A Psychiatric Milestone eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 148 pages of information about A Psychiatric Milestone.

A Psychiatric Milestone eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 148 pages of information about A Psychiatric Milestone.
Lt.  Col.  Arthur W. Whaley, M.D.  New York City. 
Mrs. Arthur W. Whaley New York City. 
Miss Margaret Wheeler Short Hills, N.J. 
Payne Whitney New York City. 
Frankwood E. Williams, M.D.  New York City. 
Rodney R. Williams, M.D.  Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 
O.J.  Wilsey, M.D.  Amityville, N.Y. 
John E. Wilson, M.D.  New York City. 
Miss A. Wilson New York City. 
J.M.  Winfield, M.D.  Brooklyn, N.Y. 
G. Howard Wise New York City. 
Miss Frances E. Wood White Plains, N.Y. 
Robert C. Woodman, M.D.  Middletown, N.Y. 
Robert S. Woodworth, Ph.D.  New York City.

Rev. John C. York Brooklyn, N.Y.

Edwin G. Zabriskie, M.D.  New York City. 
Charles C. Zacharie, M.D.  White Plains, N.Y.

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 19:  If any names are omitted it is because these names and addresses were not obtained.]

APPENDICES

APPENDIX I

COMMUNICATIONS FROM DR. BEDFORD PIERCE, MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
RETREAT, YORK, ENGLAND

May 5th, 1921.

DEAR DR. RUSSELL: 

I have read with much pleasure your pamphlet giving the history of Bloomingdale Hospital.  The reproduction in facsimile of Thomas Eddy’s communication[20] is especially interesting and it will be placed with the records of the early days of the Retreat.

We have looked through the Minutes, which are complete from the opening of the Retreat in 1796, and also examined a large number of original letters of William and Samuel Tuke respecting the Institution, but have not succeeded in tracing the letter from S. Tuke to William Eddy, to which you refer.  As you are probably aware, S. Tuke was the grandson of William Tuke, the founder, and when he published the History of the Retreat in 1812 he was but twenty-eight years of age.  This book had a far-reaching influence on the treatment of the insane, and it is remarkable that a man untrained in medicine and without university education should have been able to write it.  The book is now very rare, but as we have three duplicate copies, I am authorized by the Directors of the Retreat to present your Hospital with one of them.  I have already sent you a copy of an address of my own dealing with Psychiatry in England at about the time your Hospital was instituted.

The use of the term “moral treatment” as opposed to treatment of physical disease has in recent years become especially interesting.  It is clear that Tuke and Pinel foresaw that psychotherapeutic treatment is necessary, and their efforts were directed towards providing effective “sublimation” of misdirected psychical energy.

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