Discordances of harmonic mental functioning are as old as the human kind.
Psychopathological behaviour of an individual in the past was not treated as
an illness. That means that psychopathology was not considered an illness. In
all past civilizations discordance of mental harmony of an individual is
interpreted from the physiological aspect. Psychopathologic expression was
not considered an illness, so social attitudes about psychiatric patients in
the past were non-medical and generally speaking inhuman. Hospitals did not
follow development of medicine for admission of psychiatric patients in past
civilizations, not even in the antique era. According to historic sources,
the first hospital that was meant for mental patients only was established in
the 15th century, 1409 in Valencia (Spain). Therefore mental patients were
isolated in a special institution-hospital, and social community rejected
them. Only in the new era psychopathological behavior begins to be treated as
an illness. Therefore during the 19th century psychiatry is developed as a
special branch of medicine, and mental disorder is more and more seen
according to the principals of interpretation of physical illnesses. By the
middle of the 19th century psychiatric hospitals are humanized, and patients
are being less physically restricted. Deinstitutialisation in protection of
mental health is the heritage of reforms from the beginning of the 19th
century which regarded the prevention of mental health protection. It was
necessary to develop institutions of the prevention of protection in the
community which would primarily have social support and characteristics.
Development of hospital treatment of persons with mental disorders