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Mental Health in the 1950's

How They Dealt With Mental Health Issues

  • They placed the people with mental health issues in institutions that were similar to jails, a lot of them were treated cruely.
  • They hid the problem from the public by putting them in these institutions so they couldn't see them.
  • In the 1900's experts tried to understand how a person behaves this way.

By:Michaela Hogarth

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  • When rumors got out about the new surgery alot pf criticism came from those who learned about the deaths being caused by the institutions.
  • They called it abuse and they started to use different methods such as drug therapy.

J.Freeman Trans-Orbial Lobotom

1950's and Beyond

Negative Effects Of These Institutions

  • After the instituions when some people were released they had no money at all, they were barley able to provide the support needed.
  • The support needed includes..
  • Housing assistance
  • Counseling
  • Life skills training
  • Social support
  • J.Freeman came up with a very unsuccessful experimental treatment that he thought could help people with mental illness
  • The steps include....
  • 1. 2 quick shocks to the head
  • 2. Roll back one of the patients eyelids
  • 3. Insert a device 2/3 the size of a pencil
  • 4.Tap it with a hammer into the frontal lobe
  • 5.Swing the device back and fourth
  • After using the drug therapy some people began to handle their mental health issues a lot better.
  • Experts began to move people out of the institutions and into the communities again, many people were slow to adapt to these people with disabilities.
  • When they moved out of the institutions they did not have a job and were very poor.
  • They couldn't afford much so they had to live on the streets beg for money, some of them went back to there homes with their relatives.
  • They tried to treat the patients using cruel treatments.
  • Such as ice baths, shock machines, and electrocution therapy.

Significance To The Book

I researched mental Health in the 1950's because this is the time period that it book takes place. Mental Health can relate to this book because the main character Holden does have some Mental health Issues as well, he deals with some depression along the way of his journey. This shows what they did in his era when they had a mental illness and how they would treat him for it if he were to go for help.

Thank You!

What Type Of Effect?

Ten Days in a Mad-House

After The Events

  • Nellie Bly's courageous story definitely has a positive effect on the Institutions
  • These are some reasons why....
  • They started to change the physical treatments to Drug therapy after the criticisms of the public.
  • The drug therapy started to work helping people control their illness better.
  • This helped get people well enough to get out of the Institution and lower the populations inside them.
  • They stopped abusing people with their harsh treatments and stopped killing people.
  • After Nellie got out of the Asylum she wrote a book about her experiences inside and the types of abuse she went through.
  • This book caused the public to criticize the Asylum's.
  • This book had also made some of the institutions to be closed up for good after people hearing about all the things that went on.
  • I have found an article about a 23 year old woman named Nellie bly.
  • This article is about her going into the institution and writing about it.
  • Nellie Bly was a writer for the New york paper.
  • She was voluntarily submitted into Blackwell's Insane Asylum for 10 days.
  • She had wrote stories on her experiences inside she wrote about things such as spoiled food, ice cold baths, and forced feedings.

Drug Therapy

  • They started to experiment with drug therapy instead after the negative criticism from the public.
  • In the 1940`s and 1950`s they began to experiment with different powders and pills.
  • This experiment was successful when they found medications like lithium that could sooth people with bipolar disorders, and anti-psychotic medication to help people with Schizophrenia.

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