Mental Health In The 19th Century
One of the most important challenges for different societies , state and cultures is to promote and maintain positive mental health. The societal knowledge and views about mental illness throughout history have continuously changed , creating new and diverse connotations in the way the mentally ill are cared for and treated.
The treatments varied from primitive psychiatric forms of care from the 8th century in Islamic hospitals, according to Howells (1975) to a milieu therapy as archaic approach in Middle Ages. Until the 19th century , there is no form of organised systematic care for people with mental illness, excepting charitable provision or public asylums.
Rogers, A. & Pilgrim, D (2001), points out the beginning of the 19th century
The treatments varied from primitive psychiatric forms of care from the 8th century in Islamic hospitals, according to Howells (1975) to a milieu therapy as archaic approach in Middle Ages. Until the 19th century , there is no form of organised systematic care for people with mental illness, excepting charitable provision or public asylums.
Rogers, A. & Pilgrim, D (2001), points out the beginning of the 19th century