PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Philippe Pinel, Wilhelm Griesinger, Chloral Hydrate
5 Feb 2014
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Moral treatment: -philippe pinel is considered a primary figure in the movement for humanitarian treatment of the mentally ill in asylums. Pinel and tuke started something special: the approach they took was called moral. Drugs used at mental hospitals to treat patients were alcohol, cannabis, opium, and chloral hydrate. Dorothea dix - wanted to see improvement in mental healthcare and campaigned for the establishment of state hospitals to care for mentally ill. Leham wrote the first book which discussed mentally ill people in canada. The first asylums in canada were built during the institution building period prior to ww1. The homewood retreat was created which was a profit oriented , independent, private asylum in guelph ontario. Thomas sydenham was successful in advocating an empirical approach to classification and diagnosis, one that subsequently influenced those interested in mental disorders. Wilhelm griesinger insisted that any diagnosis of mental disorder specify a biological cause.
