implications of societies treatment to the mentally ill. He begins with in the past and

present about the maltreatment of people suffering from psychotic illnesses. Where in

New York City, these people find refuge in subway tunnels, and depend on cardboard

fragments for comfort. These conditions are considered to be sprayed out through urban

Paul mentions that our nation has turned it's back and abandoned the mentally ill.

In the period of colonial and federalist period this nation depended on Almshouses and

jails to house the mentally ill. The mentally ill were accompanied with killers and thieves

where they were often treated with cruelty similar to criminals.

The change happened in mid 19th century, a small number of physicians begun a

system called "moral" care. This physicians were devoted to a therapeutic system. Where

rational ideas gave ways to a different kind of treatment that kindness and, encour

purging, cold baths, and whirling chairs. Also this drug lessen the mental burdens for

injustice but it failed. The government officials actually created more poverty and more

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)