Llandaff Cathederal: the West Front (1795/6) by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851)
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“Why should a human being deprived of his reason ever become so brutal in character as some do, unless he has the brute nature within him?”
The Pathology of Mind (1879) by Henry Maudsley (1835-1918) #MentalHealth #HIstoryoftheMind #History
Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) was a French Physician instrumental in the development of a humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to as Moral Therapy.
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Mad Kate (1806/7) by Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) …the idea of madness has accumulated around it a mass of prejudices and fears which spring from a desire to keep the social fabric […] intact’. Mad Women in Romantic Writing (1987) by Philip W. Martin #mentalhealth #HistoryoftheMind
“Many lunatics will endure the greatest pain without making the smallest complaint, and are at times obstinate in their concealment that it requires the greatest vigilance and attention to detect the existence of any bodily malady”. Observations of Dr Mono (1816) #MentalHealth
“Rather loose assertions are sometimes made confidently, as if they were well-established facts of observation [when in reality they] have no better foundation than conjecture”. Henry Maudsley (1835-1918) Insanity and Its Treatment 1871 #MentalHealth #History #Bedlam
Landscape Composition with Trees in a Wind, and Distant Hills. By Dr Thomas Monro #art #drawing #TateBritain
Mad Kate (1806/7) by Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) …the idea of madness has accumulated around it a mass of prejudices and fears which spring from a desire to keep the social fabric […] intact’. Mad Women in Romantic Writing (1987) by Philip W. Martin #arthistory #artists #painting