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The Asylum as Utopia - W.A.F. Browne and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Consolidation of Psychiatry (Paperback)
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The Asylum as Utopia - W.A.F. Browne and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Consolidation of Psychiatry (Paperback)
Series: Psychology Revivals
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What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be, first published in 1837,
was of considerable significance in the history of lunacy reform in
Britain. It contains perhaps the single most influential portrait
by a medical author of the horrors of the traditional madhouse
system. Its powerful and ideologically resonant description of the
contrasting virtues of the reformed asylum, a hive of therapeutic
activity under the benevolent but autocratic guidance and control
of its medical superintendent, provided within a brief compass a
strikingly attractive alternative vision of an apparently
attainable utopia. Browne's book thus provided important impetus to
the efforts then under way to make the provision of county asylums
compulsory, and towards the institution of a national system of
asylum inspection and supervision. This edition, originally
published in 1991 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History
of Psychiatry series, contains a lengthy introductory essay by
Andrew Scull. Scull discusses the social context within which What
Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be came to be written, examines the
impact of the book on the progress of lunacy reform, and places its
author's career in the larger framework of the development of
Victorian psychiatry as an organised profession. Through an
examination of Browne's tenure as superintendent of the Crichton
Royal Asylum in Dumfries, Scull compares the theory and practice of
asylum care in the moral treatment era, revealing the remorseless
processes through which such philanthropic foundations degenerated
into more or less well-tended cemeteries for the still-breathing -
institutions almost startlingly remote from Browne's earlier
visions of what they ought to be.
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