General Index

- Mind Medicine

- Rituals

Bibliography

Notes

Whipping

Uses:

 For mental disorders that cause suffers to behave unruly and disruptive.

Method:

 

Stand back with whip in hand and strike patient. Repeat until desired result is achieved.

According to popular beliefs, this method is especially effective at calming noisy female lunatics (38).

This method is endorsed by William Shakespeare, who wrote in Act iii, scene 2 of As You Like It, that madmen deserve "a dark house and a whip" (39).

 
Side Effects:
 Death, broken bones and retaliation can occur. Loss of blood may also occur, but is encouraged as a means of removing offending humours.