SOWK 2035 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: If These Walls Could Talk, Patients Association, Electroconvulsive Therapy
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1001 queen st west; used to have a wall that surrounded the mental institution. Walls built 1860-1889 by the patients of the asylum: preventing them from escaping. Expected to work, so they didn"t have a say in the manner. Part of their treatment = building their own prison. 999 queen st west: had a really bad stigma (parents would threaten to send their kids there when they were being bad). Address changed to 1001 queen st west to remove this stigma and start fresh. Mid nineteenth century opening of an asylum = an upgrade to how mad people were treated before. Jails/prisons were overflowing with insane people and so they needed another spot. Realizing that jails were not a suitable space for the insane. Toronto had central heating in the asylum; big step up from other places because they believed that insane people didn"t feel heat/cold. Overcrowded, no more morals, more about order than treatment.
