PSYA02H3 Chapter 15.1: PSYA02H3 Chapter 15.: Chapter 15 Psychological Disorders_

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Kyle Danielson

Document Summary

Asylums: residential facilities for the mentally ill. Goal: curing the patient"s" bodily afflictions that gave rise to their symptoms. Treatment often doesn"t meet modern standards of medical care and ineffective. Treatment style is to shock the person out of diseased state. E. g. draining 40% of the person"s total blood volume, throwing patients into snake pits. Society"s approach to treating mental illness changed because of: Dorothea dix, a schoolteacher in the united states advocate a new approach, called moral treatment. Patients being treated with kindness and decency. Able to roam the hospital halls and get outside for fresh air. But, still no effective treatment many mental illed were permanently incarcerated. By 1950s, over half a million people were in psychiatric hospitals. Chlorpromazine (called thorazine in the u. s. ) was introduced. People with schizophrenia and other disorders were able to function independently e. g. holding down jobs and living at home with their families led to widespread deinstitutionalization \o/