Psychology and Psychiatry have had a pretty disturbing history when it comes to therapeutic treatments. You’ve probably heard about shock therapy or lobotomies, but you probably haven’t heard of rotation therapy. Calming or alarming? You be the judge of this treatment’s effects.

References

Dickson, S. (2018). Rotation therapy for maniacs, melancholics and idiots: theory, practice and perception in European medical and literary case histories. History of Psychiatry, 29(1), 22–37. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X17733176

Inglis-Arkell, E. (2013, July 15). The crazy psychiatric treatment developed by

Charles Darwin’s grandfather. Retrieved July 30, 2019, from https://io9.gizmodo.com/ the-crazy-psychiatric-treatment-developed-by-charles-da-714873905