Writer Colleen Rowan Kosinski asks: What mental health treatments were there in the 19th century? Great question! I had to pull out the history books for this one. (Which I happen to enjoy, BTW.) The history of mental health treatment is not a pretty one. Prior to the mid 1800′s, people with mental illness were [...]
Archive for January 16th, 2012
Mental Health Monday–Psychiatry, A History
Posted in Mental Health Monday, psychiatry, Writing, tagged Benjamin Rush, Dorothea Dix, Emil Kraepelin, history of psychiatry, insane asylums, mental illness, Moral Treatment, Phillippe Pinel, psychiatry on January 16, 2012 | 11 Comments »
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