Katie Charlwood
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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I'm just... I'm getting angry now, so let's not.
Effectively, the stereotype of the dangerous schizophrenic had yet to take centre stage and that would come later.
And it wasn't an accident.
See...
It's not that women were actually more likely to develop schizophrenia than men, because research suggests condition affects both sexes at a broadly similar rate, though symptoms and age can differ.
Rather, it reflects who psychiatrists noticed, who sought treatment, who had access to hospitals, and whose stories medical institutions chose to document.
Medicine, quite like photography, always depended on where the cameras pointed.
And for much of early 20th century, the camera was pointed firmly at white America.
I know, you're shocked.
Shocked!
State psychiatric hospitals in the first half of the 20th century were enormous places.
By the 40s and 50s, many housed thousands of patients, often in overcrowded conditions.
They served as treatment centres, but they also functioned as long-term custodial institutions.
Like, people didn't stay for weeks.
They often stayed for years.
And they suffered.
Because treatments, I'm going to say it, a bit barbaric, they ranged from
occupational therapy and psychotherapy to insulin coma therapy, electroconvulsive therapy and, of course, lobotomies.
Antipsychotic medication wouldn't become widely available until the mid-1950s.
Now, World War II had a big effect on this as well.
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