The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences, January 1st, 2004
Biderman and Herman (1) recently assessed the contribution of Silas Weir Mitchell to psychiatry and noted that he was a mentor to the psychiatrists of his time. Grob (2), in commenting on this assessment, saw Mitchell as more of a social critic. Both assessments failed to mention the tremendously oppressive nature of his treatments for women of the time. Biderman and Herman noted that Mitchell's "rest cure" brought him fame and fortune (1, p. 33). His rest cure lor women involved complete seclusion in his clinic with an emphasis in Mitchell's published works on rest and diet (Mitchell, 1877)....
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