Electroshock Therapy
A type of therapy that delivers electric shocks directly to the brain, inducing seizures, intended to provide relief to mental disorders. This treatment can be given up to three times a week.
Hysteria Therapy
A type of therapy which involves a doctor using metal vibrators/their own appendages to calm hysterical, usually female, patients.
Lobotomy
The most used type of treatment. This is a surgery in which the brain’s frontal lobe nerves are severed by small tools, typically inserted through the eye sockets.
Hydrotherapy
A type of water therapy, where patients are wrapped in full body sheets, or sometimes blankets, and submerged in icy, or scalding, waters. This was believed to calm patients.
Insulin Coma Therapy
A type of treatment in which a doctor would repeatedly inject large doses of insulin to change insulin levels, which would often result in comas. (Typically, 1-2 hours, but can be much longer.)
Rotating Therapy
A type of treatment where patients would be tied to a chair, elevated, and spun up to 100 times. Vomiting or urination was induced and believed to purge the body.
Bloodletting
This treatment involves the use of leeches placed on the body, and allowing them to bite and drink “tainted” blood, believing them to be able to suck the illness out of a persons body.
Purging
This treatment involves various instruments that are used to induce vomiting, believing this a way to cleanse the body from any illness it carried.
Sensory Overload Therapy
A procedure in which patients are taken into a room, filled with different noises, varying levels of light, and other various stimuli. This is up to your doctors discretion.
Metrazol Therapy
A procedure in which specific medication is given to patients to induce seizures, much like electroshock therapy.
Trephination
This is a surgery in which the skull is drilled into, and a piece of bone was removed. Similar to lobotomies, but no brain is removed.
