CHAPTER XVI .Historical Backgrounds of Mental Defect

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. INTRODUCTION XI
4. Foreword XVII
5. CHAPTER I. Prophets, Demons and Witches 1
6. CHAPTER II .Colonial America: the Old World Heritage 24
7. CHAPTER III. Colonial Provision for the Mentally Ill: Punishment, Repression and Indifference 39
8. CHAPTER IV .Rational Humanitarianism : the Beginnings of Reform 55
9. CHAPTER V. Benjamin Rush—the Father of American Psychiatry 72
10. CHAPTER VI .The Rise of Moral Treatment 88
11. CHAPTER VII .Retrogression: Over the Hill to the Poorhouse 114
12. CHAPTER VIII. The Cult of Curability and the Rise of State Institutions 132
13. CHAPTER IX. Dorothea Lynde Dix—Militant Crusader 158
14. CHAPTER Χ. Mid-Century Psychiatrists 186
15. CHAPTER XI. Conflict of Theories : Restraint or Non- Restraint? 213
16. CHAPTER XII. The Trend Toward State Care 229
17. CHAPTER XIII. State Care: Exodus from the Poorhouse 246
18. CHAPTER XIV. Psychiatry Emerges from Isolation 272
19. CHAPTER XV. The Mental Hygiene Movement and Its Founder 300
20. CHAPTER XVI .Historical Backgrounds of Mental Defect 331
21. CHAPTER XVII. Changing Concepts in Mental Defect 353
22. CHAPTER XVIII. Insanity and the Criminal Law 386
23. CHAPTER XIX. Our Commitment Laws 417
24. CHAPTER XXI. Towards Mental Hygiene 463
25. BIBLIOGRAPHY 497
26. INDEX 515