PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Frontal Lobe, Deinstitutionalisation, Syphilis
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People with mental illness were generally considered witches. The first measure of abnormality: dunking test, was a witch if woman did not drown. Lunacy trial: used in england to determine person"s sanity: conducted to protect the mentally impaired, strange behaviour is especially linked to physical illness. Patients with psychological disorder were abundant in asylums, deemed lunatics Asylums: forerunners of mental hospitals, refuges established in western europe in 15th century to confine and provide for mentally ill, established for confinement and care of mentally ill, many were beggars and disturbed people. Bethlehem and other early asylums: bedlam: contraction and popular name for a mental hospital. Scene or place involving wild uproar or confusion: benjamin rush: consider as father of american psychiatry believed that mental disorder was caused by excess of blood in brain. Believed that lunatics could be cured by being frightened. Someone took this too far and put them in a coffin into water almost killing.
