In the early part of history, during the ancient times, mental illness was perceived as evil and demonic. The people who suffered any mental abnormality would be cruelly punished. Throughout the world’s lifespand, civilizations, religions, and certain time periods treated mentally ill people in different ways to heal them.
Around the 300 BC era, Aristotle believed mental disorders correlated with physical disorders and concluded that blood, water, and bile in body played a role with the erratic behavior and the treatment for this time period was to improve the balance through bloodletting, starving, and purging (Lippincott CoursePoint).
The Christians from (1-1000 AD) rationalized the idea that the mentally ill were possessed with evil spirits and filled with demons. Priests would perform exorcisms and would incarcerate the people in dungeons. (Lippincott CoursePoint).
By the Renaissance era, there was a transition in the perception and the treatment for mental illness. The harmless individuals had the privilege to explore outdoors and live in the communities, and the threatening individuals were…show more content… Fulton State Hospital would hold patients in small, metal cages, and the patients could be placed in the cages for two weeks to a month (Glore Psychiatric Museum). The hospitals would even stack the cages on top of other patients. Another method the hospitals would use was the Tranquilizer Chair. This was created by Benjamin Rush. A disturbed patient would be strapped into the chair until they were calm (Glore Psychiatric Museum). The chair eliminated any mobility because it confined their arms, legs, head, and body. While the patient was trapped in the chair, doctors would perform treatments such as bloodletting by a knife or with leeches, or they would place the patient’s feet in hot water(Glore Psychiatric
