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Mental Health Reform of the 1800s

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Caroline Burford

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Before the Reformation

The Reformation

  • Those considered mentally ill or disabled were placed in confinement with prisoners.
  • Individuals with such conditions were often treated like animals.
  • These people were left starving, little clothing, and were forced to live in dark cells.
  • Along with these horrible conditions, both men and women were subject to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.
  • As a result of Dix's efforts jails, poorhouses, and insane asylums conditions improved greatly.
  • Between 1865-1880 24 mental hospitals were built for those people in dire need.
  • Dix also persuaded many states to take responsibility for the mentally ill.

http://crazymer1.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/dorothea-dix-mental-health-pioneer/

THE END

Dorothea Dix

  • In 1841 a puritan woman, by the name of Dorothea Dix, agreed to teach Sunday school in a Boston jail.
  • Dix was horrified to find how the mentally ill were put in crowded prisons cells, where they were whipped if they misbehaved.
  • She believed that the mentally ill needed proper treatment and care instead of the harsh punishment ensued on them.
  • After this experience, Dix spent two years visiting institutions in Massachusetts.
  • Dix took this information from the horrors she observed and went to the Massachusetts state legislature.

http://www.nndb.com/people/415/000115070/

Dorothea Dix

"I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned would start with real horror" -Dorthea Dix

http://masshumanities.org/shwlp/shwlp/shwlptour/alttour/shwlalt09.html

Mentally ill

http://social.rollins.edu/wpsites/thirdsight/2013/09/23/women-in-insane-asylums/

The Mental Health Reform of the 1800s

By: Caroline Burford

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