Mental illness and the rise of psychiatry from the 1940s and so the 1960s. I want to first make it clear to you that this is the same era as the era we covered when we were talking about one flew over the cuckoos nest. As you know, this is a segment in the class that talks about two different approaches to Mental Illness. One was the treatment that we saw a lot of in the film and in the book, and also psychotic treatments that we actually started to think about and when about just a few weeks ago. We looked at how in the hospital they were in men and women treated differently because of their presumed sexual orientation, or problematic behavior based on societal expectations on how a woman should act. We talked about that and that is something they actively used, the therapeutic treatments, not the traditional analysis. We also looked at maybe you are familiar with Harry Stack Sullivan. That is where we were when we talk about psychoanalysis. Now we will continue to talk about psychoan
Mental illness and the rise of psychiatry from the 1940s and so the 1960s. I want to first make it clear to you that this is the same era as the era we covered when we were talking about one flew over the cuckoos nest. As you know, this is a segment in the class that talks about two different approaches to Mental Illness. One was the treatment that we saw a lot of in the film and in the book, and also psychotic treatments that we actually started to think about and when about just a few weeks ago. We looked at how in the hospital they were in men and women treated differently because of their presumed sexual orientation, or problematic behavior based on societal expectations on how a woman should act. We talked about that and that is something they actively used, the therapeutic treatments, not the traditional analysis. We also looked at maybe you are familiar with Harry Stack Sullivan. That is where we were when we talk about psychoanalysis. Now we will continue to talk about psychoan
Alexander Stille’s The Sullivanians documents the sordid history and fascinating intellectual roots of a psychotherapy group that proposed a utopian alternative to conventional family life.