Sane Asylums: The Success of Homeopathy before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind by Jerry

Description: Sane Asylums by Jerry M. Kantor, Eric Leskowitz Jerry M. Kantor examines the success of homeopathic psychiatric asylums in America from the post-Civil War era until 1920. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description • Examines the success of homeopathic psychiatric asylums in the United States from the 1870s until 1920 • Focuses on New Yorks Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital for the Insane, which had a treatment regime with thousands of successful outcomes • Details a homeopathic blueprint for treating mental disorders based on Talcotts methods, including nutrition and side-effect-free homeopathic prescriptions In the late 1800s and early 1900s, homeopathy was popular across all classes of society. In the United States, there were more than 100 homeopathic hospitals, more than 1,000 homeopathic pharmacies, and 22 homeopathic medical schools. In particular, homeopathic psychiatry flourished from the 1870s to the 1930s, with thousands of documented successful outcomes in treating mental illness. Revealing the astonishing but suppressed history of homeopathic psychiatry, Jerry M. Kantor examines the success of homeopathic psychiatric asylums in America from the post–Civil War era until 1920, including how the madness of Mary Todd Lincoln was effectively treated with homeopathy at a "sane" asylum in Illinois. He focuses in particular on New Yorks Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital, where superintendent Selden Talcott oversaw a compassionate and holistic treatment regime that married Thomas Kirkbrides moral treatment principles to homeopathy. Kantor reveals how homeopathy was pushed aside by pharmaceuticals, which often caused more harm than good, as well as how the current critical attitude toward homeopathy has distorted the historical record. Offering a vision of mental health care for the future predicated on a model that flourished for half a century, Kantor shows how we can improve the care and treatment of the mentally ill and stop the exponential growth of terminal mental disorder diagnoses that are rampant today. Author Biography Jerry M. Kantor, L.Ac., CCH, MMHS, is a faculty member of the Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine and owner of Vital Force Health Care LLC, a Boston-area homeopathy and acupuncture practice. The first acupuncturist to receive an academic appointment at Harvard Medical Schools Department of Anaesthesiology, Kantor is the author of Interpreting Chronic Illness, The Toxic Relationship Cure, and Autism Reversal Toolbox. He lives in Dedham, Massachusetts. Table of Contents Foreword by Eric Leskowitz, M.D. PrefaceINTRODUCTION The Dead Sea Scrolls of Homeopathy and Psychiatry 1 Who Are the Mad and Where Shall They Dwell? 2 The Dawn of Enlightened Mental Health Care3 Homeopathy to the Fore4 The Madness of Mary Todd Lincoln 5 Enter Selden Haines Talcott 6 Middletown State Homeopathic Hospitals Utopian Agenda 7 Walking the Talk8 Play Ball! The Innovation of Baseball Therapy 9 Genius Physician and Nurse-Educator Clara Barrus10 Disciples and Satellites of the Mother Church 11 Concessions to the Spirit of the Times 12 Investing in Sanity Appendices 1 Compendium of Madness Perspectives 2 Exemplifying Nanomedicine: The Research of Dr. Iris Bell 3 Samuel Hahnemanns Mental Health Aphorisms 4 Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital Treatments and Case Studies 5 The 1916 General Summary of Homeopathic Hospitals and Sanatoriums Resources Notes Bibliography IndexAbout the Author Review "Sane Asylums is a brilliant stroll through medical history, showing that homeopathic physicians were more than a hundred years ahead of their time. The homeopathic mental health institutions were truly sane asylums; that is, they integrated homeopathic treatment with nutritional therapy, physical exercise, play therapy, and respectful and caring personalized treatment. In terms of mental health care, we can now say that there really were the good old days in this medical specialty." * Dana Ullman, MPH, CCH, author of The Homeopathic Revolution *"Mental health professionals and patients alike can take heart from this thoroughly documented description of natural cures for mental illness at the turn of the last century. The actual cures came from the timeless science of homeopathy, whose safe and effective medicines remain in use today. In fact, we can still implement the same protocols that Jerry Kantor describes in Sane Asylums, complete with specific medicines for common diagnoses. Both scholarly and entertaining, Sane Asylums provides solid support for a more sane approach to mental illness today." * Burke Lennihan, RN, CCH, classical homeopath and author of Your Natural Medicine Cabinet *"In Sane Asylums, Jerry