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org/a-beautiful-mind-the-history-of-the-treatment-of-mental-illness/
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Asylums, electro-shock therapy, skull drills, pills, exorcisms, and isolation are all varied methods that have been
used to try and cure a person of mental illness
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Throughout history, there have been radical changes in how the mentally ill are treated and cared for; most of
these occurred because of changing societal views and knowledge of mental illness
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In the ancient world cultures, a well-known belief was that mental illness was “the result of supernatural
phenomena”; this included phenomena from “demonic possession” to “sorcery” and “the evil eye”
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Ancient persians also believed that illnesses were caused by possession but used other methods to cure people
who were sick and practiced precautionary measures like personal hygiene and purity of the mind and body
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During the 5th and 3rd centuries B
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The philosopher and physician, Hippocrates, discovered that illnesses come from “natural occurrences in the
body”
As Hippocrates was studying mental illness, he stepped away from the superstitious beliefs and towards the
medical aspect of it
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These imbalances were in the “four essential fluids”; blood, phlegm, bile, and black bile which produce “unique
personalities of individuals
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One treatment that Hippocrates
advocated was changing the occupation and/or environment of the patient
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It was believed that “a mentally
ill member implies a hereditary, disabling condition in the bloodline” threatening the family’s “identity as an
honorable unit”
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How will you use this source in your paper?

This source backs up some of the information that my other sources have also mentioned
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Analysis: How does this source help answer my research question?
It tells the history of mental illness has impacted society throughout history and the changes that have occurred
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"A Beautiful Mind: The History of the Treatment of Mental Illness
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Type of Source: Database
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In the mid-nineteenth century, women were judged by the standard of True Womanhood
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Ironically, biological mothering, so central to a woman's
identity as a True Woman, was considered in the nineteenth century to be a cause of insanity
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One in eleven women diagnosed as "insane" in the 1850s reportedly
suffered a nervous breakdown either during or after pregnancy
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Poor women had more children and felt more
acutely the strain and burden of caring for them
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At the end of the nineteenth century, medicine began to adopt a more scientific approach, but medical
literature about women's mental illness remained unscientific
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Researchers postulated that unfeminine activities caused uterine derangement which in turn caused mental
illness
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The belief that an insane
woman had something wrong with her "female organs" resulted in treatments like electrical stimulation of the
uterus and prescribed weight gain to prevent the ovaries from slipping out of place
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This solution served to make
being ill sufficiently aversive so that women would readily return to their roles as wives and mothers
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By the beginning of the twentieth century, women began to see themselves not only as wives and mothers but
also as sexual beings
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By the 1930s, psychoanalytic theory was a vital force in U
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psychiatry
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Even her eventual desire to bear a
child was seen as a compensation for her lack of a penis
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Freudian
psychology defined both narcissism and masochism as particularly feminine disorders
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These psychoanalytic explanations of a woman's psyche served to
stigmatize and condemn independent and professional women at the time
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Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment historically have been used as means of social control in the lives of women
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As late as 1986, in the Revised
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders developed by the American Psychiatric Association, two
disorders linked to a woman's demeanor and to her female body were still under consideration for inclusion:
Late Luteal Phase Dysphoric Disorder (characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, and affective lability
during a specific phase of the menstrual cycle) and Self-defeating Personality Disorder (a variant of the old
female "masochism")
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By
the late 1980s, researchers and practitioners began to recognize and acknowledge that a large number of women
being treated for mental illness were in fact experiencing symptoms as a result of sexual abuse trauma
perpetrated by a trusted family member, male or female, or by a teacher, baby sitter, or clergy member
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Some women repressed the memory of their trauma involuntarily, thus retaining their role as
good daughters within the traditional family structure
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Evaluation: Whether or not this source is helpful or reliable
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It is reliable because it has been checked and put into the school databases
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Analysis: How does this source help answer my research question?
This article shows the improvement of how women with mental illnesses has improved over the course of
history
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MLA Citation:
Harris, Maxine
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" The Reader's Companion to U
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Women's History, edited by
Wilma Mankiller, et al
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schizophrenia (whose victims hallucinate and withdraw from society), bipolar disorder (which causes frequent
mood swings from mania to despair and back again) and severe personality disorders (a catch-all term for
people who behave in various abnormal ways)
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In the West the asylum movement, which began in the first half of the 19th century (and was the inspiration for
giant hospitals like St Elizabeths), offered a combination of rest and restraint and held out the promise of
scientific cures for those afflicted
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In practice, asylums mainly served to keep the mentally ill off society's back
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The hospital's grounds still contain the unmarked graves of 25,000 who died there
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The Kennedy family's personal experience played
an important part in the re-evaluation of mental illness
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Now most countries try to strike a better balance between what
psychiatrists think is in the interests of their patient and the patient's own wishes
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How will you use this source in your paper?
This source is reliable because it came from the databases and some of the information I have found before
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Analysis: How does this source help answer my research question?
The source describes the treatment of mental disabled people throughout the 19th century
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" The Economist, 11 July 2015, p
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Later, hospices, then
asylums developed to house them
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People with mental disorders have always been recognized as different and treated in various ways
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Early medicine men,
considering such individuals to be possessed by demons, introduced a technique called trephination
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Many other
civilizations independently developed such a procedure
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The Church had a different interpretation of people with mental illness, viewing such disorders as evidence of
sorcery or possession by a demon
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However, some viewed the mentally ill as having a divine gift, perhaps
like the gift of tongues
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Some of the troubadours or traveling musicians sang of tragic love madness
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Some German communities cast out the mentally
ill and mentally retarded by whipping them out of town or pointing them in the direction of other villages
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Churches tried to blame the plague and heresy was convinced that possessed people were the causes of their
difficulties
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The next 300 years were characterized by terrible
witch-hunts designed to seize those thought to be possessed by the devil
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People actually believed that witches existed and that they
befriended the devil, brewed strange mixtures of toads, serpents, and poisons in cauldrons, rode broomsticks,
and brought curses and plagues upon the earth
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The treatment of mental illness deteriorated in the late Middle Ages and remained poor through the eighteenth
century
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Evaluation: Whether or not this source is helpful or reliable
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I will you this source to
point out the treatment of people with mental illness throughout the course of history
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It shows the changes that have been made because of
these times
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" Science and Its Times, edited by Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer, vol
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U
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History in Context,
link
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2017
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