
Introduction

Introduction Part 2

Introduction Part 3

1786 Margaret Nicholson

1796 Charles Lamb

1796 William Tuke

1800 James Hadfield

1808 County Asylum Act

1814 Bethlem Hospital

1817 Early Textbook of Forensic Psychiatry

1823 The Gaol Act

1836 R v Pritchard

1843 The M’Naughten Rules for Insanity

1845 Dundrum Hospital

1863 Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum

1923 Maudsley Hospital

1922 The Psychology of the Criminal

1913 Charles Goring a prison medical officer published The English convict: a statistical study

1909 First mention of the idea of an “epileptic personality”.

20th Century – The Development of Research and Policy and birth of Modern Forensic Psychiatry

1899 Broadmoor Full

1895 The Gladstone Committee Report

1887 Criminal Lunatics Act

1878 Lombroso publishes L’uomo Delinquent (Delinquent Man)

1874 Henry Maudsley published “Responsibility in Mental Disease”

1865 Criminal Lunatics Department established in Perth prison.

Introduction

Introduction Part 2

Introduction Part 3

1786 Margaret Nicholson

1796 Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb called a doctor for his sister Mary Lamb. She had recovered from an episode of illness, but was relapsing. The following day, she chased her assistant with a knife and killed her mother who had tried to intervene. She was imediately taken to a private hospital and, under order of the coroner and jury, ‘liberated on security that she be properly treated as a lunatic’. She made a further recovery and, with her brother, wrote and published stories from Shakespeare that are still read today.
Few received such sensitive or successful treatment, but this was the beginning of a period of change.
1796 William Tuke

1800 James Hadfield

1808 County Asylum Act

1814 Bethlem Hospital

1817 Early Textbook of Forensic Psychiatry

1823 The Gaol Act

1836 R v Pritchard

1843 The M’Naughten Rules for Insanity

1845 Dundrum Hospital

1863 Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum

1923 Maudsley Hospital

1922 The Psychology of the Criminal

1913 Charles Goring a prison medical officer published The English convict: a statistical study

1909 First mention of the idea of an “epileptic personality”.

20th Century – The Development of Research and Policy and birth of Modern Forensic Psychiatry

1899 Broadmoor Full

1895 The Gladstone Committee Report

1887 Criminal Lunatics Act

1878 Lombroso publishes L’uomo Delinquent (Delinquent Man)

1874 Henry Maudsley published “Responsibility in Mental Disease”
