After finishing Girl, Interrupted, I googled Susanna Kaysen because I was curious about her life following her memoir’s publication and subsequent popularity, and I found this interview from this May, where Kaysen reflected on the book thirty years later. I was especially intrigued by her answer to the question of what positive changes she has …
Monthly Archives: October 2023
10/18
The reason I chose this picture is because we have been discussing mental asylums from women’s perspective. As we have discussed many women were put into these hospitals for less than solid reasons. I believe this picture perfectly shows the st…
11 October 2023
My roommate saw this on Reddit and sent it to me. I thought it was really funny, relatable, and topical to our class.
10/11/2023
Another meme about mental illness that shows that younger generations have become desensitized to the issue. It also reminds me of a comment I made earlier in the week about how sometimes people will take traits that are outside the norm and assume they have a mental illness or disorder. Szasz would not approve of […]
Mental Hygeine
A short documentary from “Mental Health America”
Youtube clip History of Benzodiazepines
I thought this little short video on YouTube was interesting from Psychiatrist Allen Frances M.D. who says he was at the beginning of his training during the period when Benzodiazepines first appear in the early 1960s. He discusses what some of the thoughts and beliefs were about the drug as well as what was discovered …
Week Seven Resource Blog Post
Lately I’ve been trying to waste less time scrolling on Twitter and as a result have taken to wasting more time scrolling on Pinterest, which is where I found this really wonderful image of a My Little Pony character edited into what appears to be an old picture of a gate labeled “hospital for the …
(Week 7) Eastern State Lunatic Asylum (Lexington, KY)
https://asylumprojects.org/index.php/Eastern_State_Hospital_Lexington
This article provides a rough overview of the Eastern State Lunatic Asylum. The article is chronologically organized for the most part, which would help in establishing an unders…
10/04/2023
This video reminded me of the readings for this week because it mentioned how in the 19th century insanity in women was linked to pregnancy and the period immediately after giving birth, which today we know is from the psychological stress of giving birth and is referred to as postpartum depression. The other part is […]
Week 6 Blog Post
While working in my local Historical Society, I was shocked to find some things about Dr. Joseph DeJarnette who was Superintendent of the Western State Hospital. I found two different obituary’s about Dr. DeJarnette that seem very contradicting within my museum’s DeJarnette collection. This collection has some things that I believe would be beneficial for […]
