The Treatment of the Insane without Mechanical Restraints (Paperback)

1. The last days of the old methods of treatment; 2. The first days of the new or non-restraint system; 3. The new system in private asylums; 4. Abolition of mechanical restraints at Hanwell in 1839; 5. Gradual adoption of the non-restraint system in the large asylums of England, after 1839; 6. Progress of the new system on the continent; Conclusion.