HIST 3640 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Daily Telegraph, Friends House, 500 Euro Note
22 Jan 2019
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The wild boys and the history of psychiatry iii. The birth of the asylum, and the beginning of asylums. The story of aslyums is one of good intentions gone bad. In the preface of the book, shorter writes: the history of psychiatry is a minefield. 1774 act for regulating madhouses: all mad houses be licensed by a committee of the royal college of surgeons. Psychiatrists concluded that they should be studying the brain more closely to see how it may affect the behavior. It now seemed possible that the insane could inherit defects. The impact of this theory was that the theory may be passing on defects, or those that damaged their own body would pass it onto their children, people would be born deficient from the get go. Mental problems came from physical causes, and then mental troubles could come from the physical behaviour or the moral problems from trauma, shock or depression could find themselves with psychiatric problems.
