Made in order to restrict patients movement, avoided self-harm.
Dr. Benjamin Rush is cited here to have invented the straitjacket and
the tranquilizer chair.
"Terror acts powerfully upon the body through the medium of the mind
and should be employed in the cure of madness. Fear accompanied with
pain and the sense of shame has sometimes cured the disease". That was
written almost two centuries ago in 1818 by Dr. Benjamin Rush, father
of American psychiatry, and the first president of the APA, whose face
still appears on the official seal of the American Psychiatric
Association. Dr. Rush advocated and practiced terror by designing and
using the straitjacket, the tranquilizer chair and "fear of death" on
numerous inmates in 19th century lunatic asylums.”
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/weitz2.htm
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