Putting the Rest Cure to Rest

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Social Issues

 

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Michiko M

 

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July 29, 2014

 

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More controversial, but curiously overlooked is the topic of the ‘rest cure’ and whether Gilman’s associations are fact or fiction. Evidence supports Charlotte Gilman may have misrepresented the Weir Mitchell Rest Cure, and pokes more holes in The Yellow Wallpaper.” (Blackie 57). The story’s female character is suffering from “temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical(1) tendency,” (Gilman 161) and prescribed a rest cure...
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The treatment enforced absolute bed rest, forbade physical, mental or social activities and required total isolation from family and friends. Eventually the lack of stimulation and complete solitude only added to the desolation, and pushed her to the brink of insanity. The Yellow Wallpaper was based on Gilman’s personal experience with postpartum depression and treatment received by Dr...
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