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1. With the rise of medication usage in psychiatry, was overmedication a problem? -RJD
2. How widely used was cognitive therapy? How often was it used in conjunction with drugs such as Thorazine? -RJD
1. Were the expectations regarding mental health care as strong as the idea of a “cure” associated with mental Illness? — Ruth Curran
2. Did Setting standards for diagnosing mental disorders increase the amount of medication prescribed? — Ruth Curran
1. In the Mad to Mental Health article it is interesting to note that “historically many physicians believed that a diagnosis was, at best, largely irrelevant to treating a patient or, at worst, restricting and deceptive.” This is something that I don’t think many realize when we think of patient care in a more general sense. -Jake M
2. I wonder why it took until the 1950s and 60s for there to be a reexamination of what was going on inside of Mental institutions as well as how patients were treated since we’ve seen patients and horrible conditions before. -Jake M