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John Thomas Perceval (14 February 1803 – 28 February 1876) was a British army officer who was confined in lunatic asylums for three years and spent the rest of his life campaigning for reform of the lunacy laws and for better treatment of asylum inmates.
16 de may. de 2008 · His father Spencer Perceval was killed by John Bellingham in the House of Commons on 11 May 1812. He is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated. Bellingham was executed a week later. John Thomas was aged nine at the time.
31 de mar. de 2019 · The investigation conducted here focuses on two very remarkable asylum memoirs – one published in 1838, the other in 1840 – by John Perceval, a self-proclaimed ‘insane and nervous patient’.
- David Trotter
- 2019
16 de may. de 2024 · John Thomas Perceval (1803–1876) was the fifth of 12 children of Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the UK. His memoirs of his admission and treatment for mental illness, first published in 1838 and in a revised version in 1840, gave an accurate and compelling account of his psychopathology as well as of the often abusive and ...
History of Recovery Movement. The concept of recovery can be traced back as far as 1830, when John Perceval, son of one of England’s prime ministers, wrote of his personal recovery from the psychosis that he experienced from 1830 until 1832, a recovery that he obtained despite the “treatment” he received from the “lunatic” doctors who ...
John Thomas Perceval (1803–1876) Patient and Reformer. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 August 2012. Richard Hunter and. Ida Macalpine. Article. Metrics. Save PDF.
From Perceval's Narrative - Volume 16 Issue 1. Tie an active limbed, active minded, actively imagining young man in bed, hand and foot, for a fortnight, drench him with medicines, slops, clysters; when reduced to the extreme of nervous debility, and his derangement is successfully confirmed, manacle him down for twenty-four hours in the cabin of a ship; then for a whole year shut him up from ...
