Author(s): Adél MAGYAR

Title: A PSZICHIÁTRIAI BETEGEKRŐL ÉS AZ ÉRTELMI FOGYATÉKOS SZEMÉLYEKRŐL ALKOTOTT KÉP VÁLTOZÁSAI A 19. SZÁZADI MAGYARORSZÁGON

Source: 11th International Conference of J. Selye University. Pedagogical Sections. Conference Proceedings

ISBN: 978-80-8122-333-4

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36007/3334.2019.107-116

Publisher: J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia

PY, pages: 2019, 107-116

Published on-line: 2019

Language: hu

Abstract: During the 19th century a particular duality appeared in the professional discourse about mental illness and idiocy: On the one hand people with mental health problems have become more and more "visible" in the 19th century in the developing western societies and cultures. The value of their status - as a result of the positive acceptance of their somatic disease, their "sick role" - increased. Mental illness was beleived to be curable with medico-pedagogical methods. On the other hand, the mentally disabled children and adults - in the first half of the 19th century – remained almost completely "invisible". They remained hidden in their families, villages, communities, in the care institutions or healing asylums. In Hungary, European processes have been delayed in the field of psychiatry and the treatment of intellectual disability. In our study, we present the beginnings of this process in the 19th century based on contemporary documents.

Keywords: special education history, disability history, mental illness, mental disability, cretinism

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