Essay On Mental Hospitals In The 19th And 20th Century

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Britain in the 19th and 20th Century:
Advances at Mental Hospitals Mental illnesses did not evolve from one day to the other, they must’ve been around since the start of mankind. This makes you wonder why mental hospitals in Britain only became popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, if theoretically mental illness has been around since the start of humanity. With curiosity of this breakthrough, we will further explore the benefits that came with these institutions. Mental hospitals during the 19th and 20th century advanced in environments like justice, treatment, gender, and social roles.
Justice for mentally ill prisoners raised in judicial grounds. Criminals used to be incarcerated regardless of a plea of insanity rather than seeking help for them in psychiatric grounds. In the 19th century, mentally ill prisoners were finally transferred from judicial to psychiatric settings (Chunn and Menzies 307). Incarceration of mentally ill prisoners is an act of wrong, because people as humans should always seek to help those who cannot understand nor help themselves. While justice was brought to the mentally ill criminals with transfer to …show more content…

Mental illnesses were acted upon with neglect, restraint, and punishment, but doctors began to realize how unhelpful many of those things are. Medicine was not to be used as a primary control, while kindness combined with firmness, fresh air, healthy occupation, good food, well-ventilated dwellings, and attention to general health, became a paramount importance (Ernst 542). It was a huge turn for psychology and treatment when actual humane care began to give actual help to the mentally ill in contrast from evil care. Treatment was beginning to take course into a better environment within mental hospitals, as well as gender roles began to take a toll of equality in these

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