While this label did include mentally ill patients, other imprisoned deviants included vagabonds, the poor, criminals, and the unemployed. Also important is to note that this undertaking occurred in conjunction with a change in attitude towards idleness and moral obligation. Society believed that forcing “deviants” to partake in manual labor could figuratively mold them back into healthy and productive members of society. This approach did help re-integrate certain patients back into society; mainly the poor and the criminals that lacked adequate professional skills to thrive as productive members of society. It did absolutely nothing, however, to the patients that truly experienced mental illness. In creating an over encompassing label and refusing to address the medical symptoms experienced by the mentally sick, 17th century society inadvertently used autocratic control to hinder therapy. Although there were clearly ulterior motives, this offbeat approach to therapy seems like it could theoretically be helpful. In practice, however, the results proved
While this label did include mentally ill patients, other imprisoned deviants included vagabonds, the poor, criminals, and the unemployed. Also important is to note that this undertaking occurred in conjunction with a change in attitude towards idleness and moral obligation. Society believed that forcing “deviants” to partake in manual labor could figuratively mold them back into healthy and productive members of society. This approach did help re-integrate certain patients back into society; mainly the poor and the criminals that lacked adequate professional skills to thrive as productive members of society. It did absolutely nothing, however, to the patients that truly experienced mental illness. In creating an over encompassing label and refusing to address the medical symptoms experienced by the mentally sick, 17th century society inadvertently used autocratic control to hinder therapy. Although there were clearly ulterior motives, this offbeat approach to therapy seems like it could theoretically be helpful. In practice, however, the results proved