Hostname: page-component-669899f699-8p65j Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-05-06T00:19:31.458Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

John Conolly (1794–1866): the Return of the Wanderer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Henry R. Rollin
Henry R. Rollin*
Affiliation:
Horton Hospital, Epsom
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The name of John Conolly, writes his obituarist in the Journal of Mental Science [12 (1866): 146] “liveth for ever more.” As a reformer he will go down in history as one of the most distinguished men of his age, to be mentioned in the same breath, say, as John Howard, Thomas Clarkson and Lord Shaftesbury. As a psychiatrist he will be identified for all time with the non-restraint system after its translation from France to England. “There is no asylum in the world,” he opined, “in which all mechanical restraints may not be abolished not only with safety, but with incalculable advantage.”

Type
The College
Information
Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , February 1988 , pp. 73
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BY
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.