Health Sciences 3624A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Padded Cell, The Asylum, Claustrophobia

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3624A/B
• Professor: Marnie Wedlake

Document Summary

Bbc - a mental history of the madhouse. High royds in yorkshire, and was a village in its own way - it held over 2500 patients. Many patients were just inadequate and couldn"t cope - but didn"t show signs of mental illness. They thought that they were doing the right thing by their patients, but were doing the right thing by their town. They were dumped there because they weren"t wanted. Many asylums contained people that didn"t have issues with their mental state - but their families abandoned them. Some ended up in the asylum for a very long time. But many of the treatments could be done outside of the hospital today. Joan was committed to care for claustrophobia and agoraphobia. The beds were very close to one another w/ 30 beds in one dormitory. She was there for about 30 years. There was nothing wrong with a lot of the patients. The asylum life was empty and repetitive.