In Grob’s reading for this week, we read about Rosemary Kennedy and her sister Eunice Shriver. Eunice Shriver was a big proponent of mental health care and awareness. She started Camp Shriver as a way to show people with mental health issues that they are just as talented as anyone else. At the camp they …
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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 …
The Willowbrook State School
An argument for deinstitutionalization. Willowbrook was an asylum located in Staten Island New York that became notorious in 1972 after a young reporter named Geraldo Rivera snuck in and published a shocking expose about patient abuse. I can remember seeing this scandal on the news when I was just a kid. In spite of the …
Digital Project
For my digital project, I am writing about the impact of Dorothea Dix’s crusades in Massachusetts in order to understand why she was considered a successful reformer. One thing from the beginning that I noticed was that after her time in MA, her …
Post Massachusetts
Following her successful crusade in Massachusetts, Dorothea Dix traveled around the United States on a mission to improve the conditions in other asylums and institutions. This memorial letter written by Dix and given to Congress, is one asking for lan…
Digital Essay Project Approach
For my digital essay, I will begin with some background information about the Salem Witch Trials for a paragraph or two and then introduce some theories that historians have for what caused the strange, medical symptoms in the young girls that sparked the witch panic. I will then explain the history of hysteria, what the […]
Digital Project
For my project, I will be focusing on “Cures” for Autism. using the form of a Powerpoint I will look at the history of Autism itself, treatments, reactions, the search for a cure, and whether it is needed or not. My powerpoint will use pictures when needed and videos that could work in it, if …
Perception of Shell Shock
For my resource blog post this week I chose this meme about trauma and shell shock after the Great War. This relates to my digital project this semester because the stigma around shell shock being an excuse was prominent in the military. This stigma was profound amongst the highest ranks as is seen in this […]
Project Approach
For my project, I plan on creating a digitally enhanced essay on PTSD in students who have survived school shootings. I will be focusing on three different shootings for the project: Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Parkland. I will be researching how the topic of PTSD in school shooting victims has changed over time. My research …
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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