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2.1. The Lunacy Act of 1890. In 1889, Parliament imposed new legislation on psychiatrists and lunatic asylums under pressure from public anxieties about wrongful confinement, which was engendered by newspapers and journals between the 1860s and 1880s. 16 In particular, the case of a Mrs Weldon drove the public to demand legal safeguards from wrongful confinement. 17 A politician sensitive to ...
- The History of Mental Health Services in Modern England
The question remains as to whether recent attitudes to risk...
- The History of Mental Health Services in Modern England
May 20, 2011 · The 19th century ushered in a new way of seeing mental health. For the first time, ‘madness’ was not a condition understood as an extension of the criminal or poor classes, but as a unique social group in its own right. Central government undertook the beginnings of a structured response to the way in which those suffering from mental ...
Inspired by Dessoir and Groos, Moll had, by the end of the 1890s, formulated a groundbreaking new evolutionary theory of the sexual drive that he believed set in during childhood. 72 Although the issue of childhood sexuality had been considered since the mid-nineteenth century, and in particular during the 1890s, Moll’s analysis was more detailed, wide ranging and considerate than that of ...
- Lutz D.H. Sauerteig
- 2012
Joseph Bristow opens his chapter on “Female Decadence” for the 2016 volume The History of British Women's Writing, 1880–1920 by saying, “There is no question that by the mid-1890s one word had come to define avant-garde art and literature in Britain,” and that word was decadence. Judging by the recent proliferation of books and art exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic, history ...
the mind emotion hatred feeling against or a settled dislike [nouns] one possessed by an antipathy antipathite 1613–38 A person who has a natural antipathy towards someone or something else. Cf. antipathist , n.
Apr 1, 2020 · The influence of ideologies is most simply exposed by looking at historiography, which is the study of how and why historians, as both individuals and in schools, approach their subject. 5, 6 The prevailing narrative of asylum development in the mid-20th century is exemplified by Kathleen Jones, whose work still features among the recommended reading at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK.
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Jun 11, 2021 · Surprisingly, the birth of the American western genre can be traced directly to early psychiatric treatment. In the late 19th century, before the mental health community had named or differentiated the psychiatric illnesses identified today, there was neurasthenia, which referred to ailments that included what we would now call anxiety, depression, postpartum depression, and bipolar disorder ().
