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The Treatment of the Mentally Deranged in the Greek
14 , : 1887-1903. Kingdom of the Nineteenth Century
, 20 (1998), Vangelis Karamanolakis
. 45-66.
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In the early nineteenth century the individuals suffering
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from phychic disorders were usually confined either in
17 1888, their family environment, in monasteries or in communal
1889, . 18 hospitals. Soon after the foundation of the modern Greek
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state, the debate on the treatment of the insane led in
. 1862 to the resolution of the first relevant law on the insti-
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tution of a state mental hospital, a law which however re-
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19 . , . O - mained inactive until 1864. It was then that the annexation
, O 78/6 of the Ionian Islands endowed the Grek state with two lu-
( 1987), . 54-55. natic asylums, those of Corfu and Kephallonia, that had
20 . Andrew Scull, A Social History of Afflictions. Madness and Society in Britain
been founded in 1840.
1700-1900, 1993. . 293-303.
In 1880 the Chian merchant Zorzis Dromokaitis bequethed
a considerable amount of money for the foundation of a
O mental hospital in Athens. However, the new perspective
OO O, I. , - the Dromokaiteion Hospital offered, that of the confinement
, , A 1991. and scientific treatment of the lunatics, was met with suspi-
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cion, due to the already existing prejudices and the nega-
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tive tradition such an institution had in Western Europe. As
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78/6 ( 1987), . 54-55. tific criteria. Nevertheless, the reinforcement of the charita-
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ble character of Dromokaiteion in the following years led to
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the gradual increase of destitute patients and to the pro-
, 2000, . 193-202. gressive transformation of the hospital to an asylum.