ANTC24H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Philippe Pinel, William Tuke, The Retreat
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*rec. beginning (dsm, birth of bio-med. psychiatry + neurosci. ) End of the 18th hundreds, 1790"s it was thought that the sane should have mercy on the mad. Humane treatment of madness, lib. two main houses of confinement in partic. The keeper (not yet psych. person of this era) has to remind them of their behav. , transgressions; this mean conscious checking in: keeper checks in w/ patient and vice versa; constant surveill. and monitoring. He never used meds, didn"t believe in them; but he didn"t use these all the time - just in extreme cases; believed that he was a tamer of sorts. Retreat was model for asylums around the world espec. in n. a. and england. ; this hum. was always present despite a person"s behav. /no matter how mad they were; it was all about restoring this humanity in its full sense. *phillipe: wasn"t a relig. person; too much relig. fervour was a source of madness unto itself.
