Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen : : The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era / / Andrew Scull.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• HerausgeberIn: Scull, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors' essays offer a historical analysis of the issues that continue to plague the psychiatric profession today. Topics covered include the debate over the effectiveness of institutional or community treatment, the boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility, the implementation of commitment laws, and the differences in defining and treating mental illness based on the gender of the patient.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era -- 2. Rationales for Therapy in British Psychiatry, 1780-1835 -- 3. Phrenology and British Alienists, ca. 1825-1845 -- 4. Moral Treatment Reconsidered: Some Sociological Comments on an Episode in the History of British Psychiatry -- 5. A Generous Confidence: Thomas Story Kirkbride's Philosophy of Asylum Construction and Management -- 6. The Discovery of the Asylum Revisited: Lunacy Reform in the New American Republic -- 7. The Treatment of Pauper Lunatics in Victorian England: The Case of Lancaster Asylum, 1816-1870 -- 8. The Model of the Geel Lunatic Colony and Its Influence on the Nineteenth-Century Asylum System in Britain -- 9. The Paradox of Prudence: Mental Health in the Gilded Age -- 10. "A Hollow Square of Psychological Science": American Neurologists and Psychiatrists in Conflict -- 11. The Rejection of Psychological Approaches to Mental Disorder in Late Nineteenth-Century British Psychiatry -- 12. Victorian Women and Insanity -- Psychiatry and the Law -- 13. Liberty and Lunacy: The Victorians and Wrongful Confinement -- 14. The Boundary Between Insanity and Criminal Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century England -- Notes