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The mad, the bad, and the worried (Age of Anxiety (Pill Popping culture -…

- - - - In the midst of the Golden Age, new drugs promised to control patients, such as new tranquilizers (Thorazine) or .
    - - Began with 1946 National Mental Health Act that prompted psychiatrists to move towards community-based centers
      - Images such as the Snake Pit which portrayed the pitiful conditions of a mental asylum with overcrowding, understaffed, and various other issues
      - Muckraking articles that exposed the state of prisons. Life Magazine had their own expose of mental hospitals.
        
        According to Bedlam piece: " They were kicked, beaten severely, screamed at, handcuffed for days, things like lack of window panes in a cold room were ignored, the food they served them was unacceptable"
        
        According to Bedlam piece: In 1942, due to beatings of patients, US Public Health Service investigated all of CT's mental health institutions
    - - Life Magazine - Hospitals listed more staff than they had
      - Article in Cleveland Press critiquing the Ohio system for mental health institutions. Resulted in the Ohio governor making some small needed changes.
    - - Erving Goffman believed that institutions themselves made people crazy
        
        Ken Kesey - one flew over the cuckoo's nest - nurse Ratchet character forced characters to be subservient and do her bidding
- - - - Parents could prevent delinquency and mental illness through good parenting
        
        "Case of the Furious Children" reading