Kantor digs into the past to reveal a surprising history, one that challenges current societal beliefs. The most joyful chapter in this book tells of baseball therapy practiced at Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital for the Insane, with the Asylums, as the hospitals team was known, posting a surprisingly good record in competition with other local New York baseball teams. You read this and cant help but ask yourself, what does this reveal about our mental health care today?" * Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America *"Jerry Kantors book is an amazing historical document that also provides insight into what can be done to improve the lives of those struggling with mental illness today. Homeopathy can work miracles. It is imperative that more people realize this at a time when modern medicine is increasingly harming rather than helping us." * Amy L. Lansky, Ph.D., author of Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy *"Sane Asylums gives us an illuminating look into a time when visionary doctors treated mental illness with care, compassion, and gentle, effective homeopathic remedies. It is an important historical addition that will enlighten therapists as well as anyone interested in improving the treatment of those with severe mental illness. One can only hope that this history becomes better known so that all effective treatments, such as homeopathy, will flourish." * Jane Tara Cicchetti, CCH, author of Dreams, Symbols, and Homeopathy *"Sane Asylums is a book that makes you want to travel back in time and go to 1875--1925 when mental asylums in the United States offered humane living conditions, compassionate care, sports therapy, and homeopathic remedies to thousands of people with mental illness and obtained successful cures. Sane Asylums shows what was possible back then and what can be achieved today if the homeopathic approach to mental illness is made available again and we, as a society, learn to invest in sanity." * Vatsala Sperling, Ph.D., P.D.Hom, CCH, R.S.Hom, classical homeopath and author of The Ayurvedic Rese *"Highly recommended. Sane Asylums is an engaging, well-researched, and very much needed historical perspective on the role of homeopathy in the evolution of medicine in the United States. Rather than the scrubbed historical version we are accustomed to finding in our history books, Sane Asylums sheds new light on homeopathys relevance for mental health care, medicine, nursing, and politics today. Well worth the read!" * Ann McKay, RN-BC, CCH, HWNC-BC, homeopath *"In an insane world, what better than to challenge our collective cognitive dissonance around psychiatry? Homeopathy is biological intelligence and inheritance. Seems we knew this once upon a time. Mad props to Jerry Kantor for uncovering beautiful, forgotten, misunderstood, and disavowed parts of our medical history." * Louise Kuo, health freedom activist and author of Vaccine Epidemic *"Do you like history, homeopathic history? Well then, youre sure to appreciate Jerry Kantors inspiring scholarship in this psychological thriller. And whats most unsettling is that its all true!" * Jay Yasgur, author of Yasgurs Homeopathic Dictionary and Holistic Health Reference *"I love this book! Sane Asylums will be a great addition to the history of homeopathy literature and likely enjoy popularity in the mental health community. The chapter about Mary Todd Lincoln was fascinating. Learning of Selden Haines Talcotts career and approach to the psychiatric patient personalized homeopathic history for me. The chapter on the development of the Middletown State Hospital was enlightening and the baseball chapter was surprising and just plain fun." * Mark Brody, M.D., psychiatry doctor * Review Quote " Sane Asylums is a brilliant stroll through medical history, showing that homeopathic physicians were more than a hundred years ahead of their time. The homeopathic mental health institutions were truly sane asylums; that is, they integrated homeopathic treatment with nutritional therapy, physical exercise, play therapy, and respectful and caring personalized treatment. In terms of mental health care, we can now say that there really were the good old days in this medical specialty." Excerpt from Book From "Introduction: The Dead Sea Scrolls of Homeopathy and Psychiatry" Has psychiatry gone astray? It appears so, with corporate greed as the primary cause. Despite what some consider state-of-the art psychiatric treatment, rather than declining, the number of identified disabled mentally ill has tripled in this country in the last twenty years. Ever more patients with intractable and increasingly dire diagnoses requiring medication continue to appear. In turn, the need to counter the side effects of these same medications has escalated. As Robert Whitaker shows in Anatomy of an Epidemic , simply not using psychiatric