he will get out of the hospital, but that he might have to stay there indefinitely. After realizing this, he plans to escape with the help of a quiet Native American patient that he calls…

undrinkable water. The ‘dangerous’ patients were tied together with ropes. The patients were made to sit for most of the day on hard benches with the least protection from the cold. Waste was all around the eating areas and rats crawled all around the hospital. The nurses behaved repulsively and cruelly, telling the patients to shut up, and beating them if they did not. The bath water was ice-cold and buckets of it were poured over their…

Is it justified to incarcerate an individual for having a uncontrollable health condition? Should people be punished for dispositions that are hereditary and uninhibited? More and more mentally ill individuals are getting arrested and being put into jail instead of getting the proper help so they can coexist in society. As soon as an mentally Ill individual is jailed they have no true hope of getting better and most likely get worse due to the harsh environment jail imposes. The individuals…

late 1800’s to early 1900’s. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman critiques the traditional healing concepts for psychiatric treatment in a symbolic way using the physicians, the environment, and the character’s hallucinations. Through the characters of the physicians in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Gilman critiques the traditional treatment plans for psychiatric issues in the hopes of possibly changing the treatment methods of the 1800’s. The main character in “The Yellow Wallpaper”…

The next issue that is shown in everyday life and in Shutter Island, is how society deals with mental illness. How it was dealt with in the past is shown in Shutter Island. Ashecliffe Is the name of the hospital which is on the island. The island is far away from the mainland as the hospitals for dangerous patients who are also prisoners. They are patients because they are suffering from severe conditions of mental illness, but have also committed horrible crimes. These patients are sent to…

It is a fairly broad question to ask how people obtained these mental illnesses. There are a multitude of reasons. It is rather hard to determine internal causes in comparison to the environmental factories. Much of that is speculation on terms of the therapist. However whatever internal causes that have been discovered so far are critical towards finding more about how mental illness occurs. For example, autism has low brain growth and connectivity in the channels of the brain. Depression has a…

Foucault rightfully regards the appearance of the first asylums a significant step forward for the whole world. It meant that the medical community accepted psychological diseases as a medical problem and basically announced that it was going to try to treat it. Madness did not seem like some kind of curse or other superstitious phenomenon nobody knew what to do with anymore. This point is delivered well by the author in the first part of the article. When Faucault describes how the asylums…