Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-q99xh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T10:43:11.907Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The changing profile of a nineteenth-century asylum: the York Retreat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Anne Digby
Anne Digby*
Affiliation:
From the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, University of York
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr Anne Digby, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, University of York, Heslington, York Y01 5DD.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Synopsis

This paper focuses on the later history of the York Retreat after the initial period for which it is best known. It discusses the marked changes which occurred in the social composition of its patients and the way in which these changes modified the asylum's management and therapy. It argues that the conventional image of the Retreat, based as it is on the institution's earliest years, needs considerable revision.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , November 1984 , pp. 739 - 748
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Baker, R. (1892). Our Hospitals for the Insane: Their Position and Influence. York.Google Scholar
Bucknill, J. C. & Tuke, D. H. (1858). A Manual of Psychological Medicine. John Churchill: London.Google Scholar
Charlesworth, E. P. (1828). Remarks on the Treatment of the Insane. C. and J. Rivington: London.Google Scholar
Conolly, J. (1856). Treatment of the Insane without Mechanical Restraint. Smith, Elder & Co.: London.Google Scholar
Digby, A. (1985). Madness, Morality and Medicine. A Study of the York Retreat, 1796–1914. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge (in the press).Google Scholar
Doerner, K. (1981). Madmen and the Bourgeoisie. A Social History of Insanity and Psychiatry. Basil Blackwell: Oxford.Google Scholar
Donnelly, M. (1983). Managing the Mind. A Study of Medical Psychology in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. Tavistock: London.Google Scholar
Finnane, M. (1981). Insanity and the Insane in Post-Famine Ireland. Croom Helm: London.Google Scholar
Foucault, M. (1971). Madness and Civilization. A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Tavistock: London.Google Scholar
Jones, K. (1955). Lunacy, Law and Conscience, 1744–1845. Routledge and Kegan Paul: London.Google Scholar
Hervey, N. (1980). Bowhill House. St Thomas's Hospital for Lunatics Asylum for the Four Western Counties, 1801–1869. University of Exeter: Exeter.Google Scholar
Hill, R. G. (1857). The Non-Restraint System. London.Google Scholar
Isichei, E. (1970). Victorian Quakers. Oxford University Press: Oxford.Google Scholar
Kitching, J. (1857). The Principles of Moral Insanity. York.Google Scholar
Mellett, D. J. (1982). The Prerogative of Asylumdom. Social, Cultural, and Administrative Aspects of Institutional Treatment of the Insane in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Garland Publishing: New York.Google Scholar
Parry-Jones, W. L. (1972). The Trade in Lunacy. A Study of Private Madhouses in England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Routledge and Kegan Paul: London.Google Scholar
Ray, L. J. (1981). Models of madness in Victorian asylum practice. European Journal of Sociology 22, 229–264.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rowntree, J. S. (1859). Quakerism, Past and Present: Being an Inquiry into the Causes of its Decline in Great Britain and Ireland. Smith, Elder and Co.: London.Google Scholar
Scull, A. T. (1979). Museums of Madness. The Social Organization of Insanity in Nineteenth Century England. Allen Lane: London.Google Scholar
Showalter, E. (1980). Victorian women and insanity. Victorian Studies 23. Reprinted in Scull, A. (ed.) (1981). Madhouses, Mad-doctors and Madmen. Athlone Press: London.Google Scholar
Skultans, V. (1979). English Madness. Ideas on Insanity, 1580–1890. Routledge and Kegan Paul: London.Google Scholar
Thurnam, J. (1845). Observations and Essays on the Statistics of Insanity. London.Google Scholar
Tuke, D. H. (1854). Prize Essay on the Management of the Insane. London.Google Scholar
Tuke, S. (1964). Description of the Retreat (2nd edn). Dawson: London. (This reprinted part of De la Rive's account of the Retreat that had appeared in 1798 in Bibliothèque Britannique: Lettre adressée aux Rédacteurs de la Bibliothèque Britannique sur un nouvel établissement pour la guérison des aliénés.)Google Scholar