References:
https://online.csp.edu/blog/psychology/history-of-mental-illness-treatment/
https://www.everydayhealth.com/pictures/worst-mental-health-treatments-history/
A treasure trove of articles on inhumane mental health practices
History of inhumane mental health treatments from talkspace
Outdated and outlandish treatments
The good, bad and inhumane
Mental Floss article on mind-boggling treatments
Dorothea Dix’s tireless fight to end inhumane treatment for mental health patients
https://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/odd-psychiatric-treatments#page=2
https://sunrisehouse.com/research/history-evolution-mental-health-treatment/
https://www.mdlinx.com/article/-barbaric-medical-practices-still-used-today/lfc-3762
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/may/mental-health-conditionsubstance-use-comparing-us-other-countries
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-quackery/history-hysteria
https://allthatsinteresting.com/henry-cotton
https://daily.jstor.org/the-unproven-deadly-common-cure-for-schizophrenia/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudanum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincture
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/149002
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/89268/lure-laudanum-victorians-favorite-drug
https://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2013/02/poetry-pain-and-opium-in-victorian-england-elizabeth-barrett-brownings-use-of-laudanum.html
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/heroin/history/laudlady.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/prefrontal-cortex
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15629160
https://www.livescience.com/42199-lobotomy-definition.html
https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/43/3/article-pE6.xml
https://allthatsinteresting.com/rosemary-kennedy-lobotomy
https://www.mcleanhospital.org/essential/ect-shouldnt-be-last-resort-treatment
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electroconvulsive-therapy-a-history-of-controversy-but-also-of-help/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentylenetetrazol
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electroconvulsive-therapy-a-history-of-controversy-but-also-of-help/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/electroconvulsive-therapy/about/pac-20393894
https://www.mcleanhospital.org/essential/ect-shouldnt-be-last-resort-treatment
https://www.healthline.com/health/electroconvulsive-therapy#benefits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.97.3.667
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