PSYC 3390 Lecture Notes - Dependent Personality Disorder, Pearson Education, Moral Treatment
17 Sep 2013
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# of pages (including this one): 10 (for instructor s use) In the past, people believed the mentally ill to not be worthy of fair treatment. We believed that the mentally disturbed were really witches and so we punished and often killed them for being such. (butcher et al, 2010, p. 37). Madhouses came out to hold those who were mentally disturbed. Inmates, or patients, were not treated as humans at all; they were treated like beasts; with little concern for appropriate care, jail as homes, and begging for charity. Finally, in the nineteenth century, alienists gained control of the asylums and added moral management into the medical procedures. (butcher et al, 2010, p. In my opinion, schizophrenia is a mental illness in which the behaviour manifests itself as crime. Schizophrenics are no more likely to commit a crime or be violent than other member of a community, unless they are abusing drugs and/or alcohol. (centre for violence prevention,