medication enables the poorest and least developed countries in the world to consistently outperform the United States across all measures with regard to short- and long-term schizophrenia outcomes. Need one doubt that a craving for market expansion propels the skyrocketing census of depressed and bipolar individuals? Or that this is the reason why healthy youngsters are suddenly earmarked for psychopharmacologys tender mercies? Psychiatry need not have gone down this road. In fact, for a quarter of a century throughout much of the United States, alternate and well-traveled routes for humane and effective psychiatric care existed. Whether mentally or physically ill, people flocked to homeopaths because these physicians listened to, rather than condescended to their patients. Whereas conventional physicians of that era prescribed on the basis of often dubious biological suppositions directing them to ply a patient with toxic mercury or bleed them repeatedly, their homeopathic counterparts prescribed gentle medicines attuned to the stresses and influences responsible for their patients symptoms. Which doctor would you have chosen? Are the utopian homeopathic asylums of the turn of the nineteenth century a myth? One might think so based on a dearth of their mention in contemporary historical medical literature. Readers of influential texts such as Madness: An American History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment will puzzle over why author Mary de Youngs chapter on asylums declines to mention homeopathys numerous mental hospitals. The omission fosters a preferred reality in which the hospitals never existed. In fact, many American hospitals and medical schools had homeopathic founders and boasted countless homeopathically directed activities, mention of which has been scrubbed from most history. I consider the information Sane Asylums presents to be a corollary to the Dead Sea Scrolls, which illuminated a wide spectrum of ancient beliefs and practices; this information, however, is only a few centuries old, as opposed to two thousand years. It was not smuggled from the caves of Qumran but secreted in wilted letters and journals; the minutes of physician organizations; bygone texts; rare offerings of publishers Forgotten Books, Kissinger Publishing L.L.C., and the Wentworth Press; and the University of Michigan Librarys digitalization of dusty archives. Still, the material will enlighten. Medical historians accustomed to hailing French physician Philippe Pinel as the first doctor to replace brutal care of the mentally ill with psychologically oriented humanitarian (or what Pinel called "moral") care will have to reconsider. What I am terming the "Dead Sea Scrolls of homeopathy" reveal these contemporaries must share credit. Pinel made human changes in treatment, but it was Samuel Hahnemann who pioneered homeopathic remediation in an asylum in Georgenthal, Germany in 1792. Online searchers, unaware that shills for the pharmacology industry have commandeered the Wikipedia homeopathy page, take the websites disparaging account as gospel truth.1 Shown otherwise they will scratch their heads. So too might visitors to the website of the American Medical Association (AMA), where an exalted account of the organizations origins is given the lie by economist Dale Steinreichs sordid revelation: "AMAs initial drive to increase physician incomes was motivated by increasing competition from homeopaths. . . . In the year before AMAs founding, the New York Journal of Medicine stated that competition with homeopathy caused a large pecuniary loss to allopaths."2 And in 1872, one allopath embroiled in the controversy at the University of Michigan, where a professorship in homeopathy had been established since 1855, argued that the university was "throwing discouragements in the path of the graduates in scientific medicine and rendering the struggle for existence more arduous and unremunerative."3 FURTHER REVELATIONS Homeopathys popularity in the nineteenth- and early twentieth century is evident from its celebrated advocates, including luminaries William James, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathanial Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Daniel Webster, William Seward, Horace Greeley, Louisa May Alcott, and journalist William Cullen Bryant (who served for a time as president of the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York).4 There have been more than one hundred homeopathic hospitals and twenty-two homeopathic medical schools in the United States. These included forerunners of Drexel University College of Medicine (representing the legacies of two historic medical schools, Hahnemann Medical College and the Womens Medical College of Pennsylvania), Boston University, Stanford University, New York Medical College, University of Michigan, and more than a thousand homeopathic pharmacies. HOMEOPATHY