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Bezig met laden... In All Things: A Return to the Drooling Ward (2014)door Ed Davis
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" . . . powerful; beautifully written, well-observed and effective." --Kirkus Review In 1970, a seventeen-year-old trainee enters the psychiatric technician training program at Sonoma State Hospital. Having volunteered there as a high school student, he feels fairly well prepared and presumes that conditions like those in Jack London's 1914 short story about the place, "Told in the Drooling Ward" are a thing of the past. He soon discovers that what really happens behind the closed doors of the institution has not changed much since London's time, certainly not for the better. Taught the "necessary" skill of how to choke out a patient on his first day, and told with a shrug that sometimes when patients run away to the nearby hills, they're never found, the young trainee is thrust into a world of austere realities that most adults would balk at entering. Based on author Ed Davis's real-life experiences, In All Things is an honest reflection of a pivotal time in his life, as well as a compelling social commentary on how mental institutions were run in the 1970s. Told as a fictionalized, first-person narrative and expressed with stirring compassion, his story is an open door into a dark part of our history that will stay with you long after you read the last page. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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by Ed Davis
2014
Wedgewood Press
In the summer of 1970, Ed Davis applied to the Psych Tech Program at what was then called the Sonoma State Hospital after going on a field trip with a Biology teacher t the hospital. After several more visits, he made the decision to apply and was accepted. It was an eye opening experience difficult experience, and this story was hard to read at times.
At the time some of the things they did were viewed as normal and logical, but were anything but only make you question just what is normal.....and thankful there have been so many changes to the dignity as well as the health care these young boys were given.
Assigned to wards, these boys were considered "inmates" and were separated by disability, not ability. Many were given Thorazine and Dilantin daily, fed with nasal feeding tubes and were given a diet of "modified soft" foods. Prescribed stool softener daily, they were chronically ill and had bowel problems........No wonder, soft foods and stool softener......
To control the outbreak of sexual contact between "inmates" the males were subjected to a special "circumcision". If a women became pregnant, it was called an appendectomy. Some women had several.
And the one that bothered me the most.....the use of electroconvulsive therapy to control behavior. If this didn't help they were lobotomized and given larger doses of Thorazine.
I worked in Special Education for 13 years, and I have worked with students with many levels and types of disabilities, and thankfully with people who were professional and conscientious. Excellent teachers with knowledge and compassion, that helped to change not just how these innocent children are treated, but how society views them in general. I have never worked in a state run facility, and I am glad because there is no way in hell I could ever do some of the things I read in this book, and have seen for myself.
Special Education and inclusion has come a long way, books like this remind us why its necessary.
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