Hello everyone at the bottom of this post will be a link to the the Virginia law site. The law being linked is the Virginia state law related to the the involuntary incarceration of the mentally ill. The reason for linking this site is quite obvious due to what we have been reading this week …
Author Archives: Parker Siebenschuh
The Snake Pit Film Review
Hey everyone due to some technical issues I am gonna post a link to my film review. As the original post I did is not showing up on the course website for some reason. So be sure to give it a look if you please.
HIST 471 Film Review
Digital Project
Here is the link to my digital project
http://parkersiebenschuh-history-historicpreservation.org/hist-471-research-project/hist-471-digital-project/
Ionia Hospital
Since we are discussing the Ionia State Hospital this week, I found this website that gives a brief overview of the hospital, along with providing a small image galley of the hospital. The website also has other asylums and hospitals listed. So its a fun little thing to go through just to look at some …
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 …
Explanation of my semester project for HIST 471
For my US History of Mental Health project for this semester, I will be writing a digitally enhanced essay. The essay will be on how the APA’s removal of homosexuality as a mental illness was a purely political move. Instead of it being more based on psychiatric research. The among the sources of my paper …
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Weekly Post
This attached article covers the general history of the removal homosexuality as a mental illness in the United States. It also provides context and explanations of the various theories being discussed by psychiatrists at that time as well. The role that LGBT activists had with the changing of the APA’s stance is also discussed as …
Project Proposal Link
Hello everyone here is a link to my HIST 471 project proposal on my course website.
HIST 471 Research Proposal
Nelly Bly Muckraker
Hello everyone for this week Bonnie and I will be covering Women in the Asylum. As well as Dorothea Dix and Nelly Bly. The latter of the two being a “muckraker” an early form of investigative journalist. Her exposé on Blackwell Insane Asylum titled 10 Days in a Mad House, being what she most famous …
The 1973 APA over turn of Homosexuality as a mental illness
This link below links to a New York Times article from December 16th, 1973 that speaks about the at the time. Recent change in the American psychiatric world, that homosexuality is to be no longer viewed or considered a mental illness. The article also goes on to explain the type of mental effects that the …
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