Category:Mental Illness Research Facility

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Mental illness research facilities, more commonly known as asylums, madhouses, or sanitariums, are places where madness is be studied by alienists and treatments for its cure are devised and tested. But they are also effectively prisons where the mad are locked up to prevent them from harming themselves and others.

The various asylums of the Land of Mists pursue many different methodologies. These may be grouped roughly into the following categories:

Analytical--Pioneered by the Mousel Family, this is a talking/interviewing method that focuses on empowering the conscious mind.

Oneirological--Pioneered by Dr. Gregorian Illhousen, this branch claims the secret to unraveling the psyche is within the subconscious, accessed via hypnosis and dreams.

Palliative--Rather than push for a cure, simple institutionalization. Includes rest, removal from stimuli, and medication. Often a euphemism for neglect, but many asylums can do little more than this.

Conditional--Founded in antiquity, championed by Dr. Harrod Tasker, this methodology views madness is mostly moral laxity; the cure is rigorous discipline and aversive stimuli to manage unwanted behavior.

Surgical--Claims malformation of the brain leads to psychological problems, which must be physically corrected. Includes trepanning, transorbital lobotomy and full lobotomy.

Most alienists use a combination of these methods--in particular, analytical interviewing with hypnosis--depending upon preferences.

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