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- Title
A Vision Lost.
- Authors
CAVENDER, ANTHONY P.
- Abstract
The article discusses the institutional vision and philosophy of moral treatment practiced by physician and Marion, Virginia, Southwestern Lunatic Asylum Robert J. Preston during his stewardship of the asylum from 1887 to 1906. It examines the Southwestern complex, Preston's insistence that Southwestern conduct scientific research into the causes of insanity, and backlash toward asylum superintendents such as Preston by neurologists. It also discusses the aspects of moral treatment, Preston's approach to puerperal insanity, and Preston's efforts to solve institutional overcrowding.
- Subjects
MARION (Va.); UNITED States; PRESTON, Robert J.; ASYLUMS (Institutions); PSYCHIATRIC hospitals; MENTAL health services; MEDICAL ethics; MENTAL illness &; ethics; PSYCHIATRY; HISTORY
- Publication
Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, 2014, Vol 122, Issue 3, p202
- ISSN
0042-6636
- Publication type
Article