American psychiatry: a tortured history
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Treating Mental Illnesses Through the Ages
Mental illness has this overlay of social disparagement and just general rejection that I think exacerbates the whole problem in a quite massive way. So what was called a madhouse early on becomes an asylum, becomes a mental hospital or in America becomes a state hospital to even glide the mental part of things but everybody quickly recognizes what's going on so sort of reformed by word magic doesn't do much. We look back at the early 19th century and see it as a sort of idyllic age before all the stresses of modern life but they felt equally that they're a society, they just thrown out the British. They thought mental illness had in many ways an environmental cause or at least the
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