# mentalhealth history

“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)

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2020-01-17

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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2019-12-12

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

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2019-12-10