History
Believed to be a wandering organ causing mood swings and anxiety, this "wandering" affliction was often used to diagnose women with mental health issues
What is hysteria?
This term, coined by sociologist Erving Goffman, describes the restrictive and isolating life of psychiatric patients in asylums, where individuality was stripped away
What is a "total institution"?
This country has rejected deinstitutionalization.
What is Japan?
What was one major consequence of deinstitutionalization that led to increased drug abuse among individuals with mental illness?
What is “lack of support/resources”?
This popular Halloween activity involves dressing up in costumes and going door-to-door asking for candy.
What is trick-or-treating?
This term, originating from Latin, was once widely used to describe people with mental disorders and is derived from the root word for "moon."
What is "lunatic"?
This notorious surgical procedure, popular in the 1940s and 1950s to treat severe mental illness, involved cutting connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex and was later discontinued due to its harmful effects.
What is a "lobotomy"?
This perspective/lens of mental health aligns with the goal of deinstitutionalization.
What is the Biopsychosocial Lens?
The migration of individuals from one institution to another
What is Trans-institutionalization?
This Michael Jackson song features a famous music video with zombies, which was released in 1982.
What is "Thriller"?
This brutal ritual, intended to expel evil spirits from those thought to be possessed, often left people with lasting physical and emotional scars.
What is an exorcism?
This Toronto institution, originally called the Provincial Lunatic Asylum in 1850, eventually evolved into Canada’s largest mental health and addiction hospital.
What is the "Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)"?
This US president was very passionate about deinstitutionalization because of his familial relation to it.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The specific changes in treatment that were introduced instead of ECT and old medications
What are psychotherapy, support groups, mindfulness, and pharmacotherapy?
This animated television show features a family of monsters and includes characters like Gomez and Morticia.
What is "The Addams Family"?
This French physician, known as the "father of modern psychiatry," famously removed chains from patients in Parisian asylums and advocated for the humane treatment of people with mental illness in the late 1700s.
Who is Philippe Pinel?
This treatment, introduced in 1927 and discontinued in the 1960s, involved inducing comas in patients through injections of a blood sugar-lowering hormone.
What is "insulin coma therapy"?
This Doctor changed the realm of mental health in Canada by founding CAMH.
Who is Dr. Hincks?
Specific policy changes that have been advocated for as a result of the challenges faced after deinstitutionalization.
What are “increased funding”, “more holistic and community-based therapeutic practices”, and “better access to care”?
In this 1993 film, three witch sisters are resurrected on Halloween night.
What is Hocus Pocus?
This extreme treatment for “hysteria” involved weeks or even months of isolation and inactivity, which often worsened the condition of patients instead of providing relief.
What is the rest cure?
This term by Goffman refers to the process in which individuals in psychiatric hospitals lose their former identities and take on the institutional role?
What is "mortification of self"?
In this decade, major legislative reform in favour of deinstitutionalization swept across North America.
What is 1960’s?
The study in Calgary by Milaney et al. (2022) discovered two main findings that show the relation of deinstitutionalization to homelessness.
What are “high rates of mental illnesses and crises”, and “similar asylum characteristics in modern housing systems”?
In 1692, this Massachusetts town became infamous for a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft, leading to several executions.
What is Salem?