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 Psychiatryjournal_title
History of psychiatryauthors
Hickman Cdoi
10.1177/0957154X08338335subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-12-01 00:00:00pages
425-41issue
80 Pt 4eissn
0957-154Xjournal_volume
20pub_type
历史文章,杂志文章