Insane people instead of being tortured and executed , were being placed in asylums . Benjamin Rush wrote the first American Textbook of Psychiatry and suggested more compassionate treatment for those suffering from mental illnesses . Psychology slowly began to be established as a separate branch of medicine . However , in the later part of the 19th century unhealthy practices against the mentally ill continued (such as removal of the ovaries in mentally ill women , blood-letting and rotating ) in an effort to calm them...











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