This article on the Department of Veterans Affairs webpage gives a brief history of PTSD. The article states that PTSD may well have been a part of human experience since prehistoric times, but it was not until the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1) that physicians first made a systematic attempt to understand …
Monthly Archives: October 2021
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
In Grob’s reading for this week, we read about Rosemary Kennedy and her sister Eunice Shriver. Eunice Shriver was a big proponent of mental health care and awareness. She started Camp Shriver as a way to show people with mental health issues that they are just as talented as anyone else. At the camp they …
AHS Asylum Update
I thought for this week’s blog post I would do an update on the show I’m watching which is American Horror Story: Asylum. So far the show has touched on electroshock therapy, corporal punishment, Homosexuality as a mental disorder, and even B.F. Skinner. The show, while being obviously dramatized and unrealistic, has actually had quite… Continue reading AHS Asylum Update
PBS Documentary
This is a documentary covering the change of homosexuality from a mental illness to not. With this documentary mainly focusing on the perspective and actions of the LGBTQA+ community at that time. With their political actions and protests being the shining example being shown in the documentary. I will also be using this documentary in …
Mental Check-In #2
You already know what this is by the title; ANOTHER mental health check-in for the semester! Just like the last one, this is check-in is for everyone, including you, Professor McClurken. How have you been doing so far? Are you taking your vitamins and getting a full meal in? Are you sleeping well and drinking… Continue reading Mental Check-In #2
The Willowbrook State School
An argument for deinstitutionalization. Willowbrook was an asylum located in Staten Island New York that became notorious in 1972 after a young reporter named Geraldo Rivera snuck in and published a shocking expose about patient abuse. I can remember seeing this scandal on the news when I was just a kid. In spite of the …
Psychedelia Documentary
This is a trailer for the film Psychedelia: The History and Science of Mystical Experience. The film traces the originsContinue readingPsychedelia Documentary
Digital Project
For my digital project, I am writing about the impact of Dorothea Dix’s crusades in Massachusetts in order to understand why she was considered a successful reformer. One thing from the beginning that I noticed was that after her time in MA, her …
Post Massachusetts
Following her successful crusade in Massachusetts, Dorothea Dix traveled around the United States on a mission to improve the conditions in other asylums and institutions. This memorial letter written by Dix and given to Congress, is one asking for lan…
Digital Essay Project Approach
For my digital essay, I will begin with some background information about the Salem Witch Trials for a paragraph or two and then introduce some theories that historians have for what caused the strange, medical symptoms in the young girls that sparked the witch panic. I will then explain the history of hysteria, what the […]
