Health, Sports & Psychology
Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing
...Accounts suggest that patients benefited from the anticipation of these social engagements and that events were used to reward good behaviour. Music was also used to break up the monotony of asylum life. For example, at one private asylum, Dr Alfred Wood, wrote: These entertainments involved a great amount of trouble in their preparation and arrangement and, I may add,...
