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The Moral Treatment Of Insanity
But however useful bodily labor may be to some, we regard it as less so generally as a curative measure, and less applicable in many cases, than mental occupation or the regular and rational employment of the mind....
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Title: The Moral Treatment Of Insanity
Creator: Amariah Brigham (author)
Date: July 1847
Format: Article
Publication: American Journal of Insanity
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: vol.4, no.1, pp.1-15
Keywords: Amariah Brigham; Asylums; Attendants; Benjamin Rush; Confinement; Doctors; Employment; England; France; Health & Medicine; Insanity; Institutions; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Moral Treatment; New York; New York State Lunatic Asylum; Philippe Pinel; Professional Associations; Psychiatric Disability; Social Welfare & Communities; Treatments Therapies Cures; Work; York Retreat
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Science, Health & Technology; Social Movements & Advocacy