Benjamin Rush's Moral Treatments
Author: Ronald J. Comer
Princeton University
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Although Benjamin Rush, widely considered the father of American Psychiatry, came to believe in and practice moral treatment in the early 1800s, many of his prior treatments reflected contemporary medical thought and would be judged quite harshly by today’s standards. A case in point was his famous “restraint chair,” presented in this video.
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