Cottle's Bristol Album, ‘Evening’ and the ‘Insane Man at Dr Fox's’

Paul Cheshire

doi:10.3366/rom.2017.0303

Cottle's Bristol Album, ‘Evening’ and the ‘Insane Man at Dr Fox's’

Romanticism ◽

10.3366/rom.2017.0303 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 15-26

Author(s):

Paul Cheshire

Keyword(s):

Mentally Ill ◽

Medical Practitioner ◽

Leading Role ◽

Circle Of Friends ◽

Edward Long

Joseph Cottle started his Bristol Album in 1795, recognizing the promise of his new circle of friends. Among those who contributed poems to this album were Southey, Coleridge, Wordsworth, William Gilbert, Dr Beddoes, and the anonymous author of a poem ‘Evening’, described in the album as ‘Written by an Insane Man at Dr Fox's’. ‘Evening’ appears in the album immediately before a contribution in Coleridge's hand, and it has a number of verbal parallels with ‘The Eolian Harp’, which Coleridge was to start two months later. Dr Edward Long Fox, who in 1795 played a leading role in Bristol's radical community, was a medical practitioner who treated the mentally ill. This paper looks at how the poem was transmitted from the privacy of Fox's asylum to the pages of Cottle's album, and assesses its significance for that early Romantic writing circle.

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‘In Dublin's Fair City’: The Mentally Ill of ‘No Fixed Abode’

Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists ◽

10.1192/pb.8.10.187 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 8 (10) ◽

pp. 187-190 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Joe Fernandez

Keyword(s):

Mentally Ill ◽

Community Care ◽

Medical Practitioner ◽

Hospital Staff ◽

Catchment Areas ◽

The City

In 1977 a number of considerations prompted a review of the facilities for the mentally ill of ‘no fixed abode’ in St Brendan's Hospital, Dublin. At that time the hospital had three clinical teams who serviced three geographically distinct catchment areas within the city and attended to the needs of patients with ‘no fixed abode’ on a rotational basis. There were complaints from community care agencies concerned with the care of the homeless which alleged that patients were discharged without adequate preparation or follow-up. However, this view was not shared by hospital staff, who instanced occasions when patients sought help in what seemed to be a psychiatric or social emergency, and then abused the service by discharging themselves shortly afterwards. The truth perhaps lay somewhere in between. Another complaint was that no single medical practitioner was clearly responsible for these disadvantaged individuals, thereby making it difficult for community care agencies to liaise with the hospital staff.

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Attitude Towards Mental Illness Among Medical Students And Interns of a Medical College

Journal of Nepal Medical Association ◽

10.31729/jnma.3716 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 56 (213) ◽

pp. 837-841 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Astha Prasai ◽

Shubash Chandra Sharma ◽

Rika Rijal ◽

Shreeyanta K.C

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Medical Students ◽

Attitude Change ◽

Mentally Ill ◽

Positive Attitude ◽

Interpersonal Relationship ◽

Medical Practitioner ◽

Medical Illness ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Medical College

Introduction: Mental health and physical health are interconnected. Attitude of medical professionals towards mentally ill affects the quality of care the patient receives. Today’s medical students are tomorrow’s medical practitioner. We conducted a study in a teaching hospital to assess the attitude towards mental illness among medical students and interns. Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was performed in 265 students in Kathmandu Medical College in August, 2017. Opinion about Mental Illness (OMI) questionnaire developed by Cohen and Struening was used. Results: Of the total participants, 49.8%(132) were male and 50.2%(133) were female. Medical students were more authoritarian, more benevolent and believed that mental illness is like any other medical illness. They showed neutral attitude in terms of social restriction of mentally ill and interpersonal relationship as a cause of mental illness. Conclusions: Positive attitude was seen only in terms of benevolence and mental hygiene ideology. Effective teaching and training programs is necessary to bring in positive attitude change towards mentally ill among medical students.

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Characterization of RF Sputtered ZnO Piezoelectric Films Using Transmission Electron Microscope

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100114050 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 33 ◽

pp. 86-87

Author(s):

Kemining W. Yeh ◽

Richard S. Muller ◽

Wei-Kuo Wu ◽

Jack Washburn

Keyword(s):

Integrated Circuit ◽

Acoustic Waves ◽

New Technology ◽

Surface Acoustic Waves ◽

Electromechanical Properties ◽

Leading Role ◽

Saw Devices ◽

Transmission Electron ◽

High Degree

Considerable and continuing interest has been shown in the thin film transducer fabrication for surface acoustic waves (SAW) in the past few years. Due to the high degree of miniaturization, compatibility with silicon integrated circuit technology, simplicity and ease of design, this new technology has played an important role in the design of new devices for communications and signal processing. Among the commonly used piezoelectric thin films, ZnO generally yields superior electromechanical properties and is expected to play a leading role in the development of SAW devices.

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Goal Attainment and Treatment Compliance in a Cognitive-Behavioral Telephone Intervention for Family Caregivers of Persons with Dementia

GeroPsych ◽

10.1024/1662-9647/a000043 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 115-125 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Gabriele Wilz ◽

Denise Schinköthe ◽

Renate Soellner

Keyword(s):

Family Caregivers ◽

Mentally Ill ◽

Goal Attainment ◽

Outcome Measurement ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Treatment Success ◽

Treatment Compliance ◽

Control Group ◽

Telephone Intervention ◽

Effective Interventions

Introduction: The evaluation of effective interventions is still needed to prevent family caregivers of persons with dementia from becoming physically or mentally ill. However, in most existing intervention studies, primary outcomes are not well matched to the treatment goals. Method: A randomized controlled trial (N = 229) was conducted to compare a treatment group (CBT), a treated control group, and an untreated control group. In theses analyses we focused on the primary outcome measurement (GAS) as a perceived treatment success as well as treatment compliance and participants’ evaluation. Results: Results showed that 30.1% achieved complete goal attainment, 39.8% partial goal attainment, and 24.1% declared no change (overachievement 2.4%; deterioration 3.6%). Discussion: The intervention can be considered to have been successful.

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The Mental Health and Social Exclusion European Network

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027//1016-9040.5.3.245 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 245-251 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Luigi Leonori ◽

Manuel Muñoz ◽

Carmelo Vázquez ◽

José J. Vázquez ◽

Mary Fe Bravo ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

European Union ◽

Social Exclusion ◽

Mentally Ill ◽

Outcome Evaluation ◽

World Federation ◽

The European Union ◽

Capital Cities ◽

Homeless Mentally Ill ◽

The Impact

This report concerns the activities developed by the Mental Health and Social Exclusion (MHSE) Network, an initiative supported by the Mental Health Europe (World Federation of Mental Health). We report some data from the preliminary survey done in five capital cities of the European Union (Madrid, Copenhagen, Brussels, Lisbon, and Rome). The main aim of this survey was to investigate, from a mostly qualitative point of view, the causal and supportive factors implicated in the situation of the homeless mentally ill in Europe. The results point out the familial and childhood roots of homelessness, the perceived causes of the situation, the relationships with the support services, and the expectations of future of the homeless mentally ill. The analysis of results has helped to identify the different variables implicated in the social rupture process that influences homelessness in major European cities. The results were used as the basis for the design of a more ambitious current research project about the impact of the medical and psychosocial interventions in the homeless. This project is being developed in 10 capital cities of the European Union with a focus on the program and outcome evaluation of the health and psychosocial services for the disadvantaged.

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