Record #:

24487

Author(s):

Faust, Richard A.

Abstract:

Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) worked to help the mentally ill and helped create the first mental asylums in America. She went to North Carolina in 1848 to change attitudes concerning mental illness and found mental institutions there.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 45 Issue 9, February 1978, p25-27, il, por

Subject(s):

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887; Mental illness; Mental hospitals; Mentally ill--Care of