UNM Connect; Interview with Eva Encinas-Sandoval and Shock Treatment in Mental Institutions

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.)

Distrust existed in the ways that psychiatry was used for society’s purposes rather than for helping treat people who had a mental illness. Shock treatment was used primarily as a treatment for agitated depression. It worked more quickly than medication. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” contributed to a national backlash in the 1960s against large state-run hospitals. Suddenly mental patients had more rights. Psychedelic drug distribution, which was initiated and run by the CIA, found its way out of hospitals and into the counterculture. For many, psychedelic drugs provided spiritual enlightenment, but for others, it unlocked a world of inner terror and bad trips. Lobotomies tended to quiet the worst cases in the backward asylum systems. There were over 5,000 lobotomies performed in 1949. Guest: Saul Zaentz (producer). Theis is raw footage for "UNM Connects." A Flamenco dancing degree offered at the University of New Mexico is a beneficial educational focus because it is much more than just an art form that involves dance or guitar, it also rekindles the social and cultural ties that New Mexico has to Spain. Guests: Eva Encinas Sandoval, Bridget Lujan.