Comparison of Here I Am in an Insane Asylum and Ten Days in a Mad-House In Here I am in an Insane Asylum, Robblett describes the time where he acted up with the doctor and didn’t answer any of his questions. He said after the visit with the doctor, one of the patients popped in the door and told him that if he wanted to get out of there then he needed to do whatever the doctor said. This really differs from that of Ten Days in a Mad-House because in that Asylum the patients weren’t looking out for each other because they had no hope that they would ever get out of the asylum. In Ten Days in a Mad-House once they were in the asylum they were stuck there because even if they showed signs of sanity they were viewed as being even
more insane. They were never given any opportunity to explain themselves. In Ten Days in a Mad-House Nellie described the patient-doctor relationship as the doctor behaving as if he always right and not giving the patient time to explain themselves. But in Here I am in an Insane Asylum the doctors are much friendlier. He described the reason as being that if the patient isn’t able to cooperate little can be done until an understanding can be established. I think that this is true because the Ten Days in a Mad-House, the patients were treated like inhuman and this led them not to open up to the doctor, not that the doctors would listen anyways. In Ten Days in a Mad-House Nellie says she overheard the questions that the doctors asked the patient after her and the questions were the exact same as when they asked her. There was no real understanding between the different types of mental disorders. There was no real way for the doctors to find out if one was insane or not if they didn’t show physical symptoms. We are able to see the faults in this because of Nellie being sane but acting in ways to fool the doctors and it actually worked. In Here I am in an Insane Asylum they have more understanding of each illness because the doctors were able to identify twenty types of insanity rather than just classifying the mentally ill as just being insane. The doctors are able to ask questions that relate to the different mental illness because they have a better understanding.
In this paper I will be comparing the visit to the State Mental Institution and the
In other words, the patient was sick because of his or her time in the institution. I find this interesting because without a more human telling of the story by Grob, it is hard to gauge if the psychosis of patients deteriorated in general with the length of stay in the institution and if because of this, did that impact the policies or methods of practice? I believe it would be similar to what they are finding now with the orphans of Romania in the 1980’s who were raised in institutions with only basic and minimal human contact and now are mostly homeless and unable to function in society or inmates in prison who have spent years behind bars and then are let go into the general population. History has proven that people struggle with trying to acclimate back into the general population. As a result of this by the 1980’s one-third of the homeless population in the United States were said to be seriously mentally ill. (PBS, "Timeline: Treatments for Mental
Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from, and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylums. The treatment of inmates in early lunatic asylums was sometimes brutal and focused on containment and restraint with successive waves of reform, and the introduction of effective evidence-based treatments, modern psychiatric hospitals provide a primary emphasis on treatment, and attempt where possible to help patients control their own lives in the outside world, with the use of a combination of psychiatric drugs and
" This improved the treatment of patients but the mentally ill that weren't in this asylum may have
Both stories are written in the first-person point of view. In both stories the main character insanity is effectively portrayed by irrational behavior and thoughts.
Sanity is subjective. Every individual is insane to another; however it is the people who possess the greatest self-restraint that prosper in acting “normal”. This is achieved by thrusting the title of insanity onto others who may be unlike oneself, although in reality, are simply non-conforming, as opposed to insane. In Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted, this fine line between sanity and insanity is explored to great lengths. Through the unveiling of Susanna’s past, the reasoning behind her commitment to McLean Hospital for the mentally ill, and varying definitions of the diagnosis that Susanna received, it is evident that social non-conformity is often confused with insanity.
