Lunatic- a person whose actions and manner are marked by extreme eccentricity or recklessness.
This definition describes the people that Dorothea Dix wanted to help. Before she came into the picture, the mentally-ill would be taken to Asylum's, while there they would live until death. Unfortunately, the mentally-ill were never treated very well; they usually slept in pens, stables, stalls, closets, and cellars. They were also whipped with rods and "beaten to obediance."
Dorothea's actions led to the building of five hospitals and a safe place for the mentally-ill. However, she was not alone in her search for just hospitals. She was accompanied by men such as: Francis Lieber, Samuel Gridley Howem, and Dr. John Galt. " Dr. Galt had many revolutionary ideas about treating the insane, based on his conviction that they had dignity." A few were: Dr. Galt introduced "talk therapy" to the traditional ways of beating, and he started the use of drugs on his patients, and promoting outplacement instead of life-long stays.
After the war of 1812, many people wanted children out of jails and prisons. The reformers demanded for the children to put in Juvenile Detention Centers. This was a huge debate for the U.S. but an even larger one still stood way over the children; was the purpose for punishment or penitence? Louis Dwight came right when America needed him most! He created the Boston Prison Discipline Society and "he spread the Auburn system throughout America's jails and added salvation and Sabbath School to further penitence." The goals of these reformists were the creation of prison libraries, teaching the prisoners how to read and write, seperation of women, and softer punishments.
This definition describes the people that Dorothea Dix wanted to help. Before she came into the picture, the mentally-ill would be taken to Asylum's, while there they would live until death. Unfortunately, the mentally-ill were never treated very well; they usually slept in pens, stables, stalls, closets, and cellars. They were also whipped with rods and "beaten to obediance."
Dorothea's actions led to the building of five hospitals and a safe place for the mentally-ill. However, she was not alone in her search for just hospitals. She was accompanied by men such as: Francis Lieber, Samuel Gridley Howem, and Dr. John Galt. " Dr. Galt had many revolutionary ideas about treating the insane, based on his conviction that they had dignity." A few were: Dr. Galt introduced "talk therapy" to the traditional ways of beating, and he started the use of drugs on his patients, and promoting outplacement instead of life-long stays.
After the war of 1812, many people wanted children out of jails and prisons. The reformers demanded for the children to put in Juvenile Detention Centers. This was a huge debate for the U.S. but an even larger one still stood way over the children; was the purpose for punishment or penitence? Louis Dwight came right when America needed him most! He created the Boston Prison Discipline Society and "he spread the Auburn system throughout America's jails and added salvation and Sabbath School to further penitence." The goals of these reformists were the creation of prison libraries, teaching the prisoners how to read and write, seperation of women, and softer punishments.