Article ID: CBB520900198

The mentally ill and how they were perceived in young Israel (2021)

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The article constitutes a widely researched account of mental patients and their perceptions in the early history of Israel, especially its second decade. It focuses on a single generation, which experienced the traumas of war in Europe, followed by insecurity in Israel’s struggle for independence. The article claims that in the 1960s many suffered from depression, reflected in a record number of patients in mental hospitals and mentally sick people, mostly of European origin. This study describes Israeli society in the 1960s as disturbed, immersed in nightmarish dreams and close to madness; it also discusses the genetic and neurological vulnerabilities which induced the psychosis and the social response that converted it into a chronic illness.

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Authors & Contributors
Jones, Edgar
Artvinli, Fatih
Stambolis, Barbara
Guillemain, Hervé
Thabane, Motlatsi
Farquharson, Jennifer
Concepts
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatry
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Medicine and politics
Patients
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
21st century
18th century
Places
Turkey
France
Israel
Commonwealth countries
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lesotho
Institutions
Toronto Hospital for the Insane
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