I Wasn't Going To Post This

[brewer]

You know, the sad thing is that that asylum may very well still have been functioning, except for two things happening in the 1960s: 1) Mental hospitals got a bad rap due to public exposure of the abuses and the shitty attempts at treatment (most infamously lobotomies and ECT), 2) the rise of psychopharmacology led to massive deinstitutionalization.

We still use ECT, it's just not talked about that much and is with patient consent.

Edit: Oops, chimp beat me to it.