Oh, good luck with the project!
I was a psych major before I dropped out of college many years ago.

I wanted to be a researcher as opposed to clinical. I love doing research. Anyway, I once did a 10 page paper on how mental illness has been viewed historically and how treatment methods changed over time. There was a lost of scary treatments in the past, and treatment is the wrong words, really. More like horrible torture!
But the reason I got into psychology to begin with was because I felt something was wrong but no one would help me.