An era has come and gone in the history of he care and treatment of
the mentally ill, the Aslyum era. Close to two centuries ago the
first institutions were erected. They proliferated throughout the
Western world holding ever-increasing numbers of those deemed to be
insane. They reached their limit of expansion in the 1950s and
since that time have gradually diminished until they all but
disappeared at the end of the 20th century. The early chapters of
this book discuss the defining boundaries of psychiatric histories
and the need for an historical understanding to be included in the
education of mental health professionals. They are followed by a
brief overview of the mental illnesses and the various theories
that attempt to explain the growth of asylums. The ]traditional
path] of psychiatric histories is visited as I look at the evidence
of madness in the Ancient World through until the period defined as
]Modern Psychiatry] from the Enlightenment and the advent of moral
treatment until recent times. Later chapters trace the development
of the large institutions for the insane drawing on records of the
then Lunacy Department and later Department of Mental Hygiene.
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