Psychiatry and Asylums

Psychiogy emerging as a distinctive profession, there is the idea that we're really going to find diseases like there were in general medicine. When american psychiatry was faced with a problem that its practitioners couldn't agree about a given case and where they fit, they starteda to kind of tick the boxes approach to diagnosis. You begin your study with yousil s of 18 twenties america. And you know, on you st not to think about asylums immediately. People sort have negative connotations of the idea. But you do point out that when these institutions were begun, these asylums as back in the 18 twenties, there was a sort of post enlightenment optimism about them.