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    This document provides a history of psychiatric nursing and views of mental illness over time. It discusses that historically, mental illness was viewed as either divine punishment, demonic possession, or caused by imbalances of bodily fluids. Treatment involved bloodletting, starvation, and exorcism. The development of asylums in the 15th-17th centuries marked a shift to viewing the mentally ill as in need of care rather than punishment. Key figures like Pinel and Dix advocated for more humane treatment in hospitals. The document then summarizes the history of views and treatment of mental illness in the Philippines from ancient to modern times.

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    This document provides a history of psychiatric nursing and views of mental illness over time. It discusses that historically, mental illness was viewed as either divine punishment, demonic possession, or caused by imbalances of bodily fluids. Treatment involved bloodletting, starvation, and exorcism. The development of asylums in the 15th-17th centuries marked a shift to viewing the mentally ill as in need of care rather than punishment. Key figures like Pinel and Dix advocated for more humane treatment in hospitals. The document then summarizes the history of views and treatment of mental illness in the Philippines from ancient to modern times.

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    HISTORY OF

    PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
    MENTAL ILLNESS
    • Punishment for :
    • s _ _ _ and w_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ g
    • sins and wrongdoing
    • Viewed as either divine or demonic, depending on their
    behavior
    ARISTOTLE (383-322 BC)
    • Relate disorders to physical disorders and his theory
    that amounts of blood, water, and yellow and black bile
    in the body controlled the emotions (corresponds with
    happiness, calmness, anger, and sadness).
    • Treatment: bloodletting, starving, and purging (till 19th
    century)
    • Mentally ill were viewed as
    possessed.
    • Priests performed
    exorcism
    • When failed, they used
    more severe and brutal
    measures such as
    incarceration in dungeons,
    flogging, and starving
    • Distinguished from
    criminals
    • 1547 - Hospital of St. Mary
    of Bethlehem was officially
    declared as hospital for
    the insane.
    • 1775- Charged for a fee for
    a privilege of viewing and
    ridiculing the inmates who
    were seen as animal rather
    than human.
    • Philippe Pinel (1745- 1826)
    • William Tuke (1732- 1822)
    • Human dignity upheld
    • Asylum movement
    developed
    • One of the first major reformers in the United
    States
    • Was instrumental in developing the concept of
    asylum
    • In 1841, Dorothea Dix crusaded for better
    treatment of institutionalized mentally ill
    individuals
    • More humane treatment
    • Establishment of hospitals for the mentally ill
    SIX MAJOR PERIODS OF
    PHILIPPINE ILLNESS
    TREATMENT IN PHILIPPINE
    HISTORY
    • Believed that the world is
    eqaully material and
    spiritual
    • Relied on : Babaylan
    (shaman) and Sorcerer
    healing
    • Rituals and ceremonies
    • Treatment:
    • herbmen or herbolarios
    • Filipinos believed that mental
    illness was caused by an act of
    sorcery (mangkukulam or • Treatment:
    • brought to church for
    witches and manggagaway or exorcism or ritual
    devil men) cleaning
    • Hospicio de San Jose -
    organized treatment and
    care for individuals with
    mental illness
    • Spanish naval authorities
    requested for a place of
    confinement for their
    mentally ill sailors
    Two Americans provided treatment for mentally ill
    patients of Civil Hospitals located in Calle Iris (Claro
    M. Recto Ave.)

    In 1904, the insane department was opened at the


    San Lorenzo Hospital

    DR. ELIAS First physician to attain formal training in psychiatry


    DOMINGO in the US
    • WWII
    • National psychopathic
    hospital continued to
    operate
    • The Japanese Army
    donated an electroshock
    apparatus to the hospital
    • The National Psychopathic Hospital was renamed
    National Mental Hospital
    • Dr. Jose A. Fernandez - officer-in-charge from October
    1946 to April 1961
    PRESENT DAY
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