The Mentally Ill: 19th Century vs Today

Psychiatric Patients: 19th Century vs. Today, after reading "Charterous Perkins Gilman's" Yellow Wallpaper ", the reader tends to believe the speaker's judgment. However, when people explored the literal meaning of text, they discovered that the narrator "temporary nervous depression" distorted her reality. It is the responsibility of the reader to separate the facts from the fiction in the story. When the reader separates the two, basic information about the story of psychosis in the 19th century became clear.

Because the media and the government's "myths related to mental illness and gun violence" existed for a long time and strengthened this myth, people who have serious mental illness today are more afraid than half a century ago "media cry It is normal not to gather in front. Clear message "mental illness"

From the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, domestic laws were drafted to prohibit the marriage and disinfection of obsessive-compulsive disorder to prevent the transmission of mental illness to the next generation. These laws were maintained by the US Supreme Court (Buck vs. Bell) in 1927 and were not abolished until mid-20th century. In the ruling of Barker and Bell on May 2, 1927, the US Supreme Court supported the Virginia Act to provide eugenic sterilization to people considered to be genetically inappropriate. Maintaining Virginia's sterilization regulations provides a green light to similar laws in 30 states, according to which an estimated 65,000 Americans are sterilized without their consent or family.

In the 18th century, protest actions were raised in the living environment of people with mental disabilities. From the 18th century to the 19th century, there was a more humanistic view of mental illness. In 1785, Italian doctor Vincenzo Chiarughi (1759-1820) disassembled the patient chain at St. Boniface hospital in Florence, Italy, encouraged good sanitation, recreation and vocational training. As well-known, the French doctor Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) and the previous patient Jean-Baptise Pussin released "trait ethics" in 1793 and 1795, including patient disarming, with LaBicêtre and Salpêtrière I made it. They moved to a good playing state. A bright room encourages intentional activities and free activities (Micale, 1985)

Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) in France and J. Connolly in the UK have developed modern psychiatry. They all support a more humane treatment for people with psychosis. In the 19th century, disease research, classification and treatment were supported. Psychoanalysis is being developed. Sigmund Freud and his believer's psychoanalysis theory have dominated this field for many years, and there was no serious science before the development of therapy from behavioral therapy and human psychology in the mid-20th century. Challenge