Welcome to the PACTwise Help Site

Resources

Resources and links for a variety of educational pieces for ACT clinicians

Open Forum

Have your say in an open forum where ACT clinicians can post their thoughts

Feedback 

Send us your feedback, questions and concerns

Residents Page

Recommended readings and other stuff for psychiatric residents

PACTwise Users Manual

Here you'll find text files as well as video clips that can help with some of the most common tasks

The History Project

Compiled in downloadable PowerPoint format these are educational tools designed originally for psychiatric residents but available to anyone interested in looking at how we have come to where are are today.

Picture Gallery

Below are just a sampling of some of the topics covered in the History Project

A cage crib used in an asylum

ECT being given

Chemical structure for chlorpromazine

Drothea Dix 'Champion of the Mentally Ill'

An early ECT machine

Walter Freeman was a leading proponent for the use of lobotomy

Glucose being given to end an insulin coma session

The prefrontal lobotomy

Phillipe Pinel who 'unchained the insane'

Benjamin Rush's Tranquilizer Chair

The whirling chair, one of many "treatments" used for mental illness

Women in an asylum dayroom