| PHOTOS BY GARY MILLER |
 Then, shock therapy and managing aggressive or deviant behavior through medication moved into prominence. This stroll down memory lane concerning the treatment of the mentally ill highlights the waxing and waning of fear, prejudice, judgment, blaming sexuality, and various physical treatments for people with mental illness. How society views mental illness greatly impacts how people are treated and even what is defined as a mental illness. What constitutes mental illness has changed dramatically just in the 20th century. Nowhere is this evolution more clear than in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (known as the DSM), the book published by the American Psychiatric Association which contains diagnostic criteria for all mental illnesses. The DSM has undergone five major revisions since its first publication in 1952 and another revision, DSM-V is due out in the next five years. In the early versions of the DSM, published in the 1950s and 1960s, therapists made diagnoses based on inferences about the causes of abnormal behavior. |
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