1600’s & 1700’s

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  • 1600’s People with mental health challenges were chained to walls. “Lunatics” were treated like sideshow attractions, and many people were persecuted in the Salem witch trials for experiencing different realities.
  • 1700’s Superstitious explanations gave way to the medical model explanation. Facilities first started opening that didn’t require chains and shackles. The first psychiatric hospital opened.