Merciless psychiatry: shocking methods of treatment of the XIX century
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In the XIX century, important events took place that influenced the history of psychiatry, but the means and methods of treatment most often had a bizarre and even ridiculous character, for example, patients of English psychiatric medical careers drank an average of 5 pint (2.8 l) of beer. For the treatment of mental illness, such, modern, look, merciless measures, such as teeth removal or the clitoris and ovaries in women, treatment with mercury and vomiting, were used.
This was the old psychiatry: the body was considered the main source of psychological troubles. The concepts of the disease were often due to the sociocultural paradigm, such as the disguised moralism of Victorian culture. And the ideas about rationality as a decisive line of a person led to the fact that melancholy was considered a lack of motivation and a consequence of the irrationality of thinking
This was the old psychiatry: the body was considered the main source of psychological troubles. The concepts of the disease were often due to the sociocultural paradigm, such as the disguised moralism of Victorian culture. And the ideas about rationality as a decisive line of a person led to the fact that melancholy was considered a lack of motivation and a consequence of the irrationality of thinking
Author:
Author:Filippov D.S.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Medical Books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Series:
Series: Scientific Runet
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-17-138175-2
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