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If I was a woman living in America in the 1800s, I would probably be locked up in an insane asylum immediately!🙈 On this episode of Current Counseling, we are talking the genesis of insane asylums in America, the inhumane treatments/ mental health care patients inside the walls of asylums experienced and what qualified someone to be admitted & committed to an asylum in the 1800s. You are not going to want to miss this episode!
Sources covered/ discussed during the podcast:
https://www.talkspace.com/blog/history-inhumane-mental-health-treatments/#:~:text=Brought%20to%20the%20United%20States,thought%20cured%20of%20their%20madness.
https://time.com/6074783/psychiatry-history-women-mental-health/
https://healthblog.uofmhealth.org/health-management/forget-old-movies-9-truths-about-shock-therapy-today
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/elizabeth-packard#:~:text=In%20her%20later%20years%2C%20Packard,Packard%20passed%20away%20in%201897.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/asylum-admission-criteria-in-the-1800s-means-you-might-have-qualified-20151022-gkffuk.html
https://www.utoledo.edu/library/canaday/exhibits/quackery/quack5.html
https://nobaproject.com/modules/history-of-mental-illness