84 - Outdated Mental Health Treatments

Sharon and Mindy discuss a bunch of different past mental health treatments that were used throughout history, that range from the bizarre to just plain barbaric.  Most of them probably should not have existed in the first place. 

 

References:

https://online.csp.edu/blog/psychology/history-of-mental-illness-treatment/

https://www.everydayhealth.com/pictures/worst-mental-health-treatments-history/

A treasure trove of articles on inhumane mental health practices

History of inhumane mental health treatments from talkspace

Outdated and outlandish treatments 

The good, bad and inhumane

Mental Floss article on mind-boggling treatments

Dorothea Dix’s tireless fight to end inhumane treatment for mental health patients

https://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/odd-psychiatric-treatments#page=2

https://sunrisehouse.com/research/history-evolution-mental-health-treatment/

https://www.mdlinx.com/article/-barbaric-medical-practices-still-used-today/lfc-3762

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/may/mental-health-conditionsubstance-use-comparing-us-other-countries

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-quackery/history-hysteria

https://allthatsinteresting.com/henry-cotton

https://daily.jstor.org/the-unproven-deadly-common-cure-for-schizophrenia/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudanum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincture

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/149002

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/89268/lure-laudanum-victorians-favorite-drug

https://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2013/02/poetry-pain-and-opium-in-victorian-england-elizabeth-barrett-brownings-use-of-laudanum.html

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/heroin/history/laudlady.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy

https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/prefrontal-cortex

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15629160

https://www.livescience.com/42199-lobotomy-definition.html

https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/43/3/article-pE6.xml

https://allthatsinteresting.com/rosemary-kennedy-lobotomy

https://www.mcleanhospital.org/essential/ect-shouldnt-be-last-resort-treatment

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electroconvulsive-therapy-a-history-of-controversy-but-also-of-help/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentylenetetrazol

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electroconvulsive-therapy-a-history-of-controversy-but-also-of-help/

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/electroconvulsive-therapy/about/pac-20393894

https://www.mcleanhospital.org/essential/ect-shouldnt-be-last-resort-treatment

https://www.healthline.com/health/electroconvulsive-therapy#benefits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.97.3.667

 

 

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