DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Deinstitutionalisation, Phenothiazine, Antipsychotic
17 Dec 2015
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Asylum populations grew tenfold in the later 19th century. Anti-institution movements began in the mid 1800s. Political economists said that institutions were meant for moneymaking, whether right or not. By the 60s, deinstitutionalization of asylums was widespread. Between 1955 and 2000 the u. s state mental health population. Decline of mental hospital and the increase in community-based: development of an effective antipsychotic medication treatment is often accredited to two things: People were being released from hospitals before antipsychotics were administered. Patients on placebos did better than those on phenothiazine. Drug studies were flawed: demonstration by liberal social scientists (i. e. irving goffman) about mental institutions being inhumane. Inmates were discharged before supposed research was done on therapeutic benefits of the community. The state actually demonstrated a lack of concern for patients. Only an illusion that they are actually living in a community. Social restructuring and the creation of the welfare state made.
