Researcher explores coercive measures used in Norwegian asylums
It’s easy to believe that society’s treatment of difficult, violent, and criminally mentally ill people has become more humane over time. But that’s not the case. How patients at the end of the 19th century actually felt is difficult to say, but they were at least less exposed to mechanical coercion, according to an NTNU historian.
Given that psychiatric patients in the 1970s could be strapped to the bed for months, how would patients in Norway have been treated in the early 1900s? Better according to Magne Brekke Rabben.