https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/black-asylum-files-reveal-racism/2021/03/26/ebfb2eda-6d78-11eb-9ead-673168d5b874_story.html This is a short and informative article that highlights the importance of studying the history of mental institutions as
Monthly Archives: August 2021
Wiki for 8/31/2021- Grob
My questions for the Grob Reading: Could the negative concept of mental health; which entailed that mental illnesses were a personal problem rather than a societal problem; correlate with how we treat and recognize mental illnesses today? Based on how mental health has been approached throughout centuries, was mental health ever approached in a respectful/… Continue reading Wiki for 8/31/2021- Grob
8/30/2021
The link below is a source I found that is a 1890 biennial report of the Illness State Hospital of the insane in Jacksonville. This text offers a in-depth view of a mental institution of the late 1800s from an administrative perspective. With this class covering the rise of asylums and their methods of treatment …
Benjamin Franklin as a pioneer for mental health.
Tag: histmental 2021 – Week #2 The Grob text mentions Ben Franklin’s colony-wide fund raising effort for a Philadelphia mental hospital ( pg. 19). Franklin was convinced that proper treatment could restore the mentally ill to proper health. Franklin was a student of the Enlightenment who would be called a “social justice warrior” in today’s …
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Week#1: HIST471G4
Introduction Welcome to my History of Mental Health in the United States Website. My name is Jayden Jordan and I am a senior at The University of Mary Washington. Like the majority of students in this class, I am a history major. My interest in history began in high school. I was fortunate enough to […]
HIST 471
Hello everyone! My name is Jack Kurz and I am in my senior year at the University of Mary Washington. I am very interested in the subject of Psychology and that is what led me to taking History of Mental Health. I am looking forward to many good disc…
8/26/2021
This meme while depicting the characters from the popular Cartoon Network program Regular Show in a normal conversation between these characters. It is the writing on the side that shows that in the modern age of mental health. Many now see the direct correlation between the body and the mind. As seen when the writer …
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Blog Home Header Image: Morin, A. (2021). A Display of Different Mental Health Issues . Very Well Mind . https://www.verywellmind.com/definition-of-mental-illness-4587855.
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Introduction to HIST 471 + Me
Hi all, welcome to my website! My name is Carson Berrier, and my blog’s title is a play on my last name! I am a senior here at Mary Wash, studying History and Secondary Education. I am currently deciding whether to stay in our 5th year M.Ed. prog…
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