Two or more prisoners slept on each wooden plank, even though they were meant for one person each. There was a total of 180 sleeping places throughout each of the sleeping huts. Again, Gelissen recalls where her sister and she lived. The floor was made up of dirt and their only blanket was a small rag. The only beds these buildings had were three tiers of wood planks.
People have struggled with the concept of Mental Illness since the middle ages. In the Middle Ages if someone was behaving is an abnormal manner they were thought to be possessed by demons and they will be exorcised by priests. In the 1900s lobotomy was widely known as the cure for mental illnesses. In the 1940’s Walter Freeman went on a crusade to offer lobotomy to everyone that needed it (and some that didn’t) and in his career it is estimated that he performed 3500 lobotomies, even when the scientific basis for this was not very strong. In the 1960’s a group of psychiatrists’ formed the anti-psychiatry movement and stated that psychiatry had no validity.
Ed Gein was a highly notable psychopath in American history. We will discuss his life, his crimes, his mental capacities, and how it relates to symptoms of psychopathy. The goal of this paper is to increase
On the following page, the narrator admits “I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time” (247). Then at night, “And dear John gathered me up in his arms, and just carried me upstairs and laid me on the bed, and sat by me and read to me till it tired my head” (248). The following references support the realization that as time goes by, the narrator becomes so ill that she is literally as helpless as an infant. Furthermore, when the narrator is frightened at night, John comforts her, referring to her as “little girl” and “Bless her little heart!” (249). The narrator begins to have nightmares and she says that John is forcing her to lie a lot during the day, and he makes her rest after every meal (Gilman 250).
Peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350, and thought to have originated in China, the disease was transported by oriental fleas travelling on the backs of rats in certain travelling merchant ships and with the Mongolian armies, both travelling west. It is estimated to have killed around 30% to 60% of the population of Europe. The plague gradually travelled through Italy and France before arriving in south western England in the summer of 1348 - Bristol being one of the first cities to suffer it’s effects, as rumours of a ‘pestilence sweeping through Europe’ (Henry Knighton 1348) spread throughout the towns of England - but unfortunately it did not prepare them for the magnitude of what was coming their way. It spread through Bristol quickly, the cramped and dirty living conditions contributing to the plagues devastating effects. Contemporaries wrote in horror of
You are an ogre. Let me go, or I will tell my papa." (Shelley 127) When the creature approaches William he screams and runs away in terror. This makes the monster feel very alone and he becomes enraged and eventually ends up strangling William to death. He then takes a picture of Caroline Frankenstein that the boy has been holding and places it in the folds of the dress of a girl sleeping in a barn—Justine Moritz, who is later executed for William’s murder.
Medical History, 2002, 46: 175-196 Madness, Suicide and the Victorian Asylum: Attempted Self-Murder in the Age of Non-Restraint ANNE SHEPHERD and DAVID WRIGHT* Introduction On 20 July 1870, Catherine Tyrrell found herself transferred to another asylum. The 32-year-old nurse suffering from melancholia had previously been a private patient in Bethlem Hospital; but, having had her twelve months expire at that institution,' she was conveyed across the metropolis and into the bucolic countryside and county asylum of Buckinghamshire.2 Up to this point, Catherine had had a long and sad history of suicide attempts and food refusal. Indeed, when she was transferred the following year, this time from Buckinghamshire to the Surrey County Asylum
The Amityville Horror: Fact Or Fiction? When you hear horror stories do they intrigue you or do you become apathetic and bored? Many people are aware that horror stories have been around for centuries as means of entertainment, so how can you be sure if what you are hearing is the truth? The Amityville Horror is a story written by Jay Anson, based on the paranormal activities surrounding George and Kathy Lutz and their children after they moved into their home in Amityville, New York. The book was published on September 13, 1977 surrounding a rising epidemic in the interest of the paranormal.
OxyContin: Experience the Euphoria and the Fatality Judy F. Tisdale Texas A&M University-San Antonio The researcher began this paper with a nagging question in her heart, “What is so alluring about this drug, OxyContin”? There are many tragic, senseless deaths throughout the United States and parts of the World due to abuse or addiction to a variety of drugs; however it appears that OxyContin is getting the majority of the attention at this particular time in History. OxyContin was created by Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Connecticut and was introduced in 1995. It is mostly prescribed for Cancer patients and for post operative patients to help ease the severity of their pain. It is a narcotic made from opium and is a time released
The word “Schizophrenia” is less than 100 years old; however schizophrenia has been with humans since the very beginning. In 2,000 B.C in Ancient Egypt mental illnesses were considered signs of physical heart ailments. An Egyptian book called “The book of Heart” is possibly the earliest depiction of schizophrenia. During the middle ages Europeans believed that those who suffered from schizophrenia were possessed by demons so in return, holes were drilled in the skull to “cast out evil spirits” in habiting the mind; These procedures were called trepanations. During the 19th century insane asylums were more like human zoos than treatment centers, for a price, outsiders were able to tour the asylums and view the patients.