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Considered the father of American psychiatry, Rush was an enthusiastic advocate of blood-letting, almost killing himself with it to cure Yellow fever



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Considered the father of American psychiatry, Rush was an enthusiastic advocate of blood-letting, almost killing himself with it to cure Yellow fever.

  • Considered the father of American psychiatry, Rush was an enthusiastic advocate of blood-letting, almost killing himself with it to cure Yellow fever.

  • Blood-letting was used to “quiet the blood” because excessive stimulation and excitement produced mental & physical illness (Brunonian system).

  • Rush founded a wing for treatment of the insane at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelpha.

    • His belief that the insane deserved treatment was admirable but his methods were barbaric.


Pinel is considered the father of scientific psychiatry.

  • Pinel is considered the father of scientific psychiatry.

  • His personal experience with a manic-depressive friend motivated his interest in studying insanity.

    • Daquin asserted that insanity was a disease that could be understand by the methods of natural science.
  • Encouraged by Daquin, Pinel urged humane treatment of the insane, not beatings or ridicule.

  • As a result he was appointed Director of the Bicetre asylum in Paris (1793).



In a cautious and systematic way, Pinel began removing chains from the inmates.

  • In a cautious and systematic way, Pinel began removing chains from the inmates.

    • 8 years earlier, Chiarugi outlawed chains in Italy.
    • One of the men released later saved Pinel from a lynch mob accusing him of poisoning wells & harboring rich.
    • He used the minimal restraint necessary for safety.
  • Deaths fell from 50-60% to about 12% after he implemented his changes.

  • In 1795 he was appointed head of La Salpetriere, the women’s asylum with 8000 inmates.



The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates at the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (by Peter Weiss).

  • The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates at the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (by Peter Weiss).

  • The characters in a play depicting the French Revolution (15 years earlier) are played by inmates with various symptoms. The audience is nobility, as was common. The time is 1794.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcJKxrDczSo&feature=related



Pinel was asked to examine a boy of 12 who had walked out of the woods of Saint-Serin in Aveyron.

  • Pinel was asked to examine a boy of 12 who had walked out of the woods of Saint-Serin in Aveyron.

  • The boy seemed to bear upon a philosophical controversy – Rousseau said a natural life is best because civilization corrupts (noble savage idea).

  • One of Pinel’s assistants, Itard, tried to educate him.

    • He was able to teach him basic self-care but not to talk. He was unpredictable and violent when stressed.
    • His efforts suggested that retarded children from less deprived backgrounds might be helped by remediation


Guggenbuhl wondered whether cretins could be cured, especially by diet, exercise & vitamins.

  • Guggenbuhl wondered whether cretins could be cured, especially by diet, exercise & vitamins.

    • A cretin is a thyroid-deficient dwarfed individual with mental subnormality, from the French word.
  • His claims of success were investigated and found to be bogus – the inmates were neglected and unimproved. Guggenbuhl fled with the money.

  • His legacy is that hundreds of asylums for the mentally retarded were established with better results.



Tuke was a prosperous, retired Quaker gentleman.

  • Tuke was a prosperous, retired Quaker gentleman.

  • Appalled by conditions at an asylum in York and the death of a Quakeress, Tuke decided to found his own “retreat” for persons with mental disorders.

  • Tuke’s York retreat resembled a farm and patients and staff were both treated like family.

  • Thomas Scattergood visited his retreat. Inspired by his report, the Quakers founded the first private psychiatric hospital in the USA in Philadelphia.



Teaching in a prison school, Dix realized that many women who were mentally ill were being treated like criminals, but not allowed prisoners’ privileges.

  • Teaching in a prison school, Dix realized that many women who were mentally ill were being treated like criminals, but not allowed prisoners’ privileges.

  • She became an advocate, travelling from state to state and publicizing the abuses and mistreatments.

  • She lobbied for a land-grant bill to enable states to build mental institutions, but it was vetoed by Pierce.

  • During the Civil War she worked as a nurse, then lectured Queen Victoria & chided the Pope.



The first public institution opened in Williamsburg VA in 1773, part prison and part infirmary.

  • The first public institution opened in Williamsburg VA in 1773, part prison and part infirmary.

  • Many large state-run institutions were established, initially run humanely on the “retreat” model, but they were inundated with the chronically disturbed.

  • Disproportionately large numbers of immigrants were committed and states couldn’t cope with the ethnic and cultural differences.


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