Review of Asylum

The idea of rehabilitating the mentally ill was not always embraced by medicine. Since the Middle Ages, when they appear the first asylums in Europe, the idea was to hide more than treating patients. In the Bethlem Royal Hospital, established in Britain in 1247, patients were imprisoned and chained in rooms. It was thought that many of them were possessed by the devil or had received divine punishment. And incredibly, the asylums followed this path until the mid-twentieth century. Bloodletting, lobotomies, shock therapy, are some of the therapies that became "infamous" because asylums.