After our discussion on how schizophrenia was used against African Americans before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement, I got to thinking about a book I saw in Simpson Library that covered a similar phenomenon in women. Madwives: Schizophren…
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Madwives: Schizophrenic Women in the 1950s
After our discussion on how schizophrenia was used against African Americans before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement, I got to thinking about a book I saw in Simpson Library that covered a similar phenomenon in women. Madwives: Schizophren…
Dr. Jonathan M. Metzel – Week #10
This week we are reading a text by Dr. Jonathan M. Metzel. I looked him up and found he has authored several books. Dr. Metzel is also a professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University. His latest book “Dying of Whiteness” looks quite interesting. Below is a link to his webpage.
Hysteria: The Catch All Diagnosis for Women
This TikTok gives a brief overview of the historical hysteria diagnosis and demonstrates how problematic it was. If a woman displayed any signs of being hormonal or emotional, they were seen as having a mental illness. The fact that it wasn’t removed from the DSM till 1980 is shocking!
Curability of Shell Shock
For my resource blog post this week I have chosen this short clip released by the British War Archives. The video depicts a man who is clearly struggling to function, stumbling all over the room. The end of the video shows the previously ailed soldier as now clean cut. This clip does a great job […]
Pediatricians declare Mental Health issues in children a national emergency.
A large amount of Pediatricians apparently see the mental health issues in children brought by the pandemic as a national emergency. Covid caused a rise of mental health issues in people and its impacted children even more.
Week#9: St. Elizabeths’ delayed response to coronavirus contributed to 18 deaths, report says.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/st-elizabeths-covid-deaths/2021/03/01/b10d9230-7a99-11eb-b0fc-83144c02d676_story.html One of the readings for this week was the continuation of Summers, Madness in the City. Summers Published his work in 2019, but the history Summers gives of Saint Elizabeths ends in the 1980s. I wanted to follow up on Summers’s work and find out how Saint Elizabeths was doing today and if the […]
The Lost Years of a Nobel Laureate
As it comes close for our digitally enhanced projects to be due, I find myself digging up obscure sources as I plan out my video. Information on John Nash is hard to come by unless it’s in video format, or from the pen of his biographer, one Syl…
The Lost Years of a Nobel Laureate
As it comes close for our digitally enhanced projects to be due, I find myself digging up obscure sources as I plan out my video. Information on John Nash is hard to come by unless it’s in video format, or from the pen of his biographer, one Syl…
Brief History of PTSD
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 …
