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Hippocrates a greek physician catigorizes mental illness as a diesease.
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In this midevil time people let the mentally ill roam free but some catagorized them as witches and possesed.
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This was probably around the time the first european establishment was made specifically for the mentaly ill.
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Europeans start to isolate the mentally ill and put them in dungeons with chains.
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Concern for treatment of the mentally ill grows and several reforms are instituted witht the help of French physician Phillippe Pinel.
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Dorthea Dix, a U.S. reformer, works to make 32 more state hospitals for the mentaly ill.
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More funding put into treatments at hospitals so it is more humane.
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The primary treatments of mental disoreder becomes "talking cures" or psychoanalytical therapies. Treament for phycosis is custodial treatment.
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Electro-convulsive therapy, surgery, and drugs are used to treat schizophrenia among other mental illnesses. Lobotomy is also introduced to use as a treatment.
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J. F.J. Cade a Australian pyschatrist intorduces the use of lithium to treat psycosis and bipolar disorder.
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A series of anit-psychotic drugs are made to help with schizophrenia and psychosis.
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There is new type of therapy called behavioral therapy for people to overcome their phobias.
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Deinstittutionalization helps witht he over crowding in institutions and helps some mentallu ill people get better witht he help of anti-psychotic drugs.
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National Alliance for the Mentally Ill is founded and helps with the advocacy, support, eduction, and much more for the mentally ill.
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New anti-psychotic drugs are made that are more effective with less side effects.
