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Art in Madness: Dr W. A. F. Browne's Collection of Patient Art atCrichton Royal Institution, Dumfries. By Park Maureen. Dumfries and Galloway Health Board. 2010. ISBN: 9781899316694
In July 1838 – a few days after Queen Victoria’s coronation – Dr William A. F. Browne took up his appointment as superintendent of the Crichton Royal Institution at Dumfries. He had recommended himself for the post by his influential lectures on asylum management, which outlined his general approach of ‘moral treatment’ – the secret, he explained, lay in kindness and occupation. As the first patients arrived at Crichton, they found themselves caught up in a whirlwind of activity, including work programmes, educational events, a...