Actually the state hospitals were a vast improvement over the asylums -- which were essentially holding pens for anyone deemed unfit.
The danger is the state hospitals is that this was the era of eugenics and the beginning of experimentation in psychiatry. While the insulin-induced seizures were not yet tested, the idea of "shocking" the brain into fixing itself was already being discussed.
And then we enter the 1930s and the nightmare era.
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Actually the state hospitals were a vast improvement over the asylums -- which were essentially holding pens for anyone deemed unfit.
The danger is the state hospitals is that this was the era of eugenics and the beginning of experimentation in psychiatry. While the insulin-induced seizures were not yet tested, the idea of "shocking" the brain into fixing itself was already being discussed.
And then we enter the 1930s and the nightmare era.