I’m not laughing now. This is so grim. My father told me his own father would cling to him and cry as he begged not to be given more electric shock therapy at his psychiatric hospital . It still makes me tear up.
Dr. Cotton , was not only a narcissist , he was cruel and had little awareness of the suffering of the patients under his control. Why , didn't anyone say anything to advocate for their families. Even the father who 's daughter he killed , said nothing. Thank you , Professor Yorston. For bringing awareness of the dark side of medicine.
@@professorgraemeyorstonnot only that but at the time you could force any practice on patients against their consent, some were dragged in kicking and screaming to be butchered because even with being drugged out of their minds or whatever they knew what was about to happen
Imagine taking out teeth and body organ removal for mood regulation. Some people, especially women, were sent to Lunatic Asylums for disagreeing with men, or for being elderly. How many people had Henry Cotton butchered and killed? Yes, he seems to have had narcissistic tendencies, never able to admit he was wrong. Even confronted with the truth of control vs surgery, showing the surgical group fared worse than the control group, he prevailed with his butchery. Authorities enabled him to continue mutilating the unfortunate patients. Thank you for featuring this period in the history of mental health, even though Dr. Cotton may give me bad dreams.
People didn't understand almost anything about psychiatric problems even when you had early alienists... people only really started to understand with Freud and Jung and thank God people are paying attention more to family contributing to mental problems and generational trauma
Great video! I'm a psych resident (junior doctor as you might say across the pond) in the US. I'm also fascinated by the history of psychiatry. Glad I found your channel!
Welcome aboard, the history of psychiatry for trainees has been rather neglected in recent years in the UK, get in touch through Linked In if you'd like to collaborate on any projects.
The deluded psychiatrist is an intentional thing. In 1990 my doctor let her gynecologist friend practice medicine on me. I had pain left low belly and was made to get a pelvic laparoscopy to look for endometriosis. I actually had diverticulosis and I still do. I’m currently struggling to extricate my entire life at 64 from the ravages of psychiatry
I’m so sorry this happened to you. Thank you for sharing your story and spreading awareness. Misguided medical advice and treatment is so dangerous. I’m glad you are still alive with us! ❤️
The egos of some surgeons know no bounds. Many surgical proceedures need to be tracked and, if inconclusive, double-blind studied for efficacy to include the patients results and opinions. Some surgeries have an 85% success rate, that is the surgeons report they open and close a patient with no complications 85% of the time, but the patient is no better. The surgery is still presented by surgeons to prospective patients as having an 85% success rate.
@@leob4403 "Sweden, known as a pioneer in LGBTQ rights, started restricting gender-affirming hormone therapy for minors - allowing it only in very rare cases - a year ago." Bro they don't even allow *hormones* for minors, what sources are you using???
I found your videos today. They are interesting you have a good approach. Golly gee though they have made me think and Lord I'm sure I'll not sleep soundly after binge watching so many. Thank you. You are a very interesting person
@professorgraemeyorston please don't worry ☺️I already have sleep issues so I can't blame you and your telling true history or stories and life at times is grim
The healthcare system is still barbaric, they just have found new methods of abuse. This butcher doctor was glorified in the medias at the time, and never got any bad press whatsoever, nothing much has changed really, it's just the form of quackery has shifted somewhat
Well that’s just mental… the irony! Removing teeth and organs to treat mental health is just crazy! Again the irony. Feel so sorry for his patients. Glad, this practice is no longer happening. I agree he was a narcissist!
Thank you for sharing. A very well researched and well put together TH-cam video. I would say the profession has hardly really moved on. TMS, DBS, ECT and even brain surgery still goes on. Someone wrote about having surgery in Dundee for mental disorder but this still goes on. This despite the scandal of professor eljamel who was struck off but used to carry these out. My own experience in forensics in training is people were heavily sedated and confined for years. I found adult wards similar but at least people stay a short time. A guilded cage is still a cage. Plenty of narcissistic personality within the profession but I hope you get some success with this. It's interesting the dark history is still entirely absent in the training. It should be taught to everyone!
