Dr. Francis T. Stribling
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (553 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1413449816 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Dr. Then, every institution for the insane in the South, and all but a very few in the remainder of the country, were little more than penitentiaries. The daily lives of slave servants are described and also the different approaches taken by Stribling and Galt provide for insane free blacks and insane slaves. Stribling and Dorothea Dix from 1849 until 1860 describe a deep and intimate friendship. Stribling's efforts to admit only patients who could be cured resulted in a bitter dispute in the early 1840s between him and Dr. Galt was head of Eastern State Hospital, the first institution in the Colonies built for the treatment of the insane. During the Civil War Stribling managed to provide for his patients even after Sheridan's troops sacked his hospital. Dr. Stribling possessed an uncommon and profound knowledge of human nature, and the importance of human relationships. He believed that the drives, interests, and needs of the insane were the same as those of others, and that satisfaction of them through human relationships, would help restore their reason." Stribling recognized that insanity was a disease that if treated early, was curable. After the war, Stribing was successful after he petitioned Congress to keep his job. Randolph's son had been a patient at Western State. John Minson. Stribling was only twenty-six years old in 1836 when he beca
"Western State" according to Soames. This book is interesting and informative, but the lack of good editing might be distracting to some readers.