Mental Illness -- Treatment -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Coffin Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-029
Abstract
The Coffin family were Quakers of Wayne County, Indiana. Elijah Coffin was born in 1793 in Guilford County, N.C., the son of Bethuel and Hannah Dicks Coffin. His son and daughter-in-law, Charles F. and Rhoda M. Coffin were active in the peace movement, prison reform, reform of the treatment of the insane, and the temperance movement. Father and son both served as Clerk of Indiana Yearly Meeting. The collection contains family correspondence, journals, business papers, and miscellaneous...
Dates:
1797-1932
Lilly Neil case history
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-801-11-013
Abstract
Materials related to the care and treatment of Lilly Neil, a patient at several hospitals with mental health programs.
Dates:
1901 - 1909
Edward Charles Spitzka scrapbook on insanity and psychiatry
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-801-04-003
Abstract
A scrapbook of newspaper, magazine, and medical journal clippings from 1895 to 1903 that describe the research, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness, or “insanity,” compiled by Edward Charles Spitzka.
Dates:
1895-1903
