{"id":973,"date":"2023-10-05T01:12:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T01:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkhistmentalhealth.umwsites.net\/?p=21"},"modified":"2023-10-05T01:12:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T01:12:31","slug":"week-six-resource-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/weekly-blog-post\/week-six-resource-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Six Resource Blog Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/woman-spent-days-in-mental-facility-after-ex-boyfriend-forcibly-arrested-her-12970175\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/woman-spent-days-in-mental-facility-after-ex-boyfriend-forcibly-arrested-her-12970175\">This<\/a> 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 <em>Women of the Asylum <\/em>quite heavily.  A woman in Pennsylvania was committed to a psychiatric facility by her ex-boyfriend, who is a cop, based on false claims that she was suicidal. Similar to many of the stories told by 19th century women regarding being involuntarily committed to asylums, the ex-boyfriend used involuntary psychiatric treatment as a method of furthering abuse and, as part of his role as a cop, was able to do so due to a power imbalance in the relationship that meant his word held more weight than the victim&#8217;s and that he was able to make the decision to have her committed without thorough assessment of her mental state. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2026 <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mkhistmentalhealth.umwsites.net\/2023\/10\/05\/week-six-resource-blog-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week Six Resource Blog Post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-histmental2023","category-weekly-blog-post","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}