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SOCIAL CONTROL DOCTRINES OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA.
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Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences . Jan93, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p29-47. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 1993
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Abstract
- Social control doctrines of mental disorders have influenced a generation of psychologists and have shaped attitudes and discussions about how to treat mentally ill. In light of the failure of deinstitutionalization as a public policy and the contemporary concern with the medical or biological bases of psychiatric disorders, this paper re-examines social control doctrines. Reviewing mid-nineteen century statistical accounts, the author challeges claims of social control theorists and shows that in recent years some former social control advocates and revisionists have “ recanted ” and critized their earlier use of the concept of social control, particulary the characterization of the asylum as a “ total institution ”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *MENTAL illness treatment
*SOCIAL control
*PSYCHOLOGY
*MEDICINE
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00225061
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 11988595
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/1520-6696(199301)29:1<29::AID-JHBS2300290105>3.0.CO;2-5