“Healthy Avenues of the Mind”: Psychological Theory Building and the Influence of Religion During the Era of Moral Treatment
- 1 August 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 155 (8) , 1001-1008
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.155.8.1001
Abstract
This article delineates the main psychological interventions used by American asylum superintendents practicing moral treatment between 1815 and 1875. Further, it explores the impact of Protestant religious ideas on specific aspects of moral treatment's theory and practice.Keywords
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