Although he had no formal training in psychiatry, is famous for liberating his Quaker friends from asylums and sending them to the York Retreat, a naturalistic refuge founded in 1796. A half century...

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Extracted text: Although he had no formal training in psychiatry, is famous for liberating his Quaker friends from asylums and sending them to the York Retreat, a naturalistic refuge founded in 1796. A half century later, traveled New England and Europe studying the disturbing living conditions of the insane poor and was responsible for the founding of several nineteenth-century psychiatric hospitals. O Franz Anton Mesmer; Johann Reil O Vincenzo Chiarugi; Jean Itard O William Tuke; Dorothea Dix O Phillipe Pinel; Benjamin Rush