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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"asylums"”.
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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
… 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, many …
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Historical and Self-Imposed Asylums in Samuel Beckett’s <em>Murphy, Malone Dies</em>, and “First Love”
… and implications of historical and self-imposed asylums in several of Samuel Beckett's works, most notably Murphy, Malone Dies, and "First Love." The first half of this study compares several historical Irish and British asylums to Beckett's frictional institutions in order to illuminate the …
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The Perception and Treatment of Insanity in Southern Appalachia
… eventually led to lavishly-constructed insane asylums supported by taxpayers. Simultaneously, the hope of a cure and a changing attitude toward insanity helped destigmatize mental illness and made institutionalization of the insane more acceptable. This regional study investigates insane …
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Child welfare reformers, academic psychologists, and the dependent child in Progressive Era America
… both the majority position opposing congregate asylums and the minority position supporting congregate asylums in the context of a society that was becoming more focused on individual needs and differences. Chapter Three is about the impetus to move dependent children out of congregate orphan …
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The development of the Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum and Mental Hospital
… a mental illness including legislation to set up asylums at a cost to public funds. There was initial optimism that, provided a patient was admitted early enough, there was a good chance of recovery but in practice the numbers admitted to public and private institutions overwhelmed limited …
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Suicide, lunacy and the asylum in nineteenth-century England
… admissions to nineteenth-century public lunatic asylums. They formed a distinct patient category that required treatment and management strategies that were capable of frustrating their suicidal propensity and alleviating their mental affliction. Yet despite being relatively large in number, the …
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Beyond the asylum: Colonial psychiatry in French Indochina, 1880-1940
… I trace the movements of patients in and out of asylums and between prisons, poor houses, youth reformatories, hospitals and family homes. Together, these individual patient itineraries challenge our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting where patients rarely left, run by experts who …
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Mental Recovery, After-Care and Psychotherapy in Britain's Non-institutional Mental Health Charities, 1879-1939
… health in patients released recovered from asylums. The MACA’s history provides the backbone of this thesis, which shows how the subsequent charities (Central Association for Mental Welfare, National Council for Mental Hygiene, Child Guidance Council) grew around this Association. …
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Colonialism and the production of psychiatric knowledge in the Cape, 1891-1920
… appointment of the colony's first Inspector of Asylums. It was a time during which legal reform and social and economic change brought about significant shifts in management of the Cape insane population. The dissertation describes conditions of increasingly strict segregation of patients …
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Let Him Be an Honor to the Country: Veteran Violence and Public Opinion after the Civil War
… outbursts forced veterans into soldiers' homes, asylums, and prisons, but these unfit facilities were last resorts for men with no place in society and no options. For many veterans, readjustment would prove a struggle more complicated and disheartening than the war itself.</p>
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Metaphysics of Mania: Edgar Allan Poe's and Herman Melville's Rebranding of Madness during the American Asylum Movement
… were institutionalized in reformed mental asylums, establishments which sought to homogenize human behavior through moral treatment. Both Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville drew upon the cultural construction of mental abnormality during their time and formulated mad characters that worked …
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Looking through the Cracked Looking Glass: Masculinity, Gaelic Sports and Revolutionary Thought in Ireland, 1884-1920
… specific institutions such as prisons and insane asylums to view the relationship of power that existed between ‘inmate’ and ‘guard.’ Notable Irish figures and organizations that will be examined through this lens are the Gaelic Athletic Association, Patrick Pearse, St. Enda’s school, and Michael …
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"""When in doubt, deport!"": U.S. deportation and the local policing of global migration during the 1920s"
… but in the streets, prisons, hospitals, asylums, and media discourse. As immigration officials and local authorities sought to enforce abstract policies, they ran up against the reality of migrants as embodied individuals and communities, whose national and racial identities, sexuality, …
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Institutional reform in mental healthcare in Ireland: the establishment of the Ardee Mental Hospital, 1933, in its historical context.
… of an extensive network of district lunatic asylums in two phases: pre-Famine and post-Famine. The last major construction occurred in Portrane, County Dublin at the end of the nineteenth century. The Ardee Mental Hospital, County Louth, opened in November 1933. It was the only mental health …
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Out of Sight: Exploring Desire, Visuality and the Obscene through Photographic Practice
… and social spaces (hospitals, schools, asylums and prisons); spaces that condition how we look and determine what can be seen through relations of power (Rajchman, 1988). I claim that photographic representation constitutes a site for the suspension of the revelation of what is …
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“Of unsound mind”: a history of three Eastern Cape mental institutions, 1875-1910
… Although geographically dispersed the asylums were intimately connected to each other, forming one integrated system to treat and manage the mentally ill. This thesis critically examines the changing patterns of care in these Eastern Cape institutions, during an important period of …
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Laurentian University habitat for holistic healing and wellness: growing spaces for fostering a culture of ritualistic self-care
… shift by providing spaces which, contrary to asylums or psychiatric offi ces, empower those struggling with their mental wellbeing.3 Employing an approach called the ‘measure-free recipe’ methodology, this thesis proposal endeavors to curate texture, path, context and light; tactfully manage …
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Cleanliness and Godliness: A sociological study of the Good Shepherd Convent refuges for the social reformation and Christian conversion of prostitutes and convicted women in nineteenth century Britain
… of prostitutes and other women in the magdalen asylums, the convict refuge, and the certified inebriate reformatory conducted by a roman catholic order of nuns in nineteenth century Britain. Laundry work came to play a central role in the activities expected of the women admitted to these …
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