Shining a light on 'what asylums were'

摘要

A psychiatric reformer, Dr William Alexander Francis Browne was a superb asylum superintendent, later to become the Commissioner for Lunacy in Scotland (1857） and president for what today is named the Royal College of Psychiatrists（1866). The early- to mid-19th century was an epoch for psychiatry in Britain, as superintendents like Browne introduced pioneering art and occupational therapy programmes to once barren asylum life.