Health, Sports & Psychology
Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing
...management”, which placed a focus on using employment, diet, surroundings and recreational activities as forms of therapy. When state-run asylums were first introduced in Britain in the early 19th century, music soon became included as a form of moral management to distract patients outside of working hours and keep them occupied. Both music and dance were efficient...