AMID PANDEMICS Amid todays Covid 19 pandemic, historian Julian Winstons disclosures concerning homeopathys effectiveness during other major epidemics are relevant. From his introduction to "Influenza-1918: Homeopathy to the Rescue" article published in 1998: It was called "the Great White Plague." It is hard to imagine the devastation caused by the flu epidemic of 1918-19. People who lived through it reported that someone who was up and well in the morning could be dead by evening. Winston goes on to quote the following testimonials compiled by Dean W. A. Pearson of Philadelphia and included in a 1920 article by W. A. Dewey, M.D. entitled "Homeopathy in Influenza--A Chorus of Fifty in Harmony," which appeared in the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy . Pearson recorded 26,795 cases of influenza treated by homeopathic physicians with a mortality of 1.05 percent, while the average mainstream medicine mortality was 30 percent. In the transport service I had 81 cases on the way over. All recovered and were landed. Every man received homeopathic treatment. One [non-homeopathic] ship lost 31 on the way. --H. A. Roberts, M.D., Derby, Connecticut In a plant of 8,0 workers we had only one death. The patients were not drugged to death. Gelsemium was practically the only remedy used. We used no aspirin and no vaccines. --Frank Wieland, M.D., Chicago I did not lose a single case of influenza; my death rate in the pneumonias was 2.1%. The salicylates, including aspirin and quinine, were almost the sole standbys of the old school and it was a common thing to hear them speaking of losing 60% of their pneumonias. --Dudley A. Williams, M.D., Providence, Rhode Island Fifteen hundred cases were reported at the Homeopathic Medical Society of the District of Columbia with but fifteen deaths. Recoveries in the National Homeopathic Hospital were 1%. --E. F. Sappington, M.D., Philadelphia I have treated 1,0 cases of influenza. I have the records to show my work. I have no losses. Please give all credit to homeopathy! --T. A. McCann, M.D., Dayton, Ohio One physician in a Pittsburgh hospital asked a nurse if she knew anything better than what he was doing, because he was losing many cases. "Yes, Doctor, stop aspirin and go down to a homeopathic pharmacy, and get homeopathic remedies." The doctor replied: "But that is homeopathy." "I know it, but the homeopathic doctors for whom I have nursed have not lost a single case." --W. F. Edmundson, M.D., Pittsburgh Three hundred and fifty cases and lost one, a neglected pneumonia that came to me after she had taken one hundred grains of aspirin in twenty-four hours. --Cora Smith King, M.D., Washington, D.C. I had a package handed to me containing 1,0 aspirin tablets, which was 994 too many. I think I gave about a half dozen. I almost invariably gave Gelsemium and Bryonia. I hardly ever lost a case if I got there first, unless the patient had been sent to a drug store and bought aspirin, in which event I was likely to have a case of pneumonia on my hands. --J. P. Huff, M.D., Olive Branch, Kentucky In reading the accounts of the epidemic it seems that most of the deaths were caused by a virulent pneumonia that was especially devastating to those who depressed their systems with analgesics, the most common being aspirin.5 THE MOTHER CHURCH: MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK, HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL After opening its doors in 1874, New Yorks Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital flourished for twenty-five years. Its third superintendent, Selden Talcott, planned and oversaw a treatment regime marrying Quaker physician Thomas Kirkbrides moral treatment principles of compassion and respect to scientific medicine. Talcotts methods inspired ardent disciples and similarly enlightened asylums across the country. The many failings of contemporary psychiatry and the omission of homeopathys successes from historical accounts entreat reconsideration--if not celebration--of Talcotts work and legacy. Psychiatry since 1875 has regressed. Its feckless lack of concern for the addicti Details ISBN1644114089 Author Eric Leskowitz Short Title Sane Asylums Pages 288 Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1644114089 ISBN-13 9781644114087 Format Paperback Illustrations 25 b&w illustrations Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and Company Place of Publication Rochester Country of Publication United States Imprint Healing Arts Press NZ Release Date 2022-09-29 UK Release Date 2022-09-29 Subtitle The Success of Homeopathy before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind DEWEY 362.21 Audience General AU Release Date 2022-12-13 Publication Date 2022-09-29 US Release Date 2022-09-29 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:138171354;

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