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Brattleboro Retreat, the Glossary

The Brattleboro Retreat is a private not-for-profit mental health hospital that provides comprehensive inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient treatment services for children, adolescents, and adults.^[1]

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24 relations: American Revolutionary War, Anna Marsh, Benjamin Rush, Brattleboro, Vermont, Disease, Doctor of Medicine, Electroconvulsive therapy, Eli Todd, LGBT, Moral character, Moral treatment, National Register of Historic Places, National Register of Historic Places listings in Windham County, Vermont, Psychiatric hospital, Quakers, Sin, Social work, Sucker Punch (2011 film), The Howard Stern Show, The Retreat, Vermont, Vermont State Hospital, West River (Vermont), William Tuke.
1834 establishments in Vermont
Hospital buildings completed in 1834
Psychiatric hospitals in Vermont
Residential treatment centers

American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Anna Marsh

Anna Hunt Marsh (c. 1770 – 1834) left $10,000 in her will to establish the Vermont Asylum of the Insane (now the Brattleboro Retreat) in 1834.

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Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Rush (April 19, 1813) was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, educator, and the founder of Dickinson College.

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Brattleboro, Vermont

Brattleboro, originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States, located about north of the Massachusetts state line at the confluence of Vermont's West River and Connecticut.

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Disease

A disease is a particular abnormal condition that adversely affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due to any external injury.

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Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D., from the Latin Medicinae Doctor) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions.

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Electroconvulsive therapy

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or electroshock therapy (EST) is a psychiatric treatment where a generalized seizure (without muscular convulsions) is electrically induced to manage refractory mental disorders.

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Eli Todd

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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Moral character

Moral character or character (derived from) is an analysis of an individual's steady moral qualities.

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Moral treatment

Moral treatment was an approach to mental disorder based on humane psychosocial care or moral discipline that emerged in the 18th century and came to the fore for much of the 19th century, deriving partly from psychiatry or psychology and partly from religious or moral concerns.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Windham County, Vermont

The National Register of Historic Places is a United States federal official list of places and sites considered worthy of preservation.

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Psychiatric hospital

Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, or behavioral health hospitals are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, major depressive disorder, and others.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Sin

In a religious context, sin is a transgression against divine law or a law of the deities.

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Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being.

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Sucker Punch (2011 film)

Sucker Punch is a 2011 American fantasy action film directed by Zack Snyder and co-written by Snyder and Steve Shibuya.

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The Howard Stern Show

The Howard Stern Show is an American radio show hosted by Howard Stern that gained wide recognition when it was nationally syndicated on terrestrial radio from WXRK in New York City, between 1986 and 2005.

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The Retreat

The Retreat, commonly known as the York Retreat, is a place in England for the treatment of people with mental health needs.

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Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Vermont State Hospital

Vermont State Hospital, alternately known as the Vermont State Asylum for the Insane and the Waterbury Asylum, was a mental institution built in 1890 in Waterbury, Vermont to help relieve overcrowding at the privately run Vermont Asylum for the Insane in Brattleboro, Vermont, now known as the Brattleboro Retreat. Brattleboro Retreat and Vermont State Hospital are psychiatric hospitals in Vermont.

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West River (Vermont)

The West River is a tributary of the Connecticut River, about long,U.S. Geological Survey.

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William Tuke

William Tuke (24 March 1732 – 6 December 1822), an English tradesman, philanthropist and Quaker, earned fame for promoting more humane custody and care for people with mental disorders, using what he called gentler methods that came to be known as moral treatment.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brattleboro_Retreat

Also known as Brattleboro Insane Asylum, Vermont Asylum for the Insane.