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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Moral Treatment"”.
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Weston State Hospital
… both patients and employees, and the methods of treatment offered, from gentle "moral treatment" to hydrotherapy, electric shock, lobotomy, and psychotropic medications. The effects of deinstitutionalization are discussed, including the numbers of mentally ill now among the homeless or held in …
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Metaphysics of Mania: Edgar Allan Poe's and Herman Melville's Rebranding of Madness during the American Asylum Movement
… of bourgeois normativity and conservative moral standards, those categorized as mad in America during mid-1800s were institutionalized in reformed mental asylums, establishments which sought to homogenize human behavior through moral treatment. Both Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville drew …
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From Moral to Immoral Treatment: The Failure to Fund the Treatment of the Seriously Mentally Ill in Texas and the Nation, 1860 to 2018
This study presents a case study of the treatment of serious mental illness in one state, Texas, and its largest city and county, Houston, and Harris County. It also examines critical factors leading to the federal government's involvement in the treatment of severe mental illness from the 1960s …
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Historicizing performativity: Constructing identities in Victorian England
… The fourth chapter focuses on the demise of moral treatment (a form of therapy that sought to cure the mad by teaching them to behave sane), to examine sanity and shifting strategies for treating and explaining madness. My final chapter unsettles the stability of skin as a reliable …
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Physical Design Changes in the 19th Century English Asylums: A Study of Insane Asylums as Presented in ‘The Builder’ from 1843-1923
Under the umbrella of ‘Moral Treatment’ 19th century asylums were designed as a curative solution for lunatic patients. Many 19th century scholars considered architectural design elements as remedies for the lunatic population. Due to the presumed connection between architecture and patient cure, …
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"Unusual Demands of this Unusual Time": Logansport State Hospital and World War I
The Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane (also known as Longcliff Hospital or Logansport State Hospital) struggled with a number of challenges common to state institutions, including a lack of funding, staff shortages, and stretched capacity. These problems worsened during World War I and the …