Cheerful prospects and tranquil restoration: the visual experience of landscape as part of the therapeutic regime of the British asylum, 1800-60.

Abstract:

:The early nineteenth-century asylum in Britain was generally sited upon a hill with wide-ranging rural views, surrounded by agricultural land, gardens and landscaped grounds. A number of historians have discussed the role of these features as places for patients to partake in recreation, exercise and work. This paper will add to this literature by exploring the possibility that, alongside this active participation and interaction, the passive experience of viewing the landscape and the location of the asylum within a rural setting were also expected to have a therapeutic role.

journal_name

Hist Psychiatry

journal_title

History of psychiatry

authors

Hickman C

doi

10.1177/0957154X08338335

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-12-01 00:00:00

pages

425-41

issue

80 Pt 4

eissn

0957-154X

journal_volume

20

pub_type

历史文章,杂志文章