From isolated asylums to the medical mainstream : psychiatry’s journey towards normalization within somatic medicine, 1900-1970

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dc.contributor.advisor Twohig, Peter
dc.creator Myrick, Alex
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-15T18:07:38Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-15T18:07:38Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.identifier.other RC438 M97 2020
dc.identifier.uri http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/29480
dc.description 205 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
dc.description Includes abstract and appendix.
dc.description Includes bibliographical references (leaves 190-205).
dc.description.abstract Early in the twentieth century, therapeutic pessimism gripped psychiatry as chronic patients overcrowded mental asylums. Psychiatry grew isolated from the rest of medicine and many feared the specialty was medically irrelevant. Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer devised reforms that would integrate psychiatry into medical schools and general hospitals. This was meant to remove the stigma attached to mental illness and asylums. Moreover, psychiatrists would form productive relationships with somatic physicians which they lacked in asylum practice. This transition, however, was challenged by physicians who argued that the mentally ill had no place in their institutions. Through Meyer’s reforms, psychiatry’s role in medicine and society was altered, and a process of psychiatric normalization ensued across North America. A close examination of this transformation in Nova Scotia provides a case study that demonstrates how Meyer’s ideas spread via medical journals, and through students such as Dr. Robert O. Jones, who implemented Meyer’s reform strategy. en_CA
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dc.language.iso en en_CA
dc.publisher Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University
dc.subject.lcc RC438
dc.subject.lcsh Meyer, Adolf, 1866-1950 -- Influence
dc.subject.lcsh Jones, Robert O. (Psychiatrist)
dc.subject.lcsh Psychiatry -- History -- 20th century
dc.subject.lcsh Psychiatry -- Nova Scotia -- History
dc.title From isolated asylums to the medical mainstream : psychiatry’s journey towards normalization within somatic medicine, 1900-1970 en_CA
dc.type Text en_CA
thesis.degree.name Master of Arts in History
thesis.degree.level Masters
thesis.degree.discipline History
thesis.degree.grantor Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.)
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