Movies and shows like, “Girl Interrupted” and “American Horror Story: Insane Asylum” portray hospitals in a way that has truth to it, however they portray the people in a negative way. It has become more known to society that the hospitals that the mentally ill are subjected to living in are not a good place to be. However, the stigma that mentally ill people are dangerous and cannot overcome their illness is still widely
For many decades the mentally ill or insane have been hated, shunned, and discriminated against by the world. They have been thrown into cruel facilities, said to help cure their mental illnesses, where they were tortured, treated unfairly, and given belittling names such as retards, insane, demons, and psychos. However, reformers such as Dorothea Dix thought differently of these people and sought to help them instead. She saw the inhumanity in these facilities known as insane asylums or mental institutions, and showed the world the evil that wandered inside these asylums. Although movements have been made to improve conditions in insane asylums, and were said to help and treat the mentally ill, these brutally abusive places were full of disease and disorder, and were more like concentration camps similar to those in Europe during WWII than hospitals.
Another man involved was the Dr. John Galt he himself worked at one of these insane asylums as the superintendent of the Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg. Although there was a stream of terrible abuse in the asylum and prison movement towards the sick and insane he was one of the few that treated his patients with care he had very little use for restraints and preferred a calming medication. He was also the first influence in
The meaning of an insane asylum is? An insane asylum is calm nevertheless welcoming to the mentally ill. Conversely, the story of, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, proves that statement wrong because of the ordinary attitude of the head nurse, insane ways of maintaining control. McMurphy is one of the ones who stayed in the asylum and does not think the other patients are insane. He comes from a work farm where they gave him reduced amounts of meals per day accordingly thinks that the asylum is further improved in the sense of enhanced food and enhanced beds to sleep on. Showing that he would carry on as a great leader moreover conduct everything he could, so he can gain the others confidence, which plenty countless factors have
The BBC documentary, Mental: A History of the Madhouse, delves into Britain’s mental asylums and explores not only the life of the patients in these asylums, but also explains some of the treatments used on such patients (from the early 1950s to the late 1990s). The attitudes held against mental illness and those afflicted by it during the time were those of good intentions, although the vast majority of treatments and aid being carried out against the patients were anything but “good”. In 1948, mental health began to be included in the NHS (National Health Service) as an actual medical condition, this helped to bring mental disabilities under the umbrella of equality with all other medical conditions; however, asylums not only housed people
Due to her psychosis, many critics believe that Susanna Kaysen needs to be enrolled in a mental institution in order to recover. Coerced to enroll, she does so and then feels trapped in this new environment.
The Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, a sanatorium in which a melting pot of the state’s criminally insane, daft and demented were housed, was later effectively named the Dayton State Hospital, ultimately named 10 Wilmington Place, which completely “derails” past notions of the previous named building, and has now become a retirement home for the elderly. “It must be remembered that popular thinking at this time had by no means entirely removed from “insanity” its ancient association with demons, spirits sin and similar mythical phenomena. Neither was it generally considered in the category of illness and hence the afflicted were viewed with an admixture of curiosity, shame and guilt” (INSIDE D.S.H 2). The author is conveying that there was a misconception toward the afflicted that they were not only insane but also demonically possessed, hence the obscurity of the patients due to curiosity and shame by the community. In such films as House on Haunted Hill in which certain archaic medical experiments were performed on patients that once were housed there; as a challenge a group of people were offered money to spend the night in a house thought to be haunted by former patients years ago. This movie concept is in accordance with the author’s statement about popular thinking and public views.
My study of the phenomenon is about the movie One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest making a qualitative question. How is a mental illness person deal with the situation inside the mental institution? I used many qualitative methods to understand how patients are not treated as normal human because when they try to act as normal they are punish and they are isolated from the real world.
In Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault discuses the history of insanity in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. He begins his analysis with the treatment of the lepers and criminals concluding with the treatment of the insane. As “madness” became part of everyday life, people of the time were though to be threatened by “madness”. This sense of threat resulted in the hiding of the “mad” in early day asylum or “mad house”, whose conditions were inhumane. As medicine evolved, and the conditions of the “mad” worsened; There was a distinction made between medicine and reason. Not all that were housed in these “mad houses” were mad. Some indeed were insane, but others were sick and their disease were contagious. However, both were unhealthy and had to be separated from society.