Comments on: Rare footage of physical treatments in psychiatry, 1957

By: nardilly

nardilly — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:03:51 +0000

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By: Jordi Serra

Jordi Serra — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:55:15 +0000

A propos of abreaction there is a recent very interesting review on the subject:

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/197/2/91

By: Quick Links | A Blog Around The Clock

Quick Links | A Blog Around The Clock — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:46:53 +0000

[...] Rare footage of physical treatments in psychiatry, 1957 [...]

By: K. Scheller

K. Scheller — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:29:27 +0000

Hey, thanks a lot the video is fantastic!

But I have to agree with Alex, things are not that much different today. Yes, we overcame the “bloodletting” times of psychiatry but still we put people on drugs for many minor things – and often the side effects are so strong that people are unable to live alone, not to speak of the characters, which were two of the main problems of those now ancient physical treatments too.

Time for more research and understanding and then we might also get over these problems….

By: Alex C.

Alex C. — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:22:26 +0000

Things haven’t changed so much. See, for example, the book “Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America”, by Robert Whitaker. The author details the pseudoscientific basis for psychopharmacology. He also outlines the harmful effects of these drugs (and, no, I’m not a member of that religious cult that is opposed to all psychiatric medicine).

Here’s a link to the Amazon page for Whitaker’s book:

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America