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Gollaher, David L. "Dorothea Lynde Dix and the Frontiers of Madness in America," Harvard University, December 1990. (11, 20, 22)
This study explores the origins and development of Dix’s unique roles in American politics and in the emerging psychiatric profession. Her own breakdown in her thirties and recovery in England was the experiential framework for her interest in insanity. Analysis of Dix’s published writings and private papers reveals that the intellectual sources of her career were the methods and moral outlook of English lunacy reform, particularly the idea of strong state intervention in social welfare. Both the moral force and the institutional failings produced by her crusade derived much from her effort to transplant English institutions onto American society.
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