Strait jacket

For the use of the strait jacket within the framework of sexual plays, to see Strait jacket (BDSM)

A strait jacket is a Veste in very strong fabric intended to prevent a person from making use of her arms. Those passed in closed sleeves which are crossed at the front and attached in the back. A thin strap (not always present) immobilizes even more the arms by the front. Another thin strap with the crotch prevents the nightshirt from being simply slipped by the top.

More obsolete models do not have handles, the arms being directly under fabric. They are considered to be not very comfortable.

Psychiatry

The strait jacket was an instrument of application in the psychiatric Asile S, very much used before the invention of the Neuroleptiques. By extension, it was also used in the Prison S, even the political or prison camps Orphelinat S.

The strait jacket would have been invented in 1770 by a tapestry maker, Guilleret, at the hospital of Bicêtre. Today, the strait jacket generally was replaced by the use of the Neuroleptiques in the public hospitals so called chemical nightshirt . These means of application are not in themselves of the treatments of the disease but they can, when anything else is not possible, allow an access to the word and the dialog.

Popular culture

In the stories of fiction (as with the cinema), the use of strait jackets is often exaggerated: any marked person of madness often passed to the nightshirt, whereas this use is reserved to the most dangerous patients.
One employs sometimes the expression " nightshirt of force" as a Metaphor of something which restricts excessively.
Some turns of Prestidigitation consist in escaping from a strait jacket. It is the object of an annual contest.
Dero, singer of the group of German Tanzmetal Oomph wears a white strait jacket in its concerts.
the film The Jacket turns around a man enclosed in a strait jacket.

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