The moral government of idiots: Moral treatment in the work of Seguin

History of Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 38, 1999, Pages 227-243

  Simpson, Murray K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

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ARTICLE; COUNSELING; FRANCE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; UNITED STATES;

FRANCE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MENTAL RETARDATION; NONDIRECTIVE THERAPY; PSYCHIATRY; SOCIOENVIRONMENTAL THERAPY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033145151     PISSN: 0957154X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957154X9901003804     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. See, e.g., M. Simpson, Bibliography of the History of Idiocy (1997).
2. J. E. D. Esquirol, Mental Maladies: A Treatise on Insanity (facsimile of the English edition of 1845, New York: Hafner Publishing Company, 1965); P. Pinel (1962), A Treatise on Insanity (facsimile of London edition of 1806, New York: Hafner Publishing Co., 1962).
3. R. Castel, The Regulation of Madness: The Origins of Incarceration in France (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988), 134.
4. E.g., J. Ryan and F. Thomas, The Politics of Mental Handicap (London: Free Association Books, 1987); R. C. Scheerenberger, A History of Mental Retardation (Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes, 1983); W. Wolfensberger, The Origin and Nature of our Institutional Models (Syracuse: Human Policy Press, 1975).
5. E.g., M. Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Madness in the Age of Reason (London: Tavistock, 1971); A. Scull, The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain 1700-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993).
6. J. Trent, Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), 41.
7. Jonathan Pim, ‘On the necessity of a State provision for the education of the deaf and dumb, the blind and the imbecile’, paper originally presented to the Statistical and Social Enquiry Society of Ireland, January 20, 1864; reprinted in M. Rosen, G. Clark and M. Kivitz (eds), The History of Mental Retardation, Vol. I, (Baltimore: University Park Press, 1976), 89-101.
8. Though this was itself a rewritten version of the earlier work translated from French as Idiocy: its Diagnosis and Treatment by the Physiological Method published in 1864.
9. Scull, The Most Solitary of Afflictions, 188-98.
10. E. Seguin, Idiocy and its Treatment by the Physiological Method (New York: William Wood & Co., 1866), 214.
11. K. Jones ‘Foreword’, S. Tuke, Description of the Retreat, an Institution Near York for Insane Persons of the Society of Friends (London: Process Press, 1996), xi-xii.
12. D. H. Tuke, Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles (London: Kegan Paul & Trench, 1882), 159-60.
13. A. Scull, Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989), 90, quotation from Reid, Hypochondria, 1816, 303.
14. Scull, The Most Solitary o.f Afflictions
15. J. Conolly, The Construction and Government of Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane (originally published, 1847; reprinted with an introduction by R. Hunter and I. Macalpine, London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1968), 6.
16. Scull, The Most Solitary o,f Afflictions 270.
17. M. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge (London: Routledge, 1972), 65.
18. Scull, The Most Solitary of Afflictions 290.
19. Scull, The Most Solitary of Afflictions 99.
20. J. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Vol. II (London: J. M. Dent, 1961), 242.
21. D. Race, ‘Historical development of service provision’, N. Malin Services for People with Learning Disabilities (London: Routledge, 1995), 46-78.