David,
This will be very incomplete, but I read a book on the eugenic movement in
North America several months ago. One of the featured psychiatrists was
director at Butler Hospital in Providence, RI early in this century. The
author quoted him as emphasizing occupational therapy as part of the
treatment plan. I had gotten our library to buy it and I don't have the
exact reference handy. Will see if I can find it.
Al
Al L. Cone
Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
North Dakota 701.252.3467 X 2604
http://www.jc.edu/users/faculty/cone
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From: David Likely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 11:19 AM
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Subject: origins of "occupational therapy"?
origins of "occupational therapy"?
I'm editing some stuff by Pinel, who put a depressed
tailor to work "to divert the current of his morbid
thoughts." (It was no good -- the man turned out
to be "absolutely incurable.")
The term "occupational therapy," to my surprise,
isn't listed in the index of any of the dozen or so history
of psych textbooks I have here, and while the local
university library has 15 books with the term in the
title, all were published between 1976 and 1988 and
none of them looks like a history. I'd be surprised if
occupational therapy (perhaps under some other
name?) wasn't an official doctrine of institutions in
the 1800s, if only to get cheap labor. Can any TIPster
make a suggestion or give me a reference, please?
-David
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David G. Likely, Department of Psychology,
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, N. B., E3B 5A3 Canada
History of Psychology:
http://www.unb.ca/web/psychology/likely/psyc4053.htm
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