Post 2 - The introduction

The Psychiatric Hospitals have been a very important and conflictive theme to talk about in the psychology, because of the long history of negligence and malpractice that affect the patients that are hospitalize there, the bad conditions of them and the workers, and fundamentally the maltreatment and therapies that denigrate the nature of person that all the patients for right have.

Over this paper, we will compile information about what is a Psychriatic Hospital, the characteristics that have a person to stay there, the way that they organize everything and we will evaluate the better known cases of Psychiatric Hospitals that have violated the human rights with their abuses and experiments (“Deva Hospital”, “Whittingham Hospital”, “St.Marys Hospital”, “Philadelphia Hospital”, “Hellingly Hospital” and “Severalls Hospital”), and how this bad practices and therapies affect the persons and their mental stability, instead of help them in their sickness. And also, how the figure of Psychiatric Hospitals, according to the philosopher Michel Foucault, is related to the disciplinary power as a way to control the society.

This is a very important research, because is necessary that the society stop to think that what happens in a Psychiatric Hospital is a normal way to treat the persons that have mental illness. And in addition, we normally think that this is a phenomenon that happened in the past, but to the contrary to the beliefs, is something that is still happening, but we don´t realize. And finally to conclude we will check the contemporary cases of hospitals where the electroshock therapy is completely legal in nowadays.