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The Abolition of Seclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

T. O. Wood*
Affiliation:
Dunston Lodge Asylum, Psychological Medicine in Durham University

Extract

I have ventured to undertake the responsibility of bringing this important subject forward, in the hope that any little I can dp may go some way towards abolishing a line of treat ment which I consider to be unsatisfactory in its results and demoralising in its tendencies. Unsatisfactory in its results by its failing to raise the percentage of the recoveries of our patients, and in its being of no real benefit to those so treated; and demoralising in its tendencies by ever being before the attendants as a tempting means by which they may easily get rid of a troublesome patient to gratify their own idle propensities.

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Part 1.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1872 

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