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unusual facts about mental illness



Erbkrank

Directed by Herbert Gerdes, it was one of six propagandistic movies produced by the "NSDAP, Reichsleitung, Rassenpolitisches Amt" or the Office of Racial Policy, from 1935 to 1937 to demonize people in Germany diagnosed with mental illness and mental retardation.

Lake Academy

The school describes its student population as somewhat composed of "reluctant learners" who may also be dealing with substance abuse or chemical dependency, mental or emotional health issues, truancy, delinquency, attention or organization difficulties, and/or academic deficiencies.

Norman Wexler

He was reported to have suffered from severe mental illness, reportedly bipolar disorder, and was arrested in 1972 for threatening to shoot President Richard Nixon.

Ocean Breeze, Staten Island

Immediately to the east of Staten Island University Hospital is the South Beach Psychiatric Center, a state institution for the mentally ill which opened shortly after the aforementioned hospital did.

Order of the Holy Ghost

These now focused on a single institution, the original and by this time extremely large Arcispedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia, the buildings of which dated from the time of Pope Sixtus IV (1471–84), which at its height was capable of accommodating over 1,000 patients, with additional spaces for contagious and for dangerously insane cases, and more than 100 medical staff, and an international remit.

Sylvia Plath effect

The Sylvia Plath effect is a term coined by psychologist James C. Kaufman in 2001 to refer to the phenomenon that poets are more susceptible to mental illness than other creative writers.

The Rejected

Each man espoused his belief that sodomy laws should be repealed because in his opinion homosexuality was a mental illness.


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1996 in LGBT rights

November 18 – Evelyn Hooker, whose research helped lead to declassifying homosexuality as a mental illness.

A Hole in One

In his DVD commentary for A Hole in One, Ledes mentions other insightful sources: Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness and Last Resort: Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness by Jack David Pressman.

A Mouthful of Birds

The play's perspective on mental illness and sexuality is strongly influenced by the work of Michel Foucault, who also wrote a monograph on the life of Herculine Barbin, as well as David Lan's own anthropological work on possession and non-Western religions.

Bethesda project

Located at 15th and South Streets, it currently serves as a Safe Haven where 20 vulnerable men with untreated mental illness or addictions are offered an array of supportive services to stabilize their medical and mental health conditions to help prepare them for more independent living.

Courthouse dog

Courthouse dogs also provide assistance to Drug Court and Mental Health Court participants during their recovery from drugs, alcohol, mental illness and post-traumatic stress syndrome.

E-meter

On January 4, 1963, more than one hundred E-meters were seized by US marshals at the "Founding Church of Scientology" building, now known as the L. Ron Hubbard House, located in Washington, D.C. The sect was accused of making false claims that the devices effectively treated some 70 percent of all physical and mental illness.

Efi Thodi

As of May 2009, the above led Thodi to a mental illness clinic of Sismanogleion hospital.

Grow

GROW, a non-profit peer support and mutual aid organization for recovery from, and prevention of, serious mental illness

Ian Brockington

Along with Ramesh Kumar, he produced two volumes, Motherhood and Mental Illness, and Motherhood and Mental Illness, Causes and Consequences.

Istres

Some media reports have said that he had a history of mental illness while the RTL Group claim he is affiliated with Al-Qaeda.

Jacques-Émile Blanche

Among the painter's most famous works are portraits of his father, Marcel Proust (private collection, Paris), the poet Pierre Louÿs, the Thaulow family (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), Aubrey Beardsley (National Portrait Gallery, London), and Yvette Guilbert and the infamous beauty Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione whom his father had treated for mental illness.

Kirche am Steinhof

Among the numerous saints attending the ceremony is Saint Dymphna the patron saint of those afflicted by epilepsy or mental illness.

Lamb's Conduit Street

Notable residents include John Lind (1737–1781), the barrister, political activist and pamphleteer; John Haslam (1764–1844), the apothecary, physician and medical writer, known for his work on mental illness; and Henry Revell Reynolds (1745–1811) the physician.

M. Brewster Smith

Smith was the vice president of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health, an independent organization created by the United States Congress in 1955 to study the care of the nation's mentally ill.

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine

Scull argues that Cotton's obsession with focal sepsis as the root cause of mental illness "persisted in spite of all evidence to the contrary and the frightening incidence of death and harm from the operations he initiated".

Manhattan Psychiatric Center

Wilhelm Steinitz, the first undisputed world chess champion, was hospitalized with mental illness possibly caused by syphilis, and died there on August 12, 1900.

Midnight Lamp

A young woman raped by her father, and doomed by the crippling mental illness that is her heritage, featuring on the reality TV show hosted by Bollywood import, the truly wonderful Puusi Meera .

Moral treatment

Interest in mental illness was a feature of the Edinburgh medical school in the eighteenth century, with influential teachers including William Cullen (1710–1790) and Robert Whytt (1714–1766) emphasising the clinical importance of psychiatric disorders.

Occupational therapy

100 BCE, Greek physician Asclepiades initiated humane treatment of patients with mental illness using therapeutic baths, massage, exercise, and music.

Prada gender discrimination case

Prada responded by purging her from the company, accusing her of mental illness and escalate it until she never came back.

Procovery

As William Anthony describes, "Recovery involves the development of new meaning and purposes in one’s life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of mental illness."

Richard G. Wilkinson

He is best known for his book with Kate Pickett The Spirit Level, first published in 2009, which claims that societies with more equal distribution of incomes have better health, fewer social problems such as violence, drug abuse, teenage births, mental illness, obesity, and others, and are more cohesive than ones in which the gap between the rich and poor is greater.

Rind et al. controversy

The first substantial and public reaction was a December criticism by the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality, an organization dedicated to the discredited view that homosexuality is a mental illness that can be cured by psychotherapy.

Robin Skynner

Robin Skynner (16 August 1922, Cornwall – September 2000, Islington, London) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot who flew the Mosquito twin-engined fighter bomber, and was also a psychiatric pioneer and innovator in the field of treating mental illness.

Sarah-Jane and Anna Flannagan

The newspaper accounts also recorded the subsequent determination that Anna Flannagan was experiencing mental illness and needed to be admitted to Sunnyside Hospital from Lyttelton Gaol in 1892, as well as that of the appeal to William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow (the Governor General of New Zealand) for clemency in parliamentary official records, and a subsequent petition that requested the release of Anna Flannagan from Sunnyside in 1894.

Self-help groups for mental health

# Social comparison theory: Individuals with similar mental illness are attracted to each other in order to establish a sense of normalcy for themselves.

State Hospital

Noel Ruddle, who served seven years for shooting his next door neighbour with a semi-automatic Kalashnikov type rifle in 1991, was given an absolute discharge by a sheriff because his mental illness was deemed untreatable.

Tanacu exorcism

Father Corogeanu thought that it was not just a mental illness, but rather she was possessed by Satan.