Who Needs Help?
Until the end of the nineteenth century, few people with emotional disorders went for help, i.e., professional treatment. They were taken, or more accurately dumped, someplace, that place usually being the insane asylum.

The Medicalization of Woe
Prior to Freud psychiatry only recognized what we now call the major psychoses. These patients were irrational and bizarre, different from the rest of us. Crazy, lunatic, insane, were words interchangeably used by layman and physician.

Consequences of the Medical Model
What had formerly been seen as unhappiness, or a crisis in confidence, or a moral failing was now defined as a clinical condition. Some might say: What's the difference? Only the name of the game has been changed. Nothing could be further from the truth.