CRM 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Erving Goffman, Total Institution, Moral Treatment
4 Apr 2016
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Prior to the mid-1800s, mentally ill were put in places that were terms asylums". Patients forced to sleep in cages because they were seen as violent, animalistic. Because they weren"t though to be humans, there wasn"t any emphasis on basic necessities of life: food, clothing, slept in the dirt. Because patients could survive in these conditions for many years, it reaffirmed the belief that these individuals weren"t normal / human = deserving of abuse. Moving closer to the 1900s: there were individuals who decided they would do experimental type of. Treatments more resembled torture and abuse: e. g. tranquilizer chair. Individual was immobilized in the chair, eyesight blocked, doused with ice-cold water: hydrotherapy use of water. Excite the person"s sensation: rotary chair chair in which the patient was strapped, turned on its axis at a very high velocity = creates intense pressure to the brain. The idea was to restore equilibrium to someone who suffered from disequilibrium.
