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Author Archives: RJ Davis
Film Post: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
For this project, I chose the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, which coincidentally is one of my favorite films as well (it’s available for free on the Internet Archive). McMurphy is portrayed as a charismatic criminal who faked insanity to avoid prison. McMurphy seems to think that the institution is a free …
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Digital Project
Many, if not all of the remaining mental institutions in the United States have some aura of controversy surrounding them. Central State Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia isn’t unique in this aspect. Central State was the first mental institution in America opened specifically for African Americans. It’s safe to assume that many Americans cared little for …
Metzl on The Protest Psychosis
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Metzl speaks on his book.
Freud: A Documentary
SIGMUND FREUD THE FATHER OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Full …
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Mental Hygeine
A short documentary from “Mental Health America”
Female Institutionalization
To supplement the readings for this week, I sought after a more basic overview of the treatment of women in mental institutions to serve as a brief summary of the material. This article, while a bit…. crass goes into some pretty interesting facts about how and why women were institutionalized. Also within the article is …
John M. Galt
As we’ve discussed in class, John M. Galt may have had good intentions, but behind closed doors……. they tend to fade away a bit. Especially when it came to race. This quote, probably one of Galt’s best known, represents his…
Proposal with Annotated Bibliography
RJ Davis Proposal: Controversies in Virginia’s Central State Hospital Arguably, Central State Hospital in Petersburg Virginia never had its heyday in the picture of modern equality-based perceptions of successful mental health practices. Opening in 1862 as Howard’s Grove Hospital for Confederate soldiers, the grounds were repurposed in 1869 and renamed the Central Lunatic Asylum for …
Kirkbride Plan
This video covers buildings in the Kirkbride plan, and references Dorthea Dix and other reformers who had a role on this plan.
