John Conolly

Standard Name: Conolly, John

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1830: Physician John Conolly popularized the concept...

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1830

Physician John Conolly popularized the concept of moral management, in his Inquiry Concerning the Indications of Insanity.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
33, 83, 264n28

1 June 1839: John Conolly became the resident physician...

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1 June 1839

John Conolly became the resident physician at Hanwell Lunatic Asylum ; he proved that a large mental institution could be managed without physical discipline.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
44-6
Bynum, William F. “Rationales for Therapy in British Psychiatry, 1780-1835”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 35-57.
51-2

By 18 September 1847: John Conolly published The Construction and...

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By 18 September 1847

John Conolly published The Construction and Government of Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane, which likened the asylum to a home with a benevolent superintendent father.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
28, 33-5, 84, 255
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1038 (1847): 973

1856: In Treatment of the Insane Without Mechanical...

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1856

In Treatment of the Insane Without Mechanical Restraints, physician John Conolly dramatically portrayed the advantages of state incarceration for mentally unstable women.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
68
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
66, 68, 79
Elaine Showalter draws the connection between lunacy debates...

1859: The public was shocked to hear that eminent...

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1859

The public was shocked to hear that eminent physician and psychiatrist John Conolly had operated on a kickback system, receiving a 15% commission for each person he certified to confinement at Moorcroft House .
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
48

After March 1866: On the death of prominent Victorian psychiatrist...

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After March 1866

On the death of prominent Victorian psychiatrist John Conolly , his son-in-law and leading Darwinist psychiatrist Henry Maudsley wrote a scathing official memoir.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
116-17
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
116

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