Mother’s Little Helper: Psychiatry, Gender, and the Rise of Psychopharmaceuticals
Dig: A History Podcast
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Neurology and Psychiatry
Overcrowding also meant that it was nearly impossible to actually provide treatment. Most of the day to day corco care of patients was left to nurses who were themselves frustrated and overworked, resulting in cruelty and mismanagement. Desperate to maintain control, attendants often resorted to restraints like strait jackets, utica cribs or locked rooms to keep patients easy to manage. Neurologists worked outside the asylum in private practice, which typically made them both famous and wealthy. And will come back around to a mitchell and the rest cure towards the end of the episode.
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