Treatment of Mental Illness Through the Ages

The way in which people have viewed mental health problems has changed over time in accordance with both history and circumstances. Likewise, the treatment of mental illness has varied, according to the advances in medicine, psychology, and psychiatry of the time. Throughout, history, mental illnesses have been both classified and viewed in many different ways. In this article, we’ll talk about interventions such as lobotomies. Doctors believed they were useful for the treatment of conditions like OCD. On the other hand, we also mention techniques that completely lacked any kind of empirical validity. For example, the drowning of witches, as…