HIST 3711 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Elizabeth Packard, Moral Treatment, Dementia
5 Apr 2016
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By the end of the 19th century the asylum was custodial based: place of last resort for the incurable insane human warehouses, no longer a scieniic progressive treatment opion. Sill remained central to public policy despite their failure. Moral treatment deined therapeuic processes prior to the end of 19th century insane could be cured. The major classiicaions of insanity were mania, melancholy, and demenia. Causes and symptoms consuming alcohol, jealously, anxiety, violence, excitement, depression, etc. Appearance of women was important for diagnosis. Elizabeth packard was perhaps the most famous woman who claimed wrongful coninement: she would lead a naional campaign in the us to change commital laws. She never challenged the idea of the asylum in itself. Implementaion of moral therapy supposed to be no physical restraints but instead psychological restraints: but physical restraints were sill used. Moral therapy gender roles women did inside work, men worked outside.
