Early Hospital Treatments for Severe Mental Disorders
Author: Ronald J. Comer
Princeton University
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The medical treatments used in mental hospitals during the first half of the twentieth century were crude, largely ineffective, and often unintentionally cruel. Some of the leading approaches are shown in this video, including the wet pack, insulin therapy, metrazol therapy, and the lobotomy.
1. The treatment procedures on display in this video represent which perspective?
2. The treatment procedures in this video are linked to ______________.
3. The decline of the treatments on display in this video was linked to the development of ______________.
4. Which of the treatments in this video was not meant to relax or soothe patients?
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