Controversies in Psychiatric History: The Dark Chapters

Photo by Jon Butterworth on Unsplash Learning How Psychiatry Began and Controversies in Psychiatric History Over the decades, psychiatry—the area of medicine that focuses on mental health—has advanced significantly.  Compassion, evidence-based treatment, and...

The Evolution of Painful Treatments: When Medicine Meets Misery

Photo by dolgo ph on Unsplash The evolution of painful treatments is a tragic yet fascinating tale that reflects humanity's ongoing struggle to understand and control the human body. Throughout history, medicine has been a means of healing and a source of immense...

Unethical Treatments in Psychology: Line Between Treatment and Torture

Understanding the human mind has long been at the center of universal intrigue, and in an attempt to do so, psychology has, more than once, blurred ethical lines. To effectively unravel humanity’s intricacies, psychologists had to start somewhere. Unfortunately, for...

Book 1

https://www.amazon.com/Asylum-Scandals-Corruption-Minnesotas-Hospitals/dp/1977256902

book 4

https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Gales-Rose-Hanged-Twice/dp/143279129X

The Overlooked Mental Health Crisis: Breaking the Chains

Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash Tied up with the overlooked mental health crisis is the growing concern of tossing aside mental health and dismissing its impact on many individuals. It's about time we continue to address and discuss this problem to raise awareness...

Horrors Of An Asylum: The History and Evolution of Asylums

Photo by Jon Butterworth on Unsplash Before the evolution of asylums into the mental health hospitals and clinics we have today, being institutionalised for being mentally ill or unable to function in society meant being confined to an asylum. For centuries, people...

Book 3

https://www.amazon.com/Calamity-Yellow-Medicine-County-Minnesota/dp/1478799889

Gritting Your Teeth & Such: Mental Healthcare in the Far Past

Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko Asylum Scandals by Patricia Lubeck focuses on the many horrors and tragedies that occurred inside some specific asylums in the past. Reading the madness that went inside those walls, you'd be infinitely glad that there have been...

The Dual Reality of Asylums: A Sanctuary or a Prison?

Photo by Sean Robertson on Unsplash The reality of asylums has long been a gripping subject of debate - are they places of refuge, a sanctuary perhaps, or institutions of confinement or what we consider as a prison? What really goes behind the asylum walls? In the...

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