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The Philosophy of Restraint in the Management and Treatment of the Insane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Robert W. D. Cameron
Robert W. D. Cameron*
Affiliation:
Midlothian District Asylum, Rosewell, Edinburgh
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Only since advancing science has demonstrated the true connection between mind and body, and dispelled the illusory fancies of metaphysicians, has a rational philosophy sprang up regarding the nature of mental processes. The study ot psychology having at length been placed on a proper basis and freed from the spiritualistic haze with which it has so long been shrouded, there is now great reason to hope that much may be accomplished in elucidating the various phenomena of mental disease. No study of insanity that is not founded on a physical basis can be of any real value in throwing light on the many phases of mental disorder, or in assisting to a knowledge of the proper method of treatment and management of the insane.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 28 , Issue 123 , October 1882 , pp. 347 - 356
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1882 

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References

* Maudsley's “Pathology of Mind,” p. 99. Google Scholar

* “(a) The first class, consisting of those who, not being really criminally disposed, have fallen in consequence of the extraordinary pressure of ex ceptionally adverse circumstances; Google Scholar

“(b) The second class, of those who, having some degree of criminal disposition, might still have been saved from crime had they had the advantages of a fair education and of propitious conditions of life, instead of the disadvantages of an evil education and of criminal surroundings; Google Scholar

“(c) The third class, of born criminals, whose instincts urge them blindly into criminal activity, whatever their circumstances of life, and whom neither kindness, nor instruction, nor punishment, will reform, they returning naturally to crime when their sentences are expired like the dog to its vomit or the sow to its wallowing in the mire.” (“Pathology of Mind,” p. 104.) Google Scholar

* “Pathology of Mind,” p. 100. Google Scholar

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