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A Victorian Mental Asylum Science Museum

(5 days ago) The Victorian mental asylum has the reputation of a place of misery where inmates were locked up and left to the mercy of their keepers. But when the first large asylums were built in the early 1800s, t… See more

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/victorian-mental-asylum

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What Was Life Like in a Victorian Mental Asylum? History Hit

(1 days ago) WEBBy the Victorian era, new attitudes towards mental health started emerging, with barbaric restraint devices falling out of favour and a more sympathetic, scientific …

https://www.historyhit.com/life-in-a-victorian-mental-asylum/

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Bedlam: Why Did The Infamous Asylum Have Such A …

(Just Now) WEBBethlem was founded in 1247 and through most of its history reflected contemporary views on the treatment and care of people with a mental illness. There was, however, a darker period when the …

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/bethlem-royal-hospital-history-why-called-bedlam-lunatic-asylum/

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Inconvenient people: A Victorian view of mental-health treatment

(Just Now) WEBWellcome Trust. Sarah Wise was inspired to write about Victorian attitudes to mental health by the 1930s play Gas Light. "What they're really all about is a grab for …

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-27148737

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Mania, dementia and melancholia in the 1870s: …

(2 days ago) WEBIn the 1870s St Lawrence's Hospital in Bodmin, Cornwall, had been running for 50 years, one of sixteen county asylums set up between 1811 and 1842. By examining 511 …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539549/

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Asylums: the historical perspective before, during, and after

(3 days ago) WEBExtensive institutionalisation of people with mental disorders has a brief history lasting just 150 years. Yet asylums feature prominently in modern perceptions of psychiatry's …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(19)30395-5/fulltext

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What life was like in mental hospitals in the early 20th …

(9 days ago) WEBLike many hospitals of this era, it also housed people with long-term learning disabilities and elderly people with dementia. Fresh air therapy is just one of a range of holistic treatments used

https://theconversation.com/what-life-was-like-in-mental-hospitals-in-the-early-20th-century-119949

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Mental Disease and Victorian Asylums COVE

(Just Now) WEBThe general perspective of mental health was rather poor and ill-favored towards those who struggled with mental illness. Those who were unable to function in …

https://editions.covecollective.org/content/mental-disease-and-victorian-asylums

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Learning From the Past, Looking to the Future: Is Victorian …

(2 days ago) WEBThe article traces the history of Victorian mental health legislation, from the opening of the first asylum in 1848, to the agitation for reform in the late 1970s which led …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13218710802101639

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Wellcome Library archive sheds new light on history of …

(6 days ago) WEBT alk of Victorian asylums conjures up images of manacled and wretched patients suffering callous and ineffective treatments or being gawped at by a morbidly fascinated public like exhibits in a

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/17/wellcome-library-archive-history-mental-healthcare-asylums

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Life Inside Victoria's 19th-Century 'Lunatic' Asylums

(9 days ago) WEBIt's a different universe to 19th century offerings, when stigma and fear shaped institutional care and dysfunction was attributed to gender, class or sin. The …

https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbpqwj/life-inside-victorias-19th-century-lunatic-asylums

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From Madness to Mental Health: A Brief History of Psychiatric

(9 days ago) WEBThe care and treatment of mentally ill people have largely been determined by social and political forces. From Madness to Mental Health: A Brief History of Psychiatric …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/030802269005301009

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Victorian Oppression of Women Through Psychiatry - The Atlantic

(1 days ago) WEBIn 1867, the 17-year-old allegedly poisoned her stepfather’s afternoon cup, killing him. Why would she do such a thing? According to Abbott, the old man had carried on an “ …

https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/netflix-2017/how-victorian-women-were-oppressed-through-the-use-of-psychiatry/1607/

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Mental Illness and Psychiatry in the Victorian Era: An Analysis …

(Just Now) WEBHence the gender inequality embedded in the Victorian social structure was further bolstered by psychiatry and its one-dimensional views on femininity and mental illness; …

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1797&context=cc_etds_theses

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Treating Mental Illness in Victorian Britain - The Activist History …

(4 days ago) WEBThe treatment of mental illness simply isn’t good enough. Of course, the demise of the asylum isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but the services designed to replace …

https://activisthistory.com/2017/05/19/treating-mental-illness-in-victorian-britain/

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Madness and Asylums in Victorian Literature: A Journey Through …

(4 days ago) WEBWithin the dark recesses of Victorian literature, a recurring theme emerged - madness and the treatment of mental illness. This thematic exploration was intrinsically …

https://victorianvignettes.substack.com/p/madness-and-asylums-in-victorian

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A model for mental health advance directives in the new Victorian

(3 days ago) WEBIntroduction. In March 2021, the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System (the Commission) released its final report, introducing wide-ranging …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9487914/

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About the final report of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s …

(6 days ago) WEBThe final report of the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System was tabled in a special sitting of the Victorian Parliament on 2 March 2021. The …

https://www.health.vic.gov.au/mental-health-reform/about-the-final-report-of-the-royal-commission-into-victorias-mental-health

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Statement of rights health.vic.gov.au

(Just Now) WEBKey messages. A statement of rights sets out a person’s rights, and the processes that apply, while a person is receiving a mental health and wellbeing service …

https://www.health.vic.gov.au/mental-health-and-wellbeing-act-handbook/statement-of-rights

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Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum

(8 days ago) WEBFor patients in Victorian asylums, therefore, music was an important part of mental health treatment – not only providing an opportunity for creative engagement but …

https://theconversation.com/music-and-mental-health-the-parallels-between-victorian-asylum-treatments-and-modern-social-prescribing-200576

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Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System - final report

(3 days ago) WEBThe Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System (RCVMHC) delivered its final report. The final report was tabled in a special sitting of the Victorian Parliament on 2 …

https://www.vic.gov.au/royal-commission-victorias-mental-health-system-final-report

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