PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tardive Dyskinesia, Antipsychotic, Milieu Therapy
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Treatments for schizophrenia and other severe mental disorders. For much of human history, people with schizophrenia and other severe mental disorders were considered beyond help. Though schizophrenia is still extremely difficult to treat, the discovery of antipsychotic drugs has enabled people with the disorder to think clearly and profit from psychotherapies. Each of the models offers treatments for schizophrenia, and all have been influential at one time or another. For more than half of the 20th century, people with schizophrenia were institutionalized in public mental hospitals. Because patients failed to respond to traditional therapies, the primary goals of the hospitals were to restrain them and give them food, shelter, and clothing. The move toward institutionalization began in 1793 with the practice of. Hospitals were located in isolated areas to protect patients from the stresses of daily life and to offer them a healthful psychological environment.
