Mental illness in the 19th Century

I read "mental Illness in the 19th Century" which was about insanity. The people blamed mental illness on witchcraft and demonic possession, and the mentally ill were often imprisoned or remained untreated at home. Beginning in the late eighteenth century Moral Treatment had become the school of treatment in the United States. Moral Treatment hypothesized that insanity was caused by brain damage from outward influences on the soft and fragile brain. Many believed that alcoholism and masturbation, could lead to madness. By the 1880s greater oversight and medical standards for asylums were implemented, by using “rest cures” and treatment using static electricity.