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Madness: A Social History of Mental Illness

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Brainwaves: Electroshock Therapy—Madness (FULL VIDEO) Medical science has made enormous strides since the days of using bloodletting and restraints in the management of psychiatric disorders, and yet a definitive cure for these conditions remains elusive. Focusing on electroshock therapy, this program gives an overview of mental illness treatments, from the crude methods of the Middle Ages t...

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Out of Sight: The Rise and Fall of the Asylum—Madness (FULL VIDEO) Originally denoting a place of refuge, the word “asylum” became associated with brutal institutions for locking up people with mental illness. As attitudes about psychosis evolved, reformers began to provide more humane shelter—but these soon devolved into overcrowded, prison-like facilities that were not much better than what had come be...

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To Define True Madness: Concepts of Schizophrenia—Madness (FULL VIDEO) What seems like madness in one society may be accepted as normal behavior in another, but hearing voices or hallucinating has almost universally been considered a sign of insanity. What differs from one culture to the next is the way such aberrations are dealt with, depending on whether the voices come from God, the Devil, or a brain malf...

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The Talking Cure: Sigmund Freud—Madness (FULL VIDEO) What makes people call talk-radio hosts and broadcast their problems to an audience of millions? Is there something truly therapeutic about sharing one’s feelings with an impartial listener? When Sigmund Freud developed his famous talking cure he was working against a medical establishment that attributed mental illness to physical defe...

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In Two Minds: Is Mental Illness Really an Illness?—Madness (FULL VIDEO) The anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s held that identifying people as mentally ill was a convenient way to control segments of the population considered to be socially undesirable. Two centuries earlier, Enlightenment philosophers reasoned that if insanity could be traced to physiological defects, it might then be assumed that human...

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