Moral treatment reconsidered: some sociological comments on an episode in the history of British psychiatry
- 1 May 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 9 (3) , 421-428
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700031962
Abstract
Synopsis A reappraisal is offered of the precise sense in which the introduction of moral treats ment at the end of the eighteenth century marked a decisive shift in our characteristic ways of responding to and coping with the mentally disturbed. Some connections are explored between this new approach to the ‘mad’ and larger social movements and processes.Keywords
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