Charland Louis C
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7.
Hist Psychiatry. 2007 Mar;18(1):61-80. doi: 10.1177/0957154X07070320.
The York Retreat is famous in the history of nineteenth-century psychiatry because of its association with moral treatment. Although there exists a substantial historical literature on the evolution of moral treatment at the Retreat, several interpretive problems continue to obscure its unique therapeutic legacy. The nature of moral treatment as practised at the Retreat will be clarified and discussed in a historical perspective. It will be argued that moral treatment at the Retreat was primarily a matter of affective conditioning guided by 'benevolent theory'.
约克疗养院在19世纪精神病学史上因与道德治疗相关联而闻名。尽管关于该疗养院道德治疗的演变存在大量历史文献，但仍有几个解释性问题继续掩盖其独特的治疗遗产。本文将从历史角度阐明并讨论该疗养院所实行的道德治疗的本质。本文认为，该疗养院的道德治疗主要是一个由“仁爱理论”指导的情感调节问题。
