I chose this image from memebase as it is interesting when considering anxiety in women in this period. While reading and researching for my topic, I have read how many times women’s anxiety or depression during this period could stem from the role she was playing in society. I thought this meme was kind of …
Monthly Archives: September 2023
Week Three Resource Blog Post
This was a video that I came across while doing research for my digital project but ultimately decided not to use. It is a video tour of the Fulton State Hospital in Missouri, which was built in the 1800s. Reading in chapter six of Tomes about the struggles that people like Curwen had with maintaining …
09/13/2023
This meme (a little outdated) perfectly encompasses what many Black Americans experience when opening up about depression and other mental illnesses.
Week 3 Day 2
https://kentuckyhistoricinstitutions.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/1-1.jpg The picture above shows several patients at Eastern State Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, and a restraint device known as the coercion chair being used on one of the patients. This picture, in particular, stuck out to me because of how the restrained patient sits with their head in their hands. This picture fits the […]
Kirkbride Plan
This video covers buildings in the Kirkbride plan, and references Dorthea Dix and other reformers who had a role on this plan.
Source List: Depictions of Mental Health in American Comedy
This was quite tricky to find a lot of good scholarly information on. There aren’t a lot of good monographs on this, and what exists seems to scarcely touch on how mental health has been seen through the comedic lens, so it would seem I’d have a lot of legwork to do if I keep […]
Project Topic and Initial Bibliography
The topic that I am interested in pursuing for this project is what happened to the physical buildings of asylums during and following the period of deinstitutionalization. Were they abandoned, repurposed, torn down, etc? I am also curious as to how they were perceived within the community/wider public following that period and how understanding of …
Project Topic and Initial Bibliography
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Attached above is my Project Topic and Initial Bibliography. #histmental2023
Research Based Digital Project Broad Topic and Bibliography
Tenative digital project option: Digitally enhanced research essay The evolvement of women’s reliance on treating anxiety with medications in the 1950s-1980s. Bound, Fay. “Keywords in the History of Medicine: Anxiety.” The Lancet (British Edition) 363, no. 9418 (2004): 1407–. Brill, Abraham, Signund, Freud. Selected Papers on Hysteria and Other Psychoneuroses. NY: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing …
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Project Sources
I didn’t want to post the citations directly, as WordPress isn’t playing nice with my formatting.
