A really interesting source I discovered was a short documentary PBS did in 2002 on John Forbes Nash Jr., who I will be doing my digitally enhanced project on this semester for History of Mental Health. John Nash was a mathematician who won the Nobel …
Monthly Archives: September 2021
Possession or Hysteria?
Looking back at the Salem Witch Trials today, most people would not jump to the conclusion that the afflicted women in these cases were actually bewitched or possessed at the time. While there are lots of theories as to what happened, most scholars believe that the women were experiencing symptoms of Hysteria, which can be […]
Rosemary Kennedy
For my research topic for this semester I have decided to focus on Rosemary Kennedy. This website provides a great background to her story and how the Kennedy’s handled her mental disability. The article touches on how Rosemary became disabled and how that led to her eventual prefrontal lobotomy that left her essentially unresponsive for… Continue reading Rosemary Kennedy
My Personal Experience With Anxiety
For this Tuesday’s blog post, I have decided to explain my experience with my own personal mental health notion: anxiety. The first time that I began to take notice of my anxiety was around my years of high school. I would constantly worry about things that were beyond my control. Even to this day, I… Continue reading My Personal Experience With Anxiety
Civil War Veterans and Suicide
TAG:histmental2021 The research topic I have chosen is suicide in the 19th century . It was a surprise to me to find so much information on the high rate of suicide among Civil War veterans. I added this link which provides some interesting information about the emotional toll on survivors and their families with particular …
The Penrose Hypothesis
Mentioned briefly in one of our Wikipedia readings last week, the Penrose Hypothesis “proposes an inverse relationship between the relative number of psychiatric beds available to a population and it’s total number of prisoners”. Thro…
Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926)
Considered to be the “Father of Modern Psychiatry,” Kraepelin believed that biology and genetics played a role in psychiatric illnesses. He is the first to describe schizophrenia, which he called “dementia praecox.” He also…
Week 2
Hello everyone! This is my #Histmental2021 post for this week! This meme to me is very relevant to the class because it discusses the nature of psychiatry. Psychiatry has evolved a ton but there is no denying that some mental illnesses cannot be cured completely. This is relevant to the readings because they discuss heavily […]
Dead and Forgotten in an Asylum Cemetery
The New York Times. An Asylum’s Final Secrets | The New York Times, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLw2fbVeB-Y. This short video is about the old Willard Asylum in New York that was built in 1869 and finally closed in 1995. Over five thousand people have died there within that time period, and they are all buried in their […]
New Mental health concern related to zoom.
This article from the Guardian talks about this potential new mental health condition brought on by zoom where people who have been on video conferences a lot become self-conscious about what they look like on zoom. According to the article, they are not aware of the distortion that zoom creates which causes them to stress …
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