Topic 1 - Animalism Flashcards
What was the prevailing view?
That the insane should be treated like animals
How were they kept?
They were chained to the walls or kept on long leashes
What happened to them?
“Their scalps were shaved and blisters; they were bled to a point of syncope (unconsciousness), purged until the alimentary canal failed to yield anything but mucus, and in the intervals they were chained by the waist or ankle to the cell wall”
What was used by the keeper?
Not unusual… for the keeper to carry a whip and use it freely
What is entitled but the insane to the modern mind?
Compassion and kindness
What were our predecessors less worried about?
The treatment of the insane
What was the first mandate of treatment?
Was to restore reason. Fear was believed to be the emotion that was best suited to restoring the disordered mind
What happened by the end of the eighteenth century?
The idea that the insane should be treated as animas was under attack
