The History of Psychogeriatrics in the United States

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, elderly individuals with severe mental illness living in the United States were cared for in state-run facilities that went by various names (asylums, psychopathic hospitals, state hospitals, state mental hospitals, and medical centers). Since the beginning of the 20th century, approximately 20% of patients in state hospital facilities had brain diseases such as dementia, usually complicated by behavioral disorder.

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A brief history of the criminalization of mental illness

CNS Spectrums ◽

10.1017/s1092852920000103 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 25 (5) ◽

pp. 638-650 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Joel A. Dvoskin ◽

James L. Knoll ◽

Mollie Silva

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

United States ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Community Mental Health ◽

Mental Disorders ◽

The United States ◽

Mental Illnesses ◽

The People ◽

History Of ◽

Serious Mental Illnesses

This article traces the history of the way in which mental disorders were viewed and treated, from before the birth of Christ to the present day. Special attention is paid to the process of deinstitutionalization in the United States and the failure to create an adequately robust community mental health system to care for the people who, in a previous era, might have experienced lifelong hospitalization. As a result, far too many people with serious mental illnesses are living in jails and prisons that are ill-suited and unprepared to meet their needs.

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Are Honor Killings Unique? A Comparison of Honor Killings, Domestic Violence Homicides, and Hate Homicides by Far-Right Extremists

Homicide Studies ◽

10.1177/1088767917736796 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 70-93 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Brittany E. Hayes ◽

Colleen E. Mills ◽

Joshua D. Freilich ◽

Steven M. Chermak

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Domestic Violence ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Criminal Justice ◽

Open Source ◽

The United States ◽

Far Right ◽

Honor Killings ◽

History Of ◽

Domestic Violence History

This study compared honor killings, domestic violence homicides, and hate homicides committed by far-right extremists. Prior research has suggested that terrorists may differ from “regular” offenders whereas others suggest similarities. Data from the Extremist Crime Database were used to compare honor killings committed in the United States since 1990 to domestic violence and hate homicides ( N = 48). Open-source documents were closed coded for criminal justice involvement, domestic violence history, motivation, and offenders’ mental illness. Honor killings were more likely to have a history of domestic violence in open sources than hate homicides, suggesting these three homicides may be more similar than different.

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A history of Academic Medical Centers and Children’s Hospital designations in the United States

The Journal of Pediatrics ◽

10.1016/j.jpeds.2005.08.072 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 148 (2) ◽

pp. 147-148

Author(s):

Anthony F. Philipps ◽

Lisa S. Trask

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Academic Medical Centers ◽

Children's Hospital ◽

Medical Centers ◽

Academic Medical ◽

Children’S Hospital ◽

History Of

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The Chemical Imbalance Hypothesis: An Evaluation of the Evidence

Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry ◽

10.1891/1559-4343.17.1.60 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 60-75 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

William Schultz

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Popular Culture ◽

Scientific Evidence ◽

Antidepressant Medication ◽

The United States ◽

Pharmaceutical Companies ◽

Alternative Approach ◽

History Of ◽

Chemical Imbalance

Powered by philosophic argument, scientific evidence, and multibillion dollar pharmaceutical companies sponsoring multimillion dollar advertising campaigns, the chemical imbalance hypothesis has saturated our academic and popular culture. This saturation is, at least partially, responsible for the more than 10 billion dollars annually spent on antidepressant medication in the United States. But what is the “chemical imbalance” hypothesis? And what evidence supports it? This article will provide an account of the chemical imbalance hypothesis, a history of its development, and the evidence provided for its justification. This article will show that the evidence for the chemical imbalance hypothesis is unconvincing. It will discuss why, despite the unconvincing evidence, the hypothesis lingers. And, finally, it will suggest an alternative approach to mental illness that avoids some of the pitfalls of a biological reductionistic account of mind.

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The Rise of Gay Rights and the Disavowal of Disability in the United States

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190234959.013.27 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Regina Kunzel

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Gay Rights ◽

The United States ◽

Critical Disability Studies ◽

Statistical Manual ◽

Disability History ◽

Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽

History Of ◽

Psychiatric Establishment

Homosexuality has a complex history of entwinement with disability, marked most notably by its long-standing designation as a form of mental illness. That attribution was anticipated by nineteenth-century sexologists and promoted by mid-twentieth-century psychiatrists. In the years that followed, gay and lesbian activists worked to distance themselves from that stigmatizing association, successfully lobbying to remove “homosexuality” from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1973. Revisited here is the history of the gay liberationist battle against the psychiatric establishment as viewed through the analytical lenses offered by critical disability studies and disability history. Also tracked are the exclusionary and stigmatizing effects of the insistence on homosexuality as “healthy.”

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Healers and Healthcare

Religion and Medicine ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190867355.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 18-44

Author(s):

Jeff Levin

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Early Church ◽

Healthcare Facilities ◽

Roman World ◽

Greco Roman ◽

Medical Centers ◽

Faith Traditions ◽

History Of

Chapter 2 narrates the history of religious healers from the time of the ancients through developments in Asia and the Greco-Roman world and in the early church. The chapter also describes the origins of hospitals as religiously sponsored institutions of care for the sick. These institutions emerged globally, across faith traditions—in the pagan world, in Christianity, in Islam, in the global East—and they remain today largely an expression of religious outreach. This can be observed in the United States, for example, in the countless religiously branded hospitals, medical centers, and healthcare facilities in most communities that go by names such as Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Adventist, Episcopal, Jewish, and so on.

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