CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Oral Stage, Genital Stage, Puberty
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Legal definition of insanity: not knowing the nature and quality of the act. Psychiatric definition is different from the legal definition. 1750, they treated mentally ill by: elements in you in the blood: whipping or beating: to try to get them to be submissive, starve: they get weak, the fight goes out of them. Bethlehem -> bedlam, inmates of bethlehem hospital were kept in big rooms with stalls, got chained or restrained and had straw all over the ground. Some people got better, if they recover, they recover, if they don"t, they don"t. )t was a public institution that would allow people to come in on. 1788: king george iii, started to act insane (regency crisis), george started to see visions, screaming and yelling, uncontrollable. Finally they tie him to his bed and before psychiatrists), they beat the king, they also starve the king. Duke of york a metabolic disease that is treatable.
