1. Treatment of Mental Illness in the 1950
But shock therapy was usually repeated a few times a day for about a month. ... Because Holden tells his story from inside a mental hospital, there is a good chance treatment he is receives is a biomedical therapy, a lobotomy or electroshock. ... "The biomedical therapies are based upon the belief that mind and body are a unity: affect one and you will affect the other" (Myers 484). ... Caulfield's tone in the novel is caused by a biomedical therapy, making him have mordant and cynical views about just about everyone and everything he sees and encounters. ... Treatments such a lobotomi...
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