Major Motivators
Who was Dorothea Dix?
The name that mental asylums were referred to in this time period.
What were lunatic asylums?
The true definition of asylum.
What is protection or sanctuary granted by a country?
The year Dorothea Dix begin her investigations?
What is 1841?
The physician who advocated for the disabled, led movements to expand asylums, and founded the New England Asylum for the Blind.
Who was Samuel Gridley Howe?
The largest asylum in the United States pre-1865.
What was the Willard Asylum for the Insane?
The largest demographic of patients in lunatic asylums.
Who were immigrants and poor people?
The year the first asylum allowed patients to participate in labor.
What is 1832?
The religious group that reformed asylum care with moral treatment.
Who were the Quakers?
The religious institution founded by the Quakers.
The primary cause for death among patients due to poor conditions.
What is tuberculosis?
The year straight jackets were abolished and replaced with non-restraint systems.
What is 1829?
The founder of the Prison Discipline Society in order to improve, inspect, and report on the conditions of public prisons.
Who was Louis Dwight?
The act that mandated authorities build publicly funded institutions.
The act that established a central body for governing asylums.
What was the Lunacy Act 1845?
The year the first psychiatric textbook for asylums was published.
What is 1812?
The man who revolutionized mental asylum design.
Who was Thomas Story Kirkbride?
The plan that restructured the design of asylums.
What was the Kirkbride Plan?
The mindset that asylum owners used to justify the treatment of patients based off of race.
What was racial psychology?
The year Dorothea Dix released her "Memorial to the Legislature".
What is 1843?