DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Centre For Addiction And Mental Health, European Cooperation In Science And Technology, Andrew Scull
31 Mar 2017
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The end of the asylum: deinstitutionalization and chemical incarceration. Decarceration - politicized - mad people were incarcerated, institution = incarceration. Normalize, contain madness, social control, cleaning up space aka building space free of degeneracy and deviant identities. History of madness = history of institutionalization. Camh - many immigrants, poor people, not necessarily mad. Mad people have been contained for hundreds of years. Site of control has shifted, become more community-based. By end of 19th c, all provinces had asylum. Closing of asylums, people moved into community. When people were released, there were no social supports, no housing, no aftercare, no job training, just dumped. Inmates were being released before antipsychotics were introduced to asylum population therefore can"t attribute deinstitutionalization to drugs. Myth: we suddenly started to care about mad people. Goffman suggested institution itself was flawed--not about (lack of) funding, is fundamentally flawed.
