Insane Asylum Medical Practices

Asylum Medicine: Standard and Best Practices

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First, some nonprofit organizations connect clinicians interested in performing asylum evaluations with legal professionals and their clients. 15 In addition, a number of asylum clinics organized by medical students connect clinicians with training …

A Snapshot of Life in a 19th-Century Insane Asylum

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Unknown (175) Ill Health/Illness (38) Domestic Affliction (now simply known as having a menstrual period) (30) Religious Excitement (19) Heredity (18) Being “Disappointed in Love” (17) …

The History of Inhumane Mental Health Treatments

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The 10 Worst Mental Health Treatments in History

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In appropriate patients, deep brain stimulation (DBS) and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are used successfully, such as DBS for severe OCD and ECT for severe mania and severe or...

Inside 9 Terrifying Insane Asylums Of The 19th Century

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The origins of mental asylums — an antiquated and loaded term that is now retired from the field of mental health medicine — …

A Victorian Mental Asylum | Science Museum

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But when the first large asylums were built in the early 1800s, they were part of a new, more humane attitude towards mental healthcare. The Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell, on the …

Insane Asylum: 16 Terrifying Facts of Mental Asylums in …

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Doctors began using Wagner-Jauregg’s protocol, injecting countless asylum patients with malaria, again, likely without their knowledge or consent. Wagner-Jauregg’s research found that about half of the patients injected …

The 10 Most Insane Medical Practices in History

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History is filled with stories of hilarious medical ineptitude, and in all likeliness, today's medical practices will be similarly snorted at 100 years down the road. In other words, if you're looking to justify your …

10 Mind-Boggling Psychiatric Treatments | Mental Floss

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Like getting-a-hole-drilled-into-your-skull worse. 1. INSULIN COMA-THERAPY The coma-therapy trend began in 1927. Viennese physician Manfred Sakel accidentally gave one of his diabetic patients an...

10 Brutal Accounts Of Torture In Old Insane Asylums

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Reports from the 1800s and early 1900s about the abuse of patients in insane asylums are enough to make the strongest person want to vomit. The patients were often kept in the most horrendous …