https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BGpoQgkDaA&ab_channel=UWPBSCI
Metzl speaks on his book.
Category Archives: histmental2023
10/25/23
Reminded me of our lobotomy conversation a few weeks ago. Another representation of how most people my age do not take the issue of mental health very seriously.
Freud: A Documentary
SIGMUND FREUD THE FATHER OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Full …
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10/18/2023
Reminded me of the reading, from the film Girl Interrupted <3.
Week Eight Resource Blog Post
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 …
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 …
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 […]
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 …
Week Six Resource Blog Post
This news article from a week ago covers a story that, while I did not realize it at the time that I bookmarked it as a potential source for a post, mirrors many of the stories in Women of the Asylum quite heavily. A woman in Pennsylvania was committed to a psychiatric facility by her …
Week Five Resource Blog Post
I’ve been getting this really interesting ad on Twitter recently (please ignore the really poorly cropped screenshot; mobile is hard) that reminded me a bit of the blurry line between mental health treatment and spa treatment that we’ve mentioned a few times. I’m not totally sure in what way plunging oneself into a large bucket …
