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No Thank You.
What do spinning chairs, tranquilizing chairs, the Utica crib, bloodletting, blistering, purging, leeching, dental removal, and prefrontal lobotomy have in common?
What Is Pseudoscience?
What is pseudoscience? Some treatment claims may seem scientific but are false. These claims can trick people who aren’t experts, and sometimes even experts, into believing that they’re backed up by evidence. Unlike real sciences, these false claims usually don’t have methods to make sure that the evidence is fair and not biased. This means that people who make these claims often only look for evidence that supports what they already believe and ignore anything that doesn’t.
Many treatments that were previously considered effective for psychiatric disorders are now recognized as useless or harmful. The first sentence in this section contains several examples. As an example, this history of Utica Psychiatric Center is disconcerting but interesting. The center opened in 1843 and closed in 1977. The Utica crib was used at the facility until 1887. An important social reformer and writer – Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop – was subjected to confinement at the Utica facility for 26 months. She wrote about her experiences and her unlawful imprisonment there.
New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica
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