The influence of moral therapy on the landscape design of lunatic asylums built in the nineteenth century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8364137 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rory Du Plessis (0000-0001-8907-9891, Department of Visual Arts at the University of Pretoria., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 86 |
| Pages | 19-38 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | de arte (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-3389 • E-ISSN: 2471-4100 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00043389.2012.11877170 |
| OpenAlex | W321342653 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 34 |
There is a need to diminish the dominance of the panopticon as a model for investigating the design of nineteenth-century lunatic asylums. In particular, this need is justified by a number of theorists who argue that the ‘panopticon principles’ of observation and seclusion were not significant tenets of asylum design and visual culture. Instead, there was an emphasis on deliberately overcoming such aspects in favour of bringing patients together in large open spaces and using non-prison like architecture. Such ideals and design features are hallmarks of moral therapy that postulate the curative potential of the asylum through the placement of patients in a carefully designed environment. Consequently, the landscaping of an asylum's external environment was paramount in ensuring therapeutic possibilities. This importance was expressed through a number of design features that nearly all asylum landscapes contained. The author aims primarily to identify such design features by discussing renowned international exemplars of moral therapy. Following from this identification, a secondary aim is to examine the influence of moral therapy in several South African asylums
Aesthetics · Art · Criminology · Dominance (genetics) · Environmental ethics · Irrational number · Lunatic · Panopticon · Political science · Prison · Psychiatry · Seclusion · Sociology · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Law · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology
Curing their ills
The Power of geography
Madness, morality, and medicine
Asylum on the Hill
The Confinement of the Insane
A Space of Their Own
The discovery of the asylum
Can the Clinical Subject Speak
Discipline and Punish
The Art of Asylum-Keeping
Cheerful prospects and tranquil restoration
Madness, race and moral treatment
‘Good in all respects’
The Picturesque at Brislington House, Bristol
Moral architecture
An English asylum in Africa
IV. Lost Lives
The Most Solitary of Afflictions
The black insane in the Cape, 1891-1920
Race, science and medicine, 1700-1960
The post-panoptic society? Reassessing Foucault in surveillance studies
Madness and Civilization
African Apocalypse
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |