into normal adult hood though punishment, confinement and moral training. B.Hospitals criticized for abuse, mistreatment , overuse of restraint, and unethical medical Practices.1. Charges of abuse begin in 1800’s. The supernatant of central state hospital goes to Governor with concerns. 2. The lobotomy, electroshock, insulin shock, and other medical procedures seen as unethical, and harmful to many.(Transition) Until the 1950s States continued opening State Hospitals, to house all mental and MRDD patients. However, the invention of drugs used to treat mental illness changed the rules. Suddenly patients that seemed hopeless could be helped with medicine, and possibly function in the community. IIAnti-psychotics change the field of psychology.A.Throazine, other major tranquilizers developed 1952 - The French psychiatrists Jean Delay and Pierre Deniker report that Thorazine calms hospitalized chronic schizophrenic patients without causing clinically significant depression. The drug is called 'hibernotherapie' because patients became quiet, like animals in hibernation.1.Medicine makes treatment of psychotic patient’s easier, decreases agitation, and hallucinations. 2.Decreases hospital stays, and length of time spent at hospital.B.Critics charge that hospitals overmedicate with thorazine, and that conditions at state hospitals are still inhumane.1.Movies like one flew over the coo-coo’s nest, and many other documentary and literary works about conditions of state hospitals create public interest. 2.State Hospitals begin to close many because of lack of funding and due to poor conditions and reports of abuse.3. The decrease in patients in state hospitals went from just under 560,000 in 1955 to just over 130,000 in 1980, a change of more than ...