Thank you, yes the profession has definitely moved on. I agree that trainees should know more about how psychiatry has developed over time. It was still officially in the MRCPsych syllabus when I trained but sadly it got squeezed and then dropped. How do we learn about ethical practice unless we know some of the dark things that have gone on before, in the name of progress!
Thank you, people tend to demonise hospitals because some of the bad things that happened, but there also a lot of good people who worked in them and did their best to help.
Dr. Cotton was just a frustrated dentist . As an aside there is an excellent Biopic of Kellogg with Anthony Hopkins playing the eponymous role titled The Road to Wellville . Recommended .
S.F Lamp dentist removed all my teeth as a kid. He said my mouth was to little so he pulled all of them in one day and my mother paid him to do it. The same day my father took me to work to help dig a ditch at the junk yard. To this day I hate all dentist.
Did he recognize what he was doing was painful and disabling his patients as well? I was interested that he actually pulled his own teeth so he would have experiences it himself. I guess it is easier to judge someone from the outside. Your comments help me to step into his shoes and others you have in your videos.@@professorgraemeyorston
If you ever have the time to watch a reality show called Vanderpump Rules (s1-3) I would love to see your thoughts on the cast (Jax and Stassi) I know its out of your realm of historical videos.. if you had a Patreon I would totally pay for it!
Great video and such a tremendous topic! I would like to contact you about some information on the subject of historical psychiatry but cannot find an email address to reach you to ask about more information. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Asylums actually have a positive purpose also with enough reform it would've been ok now people are on the street and thrown in prisons or masquerading as normal when they're not
I can see why you would say that after watching the video, and it's true that terrible things have been done by psychiatrists.... but we're not all bad!
I’m not laughing now. This is so grim. My father told me his own father would cling to him and cry as he begged not to be given more electric shock therapy at his psychiatric hospital . It still makes me tear up.
This is a grim story - sadly all too common.
Dr. Cotton , was not only a narcissist , he was cruel and had little awareness of the suffering of the patients under his control.
Why , didn't anyone say anything to advocate for their families.
Even the father who 's daughter he killed , said nothing.
Thank you , Professor Yorston. For bringing awareness of the dark side of medicine.
The medical establishment and medias want to bury these historical facts and have them be forgotten
Terrifying story. I can only imagine the fear of those poor people. Nobody made a complain about this sadistic doctor?
Plenty of people complained but they were ignored.
@@professorgraemeyorstonnot only that but at the time you could force any practice on patients against their consent, some were dragged in kicking and screaming to be butchered because even with being drugged out of their minds or whatever they knew what was about to happen
Retired family dr and CBT therapist. This video is really important.
Thank you - everyone working in the field of mental health should know about the abuses of power in the past.
I wonder what current cutting edge medical treatments will seem barbaric 100 years from now?
I suspect there will be a few of them!
Cancer treatments.
Imagine taking out teeth and body organ removal for mood regulation. Some people, especially women, were sent to Lunatic Asylums for disagreeing with men, or for being elderly. How many people had Henry Cotton butchered and killed? Yes, he seems to have had narcissistic tendencies, never able to admit he was wrong. Even confronted with the truth of control vs surgery, showing the surgical group fared worse than the control group, he prevailed with his butchery. Authorities enabled him to continue mutilating the unfortunate patients. Thank you for featuring this period in the history of mental health, even though Dr. Cotton may give me bad dreams.
Thank you. It is only by open about the past abuses of psychiatry that we can ensure such things don't happen again.
People didn't understand almost anything about psychiatric problems even when you had early alienists... people only really started to understand with Freud and Jung and thank God people are paying attention more to family contributing to mental problems and generational trauma
Thank you so much for making this, informative and fascinating at the same time. Good content!!!!
