PSYC 4039 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Common Cold, Industrial Revolution, Hydrotherapy
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The snake pit: mary jane ward wrote it, 20th century- fox, 1949, things to look for in the movie. Depiction of institutions and the ward system. Asylums 2009: now there is about 500,000 people in mental hospital. It isn"t that the mentally ill got better, it is the deinstitutionalization that let them out: around 20-25% of people in us prisons are mentally ill, a lot of mentally ill people are homeless. Frontline: focus on mentally ill people in prison who are released. Most of them end up back in prison. Historical analysis of prevalence and incidence of severe mental illness in the us. During the period between 1800 and 1950 many psychiatrists, scientists, and bureaucrats made the claim that mental illness appeared to be increasing at an alarming rate. The distinction between prevalence ad incidence: prevalence is the percent or proportion of a population that has a disorder at some point in time or during some interval of time.
