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William Tuke was born on 24 March 1732 in York into a prominent Quaker family. His father Samuel was a stuff-weaver and shopkeeper, who died when Tuke was 16. His mother Ann died seven years later. Tuke attended boarding school for two or three years, after which he pursued further studies under clergymen.
Herbert Spencer, George Lewes and Alexander Bain published widely acknowledged works on the mind which differed from previous opinions, while Thomas Laycock and William Benjamin Carpenter published additional pre-Freudian writings in the 1840s and 50s, [5] quoted by Tuke in his publications. [1] Victorian Psychology was marked by the continuous ...
Moral treatment was an approach to mental disorder based on humane psychosocial care or moral discipline that emerged in the 18th century and came to the fore for much of the 19th century, deriving partly from psychiatry or psychology and partly from religious or moral concerns.
William A. F. Browne was an influential reformer of the lunatic asylum in the mid-19th century, and an advocate of the new 'science' of phrenology. Although Tuke, Pinel and others had tried to do away with physical restraint, it remained widespread in the 19th century.
Historically, mental disorders have had three major explanations, namely, the supernatural, biological and psychological models. [1] For much of recorded history, deviant behavior has been considered supernatural and a reflection of the battle between good and evil.
Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach developed the Rorschach Inkblot Test. 1921. Sigmund Freud published Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. 1923. German pharmacologist Otto Loewi and English neuroscientist Sir Henry Dale discovered Acetylcholine, the first neurotransmitter to be described, winning them the 1936 Nobel Prize. 1924
A new generation favoured pathological anatomy, seeking to locate mental disorders in brain lesions. Pinel undertook comparisons of skull sizes, and considered possible physiological substrates, [4]: 309 but he was criticized for his emphasis on psychology and the social environment. Opponents were bolstered by the discovery of brain anomalies ...
His great-grandfather William Tuke and his grandfather Henry Tuke co-founded the Retreat, which revolutionized the treatment of insane people. His father Samuel Tuke carried on the work of the York Retreat and reported on its methods and its results. Daniel's older brother James Hack Tuke (1819–1896) was the next overseer of the York Retreat ...