Articles for tag: abuse, care, ethics, law, punishment, standards, treatment

Punishment in Psychiatry

Nobody in their right mind would consider ‘punishment’ as a means of treating patients in psychiatry of today – or so you might think. Punishment was a part of treatment in the history of behavioural modification. To be 100% clear no contributor at this website thinks that punishment should be brought back into psychiatry or …

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Hysteria, physician assisted paroxysms and sexual relations

This post is an off-shoot from Strange Medical Treatments in History. Introduction I began digging deeper into many of those treatments but then got stuck on what was termed ‘Physician Assisted Paroxysms‘ (PAP). I became totally flabbergasted by what I found. It would have been too much to add to that post, so I decided …

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