Thank you
Great video! I'm a psych resident (junior doctor as you might say across the pond) in the US. I'm also fascinated by the history of psychiatry. Glad I found your channel!
Welcome aboard, the history of psychiatry for trainees has been rather neglected in recent years in the UK, get in touch through Linked In if you'd like to collaborate on any projects.
Very interesting,never heard of those types of treatment for the mentally ill.
Thanks Lady Tron, you're not the only one, it's hard to understand why this story isn't better known, but at least a few do now!
The deluded psychiatrist is an intentional thing. In 1990 my doctor let her gynecologist friend practice medicine on me. I had pain left low belly and was made to get a pelvic laparoscopy to look for endometriosis. I actually had diverticulosis and I still do. I’m currently struggling to extricate my entire life at 64 from the ravages of psychiatry
I’m so sorry this happened to you. Thank you for sharing your story and spreading awareness. Misguided medical advice and treatment is so dangerous. I’m glad you are still alive with us! ❤️
The egos of some surgeons know no bounds. Many surgical proceedures need to be tracked and, if inconclusive, double-blind studied for efficacy to include the patients results and opinions. Some surgeries have an 85% success rate, that is the surgeons report they open and close a patient with no complications 85% of the time, but the patient is no better. The surgery is still presented by surgeons to prospective patients as having an 85% success rate.
Medical research methodology was very rudimentary in the early 20th century, it is far more sophisticated now.
@@professorgraemeyorstonright they are still doing gender reassignment on children and all sorts of very questionable drastic surgery practices
@@leob4403its illegal to do gender surgeries on children what are you babbling about
@@aaronthecatten not in Sweden where I live
@@leob4403 "Sweden, known as a pioneer in LGBTQ rights, started restricting gender-affirming hormone therapy for minors - allowing it only in very rare cases - a year ago." Bro they don't even allow *hormones* for minors, what sources are you using???
I love this channel keep the videos coming, so eloquently done and informative I watched them all already to my dismay😩
Thanks Mariesella, I'm doing them as fast as I can!🙂
I found your videos today. They are interesting you have a good approach.
Golly gee though they have made me think and Lord I'm sure I'll not sleep soundly after binge watching so many.
Thank you. You are a very interesting person
Thank you - I'm trying to think if there are any lighter ones....not many I'm afraid.
@professorgraemeyorston please don't worry ☺️I already have sleep issues so I can't blame you and your telling true history or stories and life at times is grim
Amazing to think this barbaric treatment was less than a hundred years ago.
Shocking but true!
The healthcare system is still barbaric, they just have found new methods of abuse. This butcher doctor was glorified in the medias at the time, and never got any bad press whatsoever, nothing much has changed really, it's just the form of quackery has shifted somewhat
Barbaric behaviour goes on today 2024. Not all is exposed but will be dealt with on the day of reckoning.
My eyes! I thought you said, "Bariatric!" 😂😂😂 I was going to contest. LoL
Well that’s just mental… the irony! Removing teeth and organs to treat mental health is just crazy! Again the irony. Feel so sorry for his patients. Glad, this practice is no longer happening. I agree he was a narcissist!
Abuses of power can occur in any setting, but are particularly dangerous somewhere where the complaints of those being abused will be ignored.
Thank you for sharing. A very well researched and well put together TH-cam video.
I would say the profession has hardly really moved on. TMS, DBS, ECT and even brain surgery still goes on. Someone wrote about having surgery in Dundee for mental disorder but this still goes on. This despite the scandal of professor eljamel who was struck off but used to carry these out.
My own experience in forensics in training is people were heavily sedated and confined for years. I found adult wards similar but at least people stay a short time. A guilded cage is still a cage.
Plenty of narcissistic personality within the profession but I hope you get some success with this. It's interesting the dark history is still entirely absent in the training. It should be taught to everyone!
Thank you, yes the profession has definitely moved on. I agree that trainees should know more about how psychiatry has developed over time. It was still officially in the MRCPsych syllabus when I trained but sadly it got squeezed and then dropped. How do we learn about ethical practice unless we know some of the dark things that have gone on before, in the name of progress!
