Schreber's Memoirs In Coded Language

Q.37- The men “treating” the protagonist were experimenting on him in order to see the effectiveness of their countless methods of nursing the protagonist back to health, though it had numerous effects on him. For example, he notes his failure to move his body, puzzlement,

Imagine a world in which men could act feminine and women could act masculine without being judged. Now try and identify why this may never happen. Men and women are both taught at an early age what they can and cannot do because of what gender they were born as; they are markedly similar in this aspect. There is a known gender stereotype for girls and boys, and the parents of these children enable these stereotypes from the day that they are born. girls are given pink clothes, and boys are given blue clothes. These colors set the rules of how they must behave for the rest of their lives, this idea is known as The Girl and Guy code. It is all black and white thinking, or in the case pink and blue. There is no in-between because once you stray from the code it is immediately recognized and looked down upon. Although the girl and guy code are almost polar opposites, they go hand in hand with one another because they are both used among society as a way to create a better image in front of others. The Woman looks better in the eyes of other women if she is more lady-like, and a man looks better in front of men if he is more manly; both genders deal with a heavy set of homosocial ideals.

Code Talkers was written by Chester Nez with the help of Judith Schiess Avila. Chester Nez, a Navajo WWII veteran, was one of the original twenty-nine Native Americans who came up with and wrote the top secret Navajo code used during the World War II. This code was a turning point in the war against the Japanese. Judith Avila is a cod talker scholar with the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities Chautauqua Program, she conducted over eighty hours with Chester and his son Michael.

causes the brain to swell and make one feel dizzy light headed and in pain. Those are

American physicians begin to use cocaine in medical practices. Cocaine was identified as a drug that depresses the central nervous system; however it had the exact opposite affect. The only general anesthetics available to physicians were chloroform and ether. These anesthetics would induce retching or vomit and did little for pain. Operations that required precision and detail

Refraining from giving full details to the patient can cause patients to suffer things that they could have avoided. Paragraph 3 of page 128 states, “Within hours, the patients’ forearms grew red and swollen. Five to ten days later, hard nodules began growing at the injection sites.” These symptoms stated could have been avoided if Dr. Southam would have explained what

Part one spans over the years 1750-1900, and elaborates on the developments of varying treatments that were administered to mental patients during this time. Whitaker writes of methods like dunking the patients in water, bloodletting, the tranquilizer

Starkey's "hysterical bobbysoxers" diagnosis has entered the popular canon and school textbooks, while Hansen's verdict of "hysterical in the scientific sense of that term” has been accepted as true by the majority of scholars, Demos, McMillen, and even Karlsen, who treat the cause of affliction as settled and go on to other projects. While I see the cause as not settled, I will look instead at the way the same descriptions of affect have produced such mutually exclusive interpretations -- fraud and illness -- and suggest why fraud went entirely out of fashion, after being accepted for over a century, while hysteria came into fashion oddly, only Upham allows a mixture of fraud and illness. I will suggest that these shifts in interpretation are not founded on any new knowledge or new theories of psychology, but grow out of changes in cultural and ideological attitudes, especially toward women, and that they are made possible by the ambiguities of historical documents, by inadequate analyses of the explanations that were available in 1692, and occasionally by poor reasoning on the part of the historians.

Heather Rose’s first patient is Camilla Loon. She comes for treatment with her daughter Naomi. To Heather Rose, “Camilla’s face was like a worn old leather purse without coins. And she opened her mouth; soft little noises came out, like coos from a dove. Her wooden leg was hurting her” (175).

During February of the remarkably cold winter, a little girl named Betty Parris fell bizarrely ill. She dove under furniture, contorted in pain, complained of fever and dashed about. The cause of Betty’s symptoms might have been some series of delusional psychosis, child abuse, stress, epilepsy, boredom, asthma, and guilt. The signs further might have been caused, as Linder (2009) would debate, by a convulsive ailment called ergotism, caused by excreting

Female Hysteria Hysteria of both genders was widely discussed in the medical literature of the nineteenth century. Women were considered to have exhibited a wide array of symptoms according to motherjones.com, which included faintness, nervousness, sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, "wetness between the thighs", muscle spasm, shortness of breath, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, and a tendency to cause trouble. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– In an episode from the series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, a psychiatrist is seen taking care of several women in the 1920’s. Each women highlights a symptom. From years of being told there is something wrong with them, these women have come to believe what they were hearing.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Silas Weir Mitchell were part of two worlds, one having to live and be treated for a nervous condition and the other having to study the conditions of nerves. Yet, in this particular moment in the late-19th century United States, one can detect a dialogue between doctor and patient in each of their short stories. That is exactly what is detected between Charlotte Perkins Gilman and S. Weir Mitchell. While both The Case of Dedlow and the Yellow Wallpaper use fiction to express themselves more thoroughly about mental health and science, The Case of Dedlow is more concerned with the aspect of scientific case study while the Yellow Wallpaper focuses on indicting science. This paper will compare and contrast the narratives of the aforementioned short stories and discuss the significance of their reception and how their audience understood them.

In the midst of the deadliest war in American History, there stood a voice of morality and reason on the United States soil. Franz Lieber, a German political philosopher, created a series of political works in which he explained the importance of defining ethical boundaries for soldiers in times of war. In 1863, President Lincoln commissioned Lieber to create a series of laws to reflect his ideas (“Francis Lieber,” 2013). Lieber went on to create what became known as Lieber’s code, which was “history’s first attempt to distill, formalize, and systematize various general concepts that international law, at the time, considered proper restraints for the combatants towards each other and towards civilians” (Forbes, 1985). But what effect did the code have on the Civil War and the preceding time period? Created at an important juncture in history, Lieber’s code not only had a profound effect on the views of controversies during the Civil War, but also influenced the way the world viewed the ethical obligations of military personnel during times of war.

In the late nineteenth century the glamourous diagnoses of “consumption” mutated into the dirty diagnoses of tuberculosis, a direct result of the discovery of the diseases viral nature. The newest popular diagnoses for the affluent became neurasthenia. Iconic American Neurologist George Miller Beard is remembered for having defined neurasthenia as a condition, and wrote extensively on the subject in his 1881 publication American Nervousness: Its Causes and Consequences, a Supplement to Nervous Exhaustion (Neurasthenia). Neurasthenia quickly became a new topic of conversation in American households, medical schools, and doctor’s offices. Neurasthenia was also referred to as "nervous exhaustion," and thought to be result of a depletion of nervous

One of Freud’s first cases was about Dora, and eighteen year old girl, who went to see Freud due to her father urging her to. However, the case of Anna O marked a turning point for Freud, and it even went on to influence psychology as a whole. Both Dora and Anna O. suffered from hysteria, a condition in which the patient shows physical symptoms without an apparent physical cause. For example, paralysis, loss of speech, and convulsions. Her doctor Josef Breuer went on in treating Anna by helping her recall forgotten memories of traumatic events. During discussions with her, it became apparent that she had developed a fear of drinking when a dog she hated drank from her glass. As soon as she had the chance to make these unconscious thoughts conscious her paralysis