Title Moments of unreason : the practice of Canadian psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923 / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh

Published Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1989

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations Contents Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Retreat from the Madhouse: Ontario's First Experiment in Corporate Health Care -- 3 Asylum Superintendents and the Medical Community, 1883�1923 -- 4 The Medical World of the Asylum: Diagnostics and Therapeutics -- 5 The First Mrs Rochester: Family Motivations for Commitment and the Dynamics of Social Redundancy -- 6 Hearth to Homewood: Domestic Life, Mental Breakdown, and Responses to the Institution -- 7 Daily Life at Homewood: the Sub-Culture of Work 8 Resistant Patients and the Reactive Institution9 Because There Is Pain: Medical Treatment of Alcoholism -- 10 The Aristocratic Vice: Medical Treatment of Drug Addiction in the Nineteenth Century -- 11 Conclusion -- Appendices -- 1 Prospectus of 1883 -- 2 Prospectus of 1915 -- 3 The Life Chart of Emily C. -- 4 Sample Patient History and Admitting Interview -- 5 Prospectus of 1934 -- 6 Schedule of Prices for Inebriates -- 7 Instructions for the Use of the Continuous Baths -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources IndexA -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y Summary Moments of Unreason is the first detailed study of a private asylum in North America: the Homewood Retreat in Guelph, Ontario, established in 1883 as an early Canadian venture into corporate health care. Cheryl Krasnick Warsh studies the careers of its first two medical superintendents, Stephen Lett and Alfred Hobbs, which spanned the evolution of mental health theory from moral management to mental therapeutics and, later, neuro-psychiatry. This evolution did not make practical management of the Institute less complex: an under-paid, undertrained work force combined with an unruly patient population resulted in instances of neglect, abuse, and over-medication Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Homewood Retreat -- History SUBJECT Homewood Retreat Homewood Retreat fast Subject Psychiatric hospitals -- Ontario -- Guelph -- History Psychiatry -- Canada -- History -- 19th century Psychiatric hospitals -- Ontario -- Guelph -- History -- 19th century Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history Psychiatry -- history MEDICAL -- Mental Health. PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health. PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness. MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General. Psychiatric hospitals Psychiatry Psychiatrische inrichtingen. Psychiatrie. SUBJECT Ontario Subject Canada Ontario -- Guelph Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773562035 0773562036

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