@@professorgraemeyorstonthey are not interested in ethical practice there's your answer, profit and abuse of power comes before everything
I worked in this hospital 8 years ago. Its a different world in there.
I used to work in a mental hospital.back in the 70s.i worked in the kitchen thy had good food.
Thank you, people tend to demonise hospitals because some of the bad things that happened, but there also a lot of good people who worked in them and did their best to help.
Dr. Cotton was just a frustrated dentist . As an aside there is an excellent Biopic of Kellogg with Anthony Hopkins playing the eponymous role titled The Road to Wellville . Recommended .
Not funny to make jokes, many of these patients died and they were forced against their will
S.F Lamp dentist removed all my teeth as a kid. He said my mouth was to little so he pulled all of them in one day and my mother paid him to do it. The same day my father took me to work to help dig a ditch at the junk yard. To this day I hate all dentist.
Sadly, there are bad dentists and bad doctors, but there are also some good ones.
Without his credentials his behavior was borderline Jack The Ripper.
In some ways yes, but he actually believed he was helping people.
Did he recognize what he was doing was painful and disabling his patients as well? I was interested that he actually pulled his own teeth so he would have experiences it himself. I guess it is easier to judge someone from the outside. Your comments help me to step into his shoes and others you have in your videos.@@professorgraemeyorston
There was a reason this doctor was in an asylum..
...he was crazy..
Crazier than most of the patients!
Like shutter island the person that is supposed to be helping is the crazy one
Thanks, Professor. Your videos are so well done & enlightening. I love them.
Thanks PC, I'm glad you're enjoying them.
Why do SAGE and some politicians spring to mind?
The same cost cutting mentality that supported Cotton still goes on today.
Considering Trump, this program is very apt!
If you ever have the time to watch a reality show called Vanderpump Rules (s1-3) I would love to see your thoughts on the cast (Jax and Stassi) I know its out of your realm of historical videos.. if you had a Patreon I would totally pay for it!
Thanks Ashley, I haven't seen the show, but I'll try to catch a few episodes. Good idea about Patreon, I'll look into it.
It would be my pleasure to chip in, too, Professor Y.
This is very high quality content. Thank you
Glad you think so! Thank you.
Holy cow, what quackery!
It is hard to believe that someone would persist with something that killed off so many of his patients.
@@professorgraemeyorstonBrainwashing and indoctrination at its finest! It starts at a very early age in schools and continues throughout life
Interesting topic
45% DEATH RATE that PLACE is HAUNTED Trenton NJ
It is said to be haunted.
Yes, and those in charge of armies!
Thanks Michelle
Great video and such a tremendous topic! I would like to contact you about some information on the subject of historical psychiatry but cannot find an email address to reach you to ask about more information. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Bill, you can email me on prof.graemeyorston@gmail.com
Please analyze Hitler and explain why he was so FULL of hate and brutality. Thank you.
Hitler is such a huge topic - but he is on the to-do list.
Asylums actually have a positive purpose also with enough reform it would've been ok now people are on the street and thrown in prisons or masquerading as normal when they're not
They will be better after their fifth booster.
Or maybe the sixth...
He should have tried Bleach, or sunlight on the inside.
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You're gradually getting through the back catalogue!
Hey.!!
...there's a mouse on'yer collar..!
@8:19, sound familiar😂
I use to work at T.P.H.
Did people know about its famous medical director?
Psychiatry the most disgusting branch of medicine.
I can see why you would say that after watching the video, and it's true that terrible things have been done by psychiatrists.... but we're not all bad!
Yeah, laparotomy… worst pain in my life and that was with a constant morphine driver poo people
And hopefully not performed by a psychiatrist with minimal surgical experience.
Bless his BLACK little heart 😮
Very forgiving!
Reference to Castlevania?
Too many ads!!
Sorry, TH-cam puts those in!