Recovery From Schizophrenia: Psychiatry And Political Economy

MADNESS AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONNOTES 3211 Charles-Gaspard de la Rive, a Swiss doctor. Quoted in Foucault, M., Madness andCivilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, New York: Vintage Books,1973, p. 242. Also quoted in Jones, K., A History of the Mental Health Services,London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972, p. 47. According to Foucault the passageappeared in a letter to the editors of the Bibliothèque britannique; according to Jones itwas written in the visitors’ book of the Retreat. One assumes both are correct, andthat Dr de la Rive used the same material twice.2 Daniel Hack Tuke stated that the name Retreat was suggested by his grandmother,William Tuke’s daughter-in-law, to convey the idea of a haven. Quoted by Jones,History of Mental Health Services, p. 47.3 These details of moral treatment at the York Retreat are drawn from the followingsources: Mora, G, “Historical and theoretical trends in psychiatry,” in H.I.Kaplan,A.M.Freedman and B.J.Sadock (eds), Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry-III,Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1980, pp. 4–98. The reference is to pp. 55–7;Jones, History of Mental Health Services, pp. 45–54; Foucault, Madness and Civilization,pp. 241–55.4 Thurnam, J., Observations and Essays on the Statistics of Insanity, London: Simpkin,Marshall, 1845, reprint edition New York: Arno Press, 1976. Quoted in Jones,History of Mental Health Services, p. 66.5 Both passages are from Godfrey Higgins’ letter to the York Herald, 10 January 1814.Quoted in Jones, History of Mental Health Services, p. 70.6 Both quotations are from Dickens, C. and Wills, W.H., “A curious dance around acurious tree,” in H.Stone (ed.), Charles Dickens’ Uncollected Writings from HouseholdWords 1850–1859, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968, pp. 381–91. Thepassages quoted are on pp. 382–3.7 Parry-Jones, W.L., The Trade in Lunacy: A Study of Private Madhouses in England inthe Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972, p.289.8 Scull, A., “Moral treatment reconsidered: Some sociological comments onan episode in the history of British psychiatry,” in A.Scull (ed.), Madhouses, Maddoctors,and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 105–18. This reference is on p. 107.9 Foucault, Madness and Civilization, p. 68.10 Ibid., pp. 74–5.11 Ibid., pp. 68–78; Scull, “Moral treatment reconsidered,” pp. 106–10.12 Dr de la Rive’s remarks are translated from the original French which was quoted inJones, History of Mental Health Services, p. 49.13 Regolamento dei Regi Spedali di Santa Maria Nuova de Bonifazio. Hospital regulationsprepared under the supervision of Vincenzo Chiarugi in 1789. Quoted in Mora,“Historical and theoretical trends,” p. 42.14 Daquin, J., La Philosophie de la folie, Chambéry, 1791, cited in Mora, “Historical andtheoretical trends,” p. 57.15 Mora, “Historical and theoretical trends,” p. 54.16 Jones, History of Mental Health Services, p. 44.