peyton!’s Reviews > Abnormal psychology;: An experimental clinical approach > Status Update

I really wonder why people used to think of people with mental illnesses as animals.
the book describes a 1790’s Paris asylum where everyone was chained to walls and given horrible food because the people watching over the mentally ill didn’t believe the “patients” cared whether the food was good or not..

how does this happen?

I still find it wild how mental illness used to be thought of as being caused by demons or the supernatural, that priests were the ones to “help” people with mental illnesses

I’m excited to dig thru this book

so far I’m reading literally everything, but I’m sure I’ll give in eventually and skip around rather that reading every word on every page. I haven’t gotten to actual psych yet, only background info and authors’ opinions, but it’s surprisingly interesting anyways? I wasn’t expecting the history lesson I’m getting