... of the new discoveries as to treat the mentally ill in the1950s, dangerous medicines and operations were used on people without much research. In the novel Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, when Holden Caulfield tells his story from inside the mental hospital, there is a good chance treatment he is receiving is affecting the way the theme and tone of his story turn out. In the 1950s, mental institutions around the ... Timeline). The number of mentally ill patients and the number of asylums are at its highest point in the 1950s, because of the lack of effective treatments to dismiss pat...

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