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1. In Freud’s experience spreading his new psychoanalysis treatment, why did it take on so readily in the US? Was there a culture already prepared to hear that messaging?-Margie Jones
2. Without the criticism in the late 19th century of mental hospitals would work such as Freud’s have developed? Or would it have continued as maintenance of mental illness without exploring the biological origins of the diseases.-Margie Jones
1. It is interesting how in the treatment of the lady who was unable to express herself with language Freud has ideas of things she would have been considering in her mind. Curious how it was known that she would think certain things if she was unable to express it and how did this play into the development of treatments? — Ruth Curran
2. With the analogy of repression in the Freud reading, is repression intended to be a kind of treatment? — Ruth Curran
1. Freud is so often either praised or maligned in psychology, but I think his theories show a really interesting shift in how mental health was being thought of. Most interestingly, to me, at least, is how psychoanalysis is sort of a bridge between the older ideas of curing mental illness and the newer ideas of treatment in the way that it seeks to explain the root causes of different disorders. In what ways does psychoanalysis represent a desire to change the psychiatric profession? How did its use and introduction represent a departure from psychiatric care from the decades prior? -RM
2. Grob talks a fair amount about the expansion of the psychiatric profession outside institutions during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries–was this a positive development for institutions? Psychiatry? Mental health treatment and understanding as a whole? -RM
1. Clifford Beers' book A Mind That Found Itself is identified as being the the most influential work on institutional life; how did Beers differ in the way that he dealt with the issue of institutionalization and broader social issues – feminism, etc. – from the first hand accounts we've read and why might his approach have had a wider impact? - Morgan
2. How much do we know about how mentally ill and institutionalized people felt about the rise of the mental hygiene movement and new forms of treatment? - Morgan
3. As care begins to shift back to the family and community, is there a sense that this is a return to an older tradition? - Morgan