| Comment | > more about 'liberty' and 'freedoms', with many of the Scottish mad being housed in local communities or in 'village asylums', which in combination of housing people in communities was more like a campus with no hard boundaries to the open space.
I think you're confusing a few different things here. In Scotland we pioneered an early form of care called "boarding out", whereby someone who was "mentally ill" would perhaps be boarded out from their home in the city to go and live and work on a rural farm or something like that. Obviously it would depend on the severity of their illness.
From 1904 we adopted the "colony plan" style hospital, first pioneered in Germany. That is to say, any new psychiatric hospitals built after then were in that style (there were three in total). However, there were also some existing hospitals who had started to adopt the idea, and would build additional wards and villas around the grounds as oppose to further extending their main hospital building.
The "open door" policy can also be attributed to us. This is where the hospital doors were kept unlocked (except the acute wards, of course) allowing the patients to move around freely. |
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