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The psychopathic hospital.
- Source :
- History of Psychiatry; Dec2023, Vol. 34 Issue 4, p417-433, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- A new psychiatric institution emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the psychopathic hospital. This institution represented a significant development in the history of psychiatry, as it marked the profession's reorientation from asylum-based to hospital-based care, and in this way presaged the deinstitutionalization movement that would begin half a century later. Psychopathic hospitals were also an important marker of psychiatry's efforts to redefine its professional boundaries and respond to its vociferous critics. This entailed both a rapprochement with general medicine in an effort to assert its scientific bona fides and a redefinition of its scope of practice to absorb non-certifiable 'borderland' cases in order both to emphasize non-coercive treatment and to enlarge the profession's boundaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- BORDERLANDS
MEDICAL practice
HOSPITALS
DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION
TWENTIETH century
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0957154X
- Volume :
- 34
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- History of Psychiatry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 173550978
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X231194910