Work, Psychiatry and Society, C. 1750-2015
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2016
Online ISBN:
9781526104465
Print ISBN:
9780719097690
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Occupation in the late nineteenth-century asylum Occupation in the late nineteenth-century asylum
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Moral treatment and the creation of ‘useful members of society’ Moral treatment and the creation of ‘useful members of society’
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Malingering: The context of shifting attitudes towards the failure to work Malingering: The context of shifting attitudes towards the failure to work
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Self-mutilation and ‘motiveless malingering’ in psychiatry Self-mutilation and ‘motiveless malingering’ in psychiatry
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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Chapter
13 Useful members of society or motiveless malingerers? Occupation and malingering in British asylum psychiatry, 1870–1914
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Pages
277–297
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Published:January 2016
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Chaney, Sarah, 'Useful members of society or motiveless malingerers? Occupation and malingering in British asylum psychiatry, 1870–1914', in Ernst Waltraud (ed.), Work, Psychiatry and Society, C. 1750-2015 (Manchester , 2016; online edn, Manchester Scholarship Online, 19 May 2016), https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719097690.003.0013, accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
This chapter explores the value placed on occupation as a measure of individual worth at the turn of the twentieth century. Within the asylum, providing residents with daily tasks was designed to counter introspection, while aiding the economic functioning of the institution with free labour. Yet this model also aimed to create ‘useful members of society’. This chapter argues that we can only understand Victorian and Edwardian models of work-based therapy in relation to workmen’s compensation and the threat of so-called malingering and outside the asylum.
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