Forced bath
A Zwangsbad is a forced bath in cold or hot water, about to somatotherapeutischen purposes in psychiatry , particularly in the early part of the 19th century.
When bathing in warm water, the patient's arms and legs are fixed in the tubs. A cloth is stretched over the tub or a wooden board with a hole in it to stick the head through. It is not only about therapy, but also torture, for example as a disciplinary punishment.
Emil Kraepelin recommended a water temperature of 35 ° C. Under Kraepelin, the sick continued to bathe at night, eventually even over a period of several months.
Bathing in cold water is called a "cold tub". With the “wet pack”, the patients are wrapped in nettle towels and poured with ice-cold water.
Forced baths in ice water are one of the torture methods used by the CIA for interrogation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ FAZ: Treating with torture methods. In: FAZ.net . August 8, 2013, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Monika Ankele: Everyday life and appropriation in psychiatric hospitals around 1900. Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78339-8 , p. 73 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ^ Matthias Benad: Bethel-Eckardtsheim. W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-170-19018-4 , p. 178 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ^ Secret services: Background: The cruelest interrogation methods of the CIA. In: Zeit Online. December 10, 2014, accessed July 6, 2017 .