"Like Spiders' Webs for Flies": False Confinement in Nineteenth-Century English Asylums Open Access

Grow, Samantha Marie (2010)

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"Like Spiders' Webs for Flies": False Confinement in Nineteenth-Century English
Asylums
By Samantha M. Grow

Books and newspapers in nineteenth-century England portrayed false confinement as an immense and widespread problem which caused a great deal of concern. Public panics led to preventative legislation, but still the protest groups spoke out. Was false confinement truly a problem, or was it blown out of proportion? If it was not a problem, what does this then say about the "anti-psychiatry" movement in history?

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Preface: Terminology 1

Introduction 2

Chapter One: Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and the Law 7

Chapter Two: False Confinement 14

Chapter Three: In Parliament 22

Chapter Four: "Like Spiders' Webs for Flies" 29

Chapter Five: Psychiatry Today 43

Bibliography 46

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