Objekt 1163
Deep sleep therapy
Description
Somatic therapies emerged in the 1920s. These were designed to affect the psyche via the body. The first of these was the deep sleep therapy. The aim of the therapy was to achieve periods of sleep lasting up to two weeks. This was intended to make patients calmer and more amenable to therapy. The sleep therapy required an enormous amount of nursing care. And it was very risky: circulatory collapse and pneumonia – often fatal – were not uncommon. Sleep therapies were carried out at Friedmatt until 1952, but declined with the advent of shock treatments in the 1930s.
Object description
Sleeping pill Somnifen
Inv. 2018.469.
Powder dispenser
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Enema syringe
Inv. 2018.506.