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CURE, CLASSIFICATION, AND JOHN CLARE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2005

Michelle Faubert
Michelle Faubert
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University of Toronto
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THE NINETEENTH CENTURY is an important period in the history of psychiatry. According to the accepted narrative about the development of psychiatry as a field, in October of 1793, Philippe Pinel freed the patients at Bicêtre, the hospital for the insane in Paris. This act “heralded a new attitude to the insane,” as Pinel “abolished brutal repression” and “replaced it by a humanitarian medical approach” (Hunter 603). The French physician's approach to madness was officially brought to English soil when his text, A Treatise on Insanity, was translated into English in 1806 by D. D. Davis. His methods then began to appear in English practice and positively bloomed by mid century, particularly in the form of moral management, which advocated freeing patients of physical restraints and emphasizing their abilities to monitor their own behavior, while re-educating them about social mores and expectations (Showalter 27). The period from 1790 to 1850 has been called “the birth of psychiatry” (Donnelly viii).

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EDITORS' TOPIC: VICTORIAN TAXONOMIES
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 269 - 291
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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