PSYCH-230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dorothea Dix, Philippe Pinel, Dementia Praecox
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Founded in 1243 in london, devoted to the confinement of the mentally ill. Conditions were deplorable (bedlam a descriptive term for a place or scene of wild uproar and confusion) Eventually became one of london"s greatest paid tourist attractions because viewing violent patients was considered entertainment. Moral treatment: the unchaining of inmates at la bicetre. Philippe pinel (1745-1826) considered primary figure in movement for humanitarian treatment of the mentally ill in asylums. Resulting in some patients incarcerated for years were discharged. Moral treatment was abandoned in the latter part of the 19th century but dorothea. Boston schoolteacher who taught a sunday-school class at the local prison. Shocked by the deplorable conditions and interest spread to the conditions of patients in mental hospitals. Campaigned vigorously and successfully to improve the lives of people with mental illnesses. In the late 19th century/early 20th century, there was a return to the somatogenic views first espoused by hippocrates.
