Lobotomy Therapy In WWII

During the 1940’s WWII was occurring not only did it affect people physically but also mentally. The people that were known to be mentally ill or handicapped were placed in places called asylums. People considered the mentally ill as useless people. The mentally ill were seen and treated differently, they were given harsh treatments, and were experimented on. In the 1940’s people with a mental illness were considered “valueless” or “stupid” to the public. The Aryan Genetic purity was a theory that was believed by the German Aryan race that people with a mental illness would be a biological danger for the Aryan race. The mentally ill were seen as people not worthy of living. In the start of WWII people with a mental illness were a target for murder to a program called “Euthanasia.” This program required that German doctors looked at the files

Insulin therapy was specially used for people with schizophrenia. Sometimes it would work to calm the patients or it would improve their health, but for some the treatment was no good because instead of improving the patients mental health it would make the patient more unstable. Lobotomy therapy was a therapy for different kinds of mental disorders this procedure would purposely damage the brain tissue in order to treat the mental illness a patient has. Electroshock therapy is a procedure done under anesthesia in which small electric currents that travel through the brain purposely causing a seizure. The purpose of this procedure to treat patients with major depression. These procedures continued on through the 1940-1950’s some of these treatments help some patients with severe mental illnesses. A lot of the techniques the doctors used became less popular to use for the patients and in the years to come there was a new method of treatment people with mental illnesses began to