COMD 2050 Lecture : COMDnotes3
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Much of the anti-psychiatry movement comes from things done in this period. First biological psychiatry focused on finding the cause of mental illness under the microscope. This period is the second biological psychiatry a period that is highly therapeutic; psychiatrists introduce a large number of medical procedures to treat mental illness; treatments often dangerous and bizarre. Problem with this view in 1900 these weren"t the only who options available. Alternatives to custodial care and psychoanalysis in 1900: Hydrotherapy showers, warm baths, artificial drowning any use of water. Faradization the application of mild electric shocks to any part of a patient"s body; they realized the nervous system functioned in some sense but didn"t really understand it yet; widespread technique in. 19th century for not just mental illness but for other illnesses too. Alkaloids (think plant derived; they are naturally occurring chemicals in plants that are bases)
