History of Mental Health

1. History of
Mental
Health
By: Angela Gourley

2. Early Days of Mental Health
 Mental
illness related to spirituality
 Belief that mentally ill were possessed
 Mentally ill were being punished by God
 Treatments
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Make a hole in the head so the spirits leave
Spiritual rituals

3. Hippocrates
460 bc.-375 bc.
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Proposed mental
illness was a physical
not spiritual condition
Proposed that an
imbalance of bodily
fluids was the cause
Treatments

Getting mentally ill
to expel body fluids

4. Asylums
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17th, 18th, and 19th
century- Asylums
were home to a
large population of
mentally ill
Mentally ill were
abused, treated
inhumane, and
constrained
Treatments

Putting them in ice
water, drugged

5. Life in Asylums

6. Phillip Pinel
1745-1826
 Humanitarian
Movement
 Pinel saw the
abuse of mentally
ill
 He proposed
treating them
kindly, without
abuse or neglect

7. Dorothea Dix
1802-1887
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Mental Hygiene
Movement
Observed the
conditions of asylums
and prisons
Dix fought to change
the conditions that
the mentally ill were
living in

8. Mental Health in the 20th
Century
 Clifford
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Beers
Institutionalized
A Mind that Found Itself
Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene
 Treatments
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during the 20th Century
Psychoanalysis
Shock therapy
Brain Surgery (Lobotomies)
Drugs

9. Psychopharmacology
 Medications
used
to treat mental
illness
 Institutions closed
 Mentally ill end up
in community
programs, homeles
s, or in prisons

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