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Some Aspects of the “Moral Treatment” of the Insane Up to 1854

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Alexander Walk
Alexander Walk*
Affiliation:
Cane Hill Hospital, Coulsdon, Surrey; Royal Medico-Psychological Association
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I should like to congratulate the Council of the Section on their decision to devote an evening to a historical subject. I cannot, I fear, congratulate them on their choice of a speaker, for I have done no more than scratch the surface of a very obvious period in the history of psychiatry. However, any sort of historical paper must be better than none, for as far as I have been able to ascertain no such paper has ever been read in this Section, with the exception of the Presidential Address delivered by the late Dr. Hubert Norman. Until a few months ago, exactly the same was true of the Section of the History of Medicine, but in recent months we have had two welcome and refreshing papers by Dr. Burns and Dr. Zelmanowits. We have had, too, the brilliant Maudsley Lectures by Prof. Lewis and Dr. Rees Thomas. Perhaps we may take it that these are signs of a renewed interest in the history of our specialty. I am sure that no branch of medicine needs it more.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 100 , Issue 421 , October 1954 , pp. 807 - 837
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1954 

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References

∗ This was the year in which a Committee of the House of Commons enquired into the state of the private madhouses.Google Scholar

∗ The word “fear” was omitted when this passage was quoted in The Retreat's Centenary publication Reform in the Treatment of the Insane, written in 1892 by D. Hack Tuke; in his “Chapters in the History of the Insane” the passage is correctly given, in French.Google Scholar

∗ This aspect of Pinel's methods has been discussed by Christine Buvat-Pochon in Les Traitements de Choc d'Autrefois en Psychiatrie. Thèse de Paris, 1939.Google Scholar

∗ Browne's matron at Montrose was appointed matron of Hanwell in 1843.Google Scholar

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