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In an era when woman's work centered primarily on hearth and home. Dorothea Lynde Dix won the respect of men and women alike through her quiet determination and selfless dedication to help those imprisoned in troubled minds. Freud was just a boy during the years Dix traveled across the United States, later to Europe and Japan, to found scores of hospitals for the indigent insane. Weakened by chronic tuberculosis, Dix doggedly pursued her cause. During the Civil War, she put her work for the mentally ill on hold to supervise nurses who treated wounded soldiers. Despite her ill health, Dix lived to be 85, dying in 1887 in the first hospital she had founded, in Trenton, N.J. Schlaifer (coauthor of Action for Mental Health ) and Freeman ( Fight Against Fears ) tell Dix's story in a matter-of-fact, somewhat plodding manner, using letters to illustrate the profound effect she had on her friends and fellow citizens. The last chapter attempts to analyze the psychodynamic forces impelling Dix to forgo marriage and motherhood and help outcasts. Although interesting, it seems like an afterthought. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
A failed attempt to arouse interest in the work of Dorothea Dix, who, in the 19th century, devoted her considerable talents to establishing hospitals for the needy insane. Schlaifer, a longtime advocate of improved treatment of the mentally ill, and prolific science-writer Freeman (coauthor, Our Wish to Kill, p. 312, etc.) have produced a dull biography of a woman who must have been anything but dull. They rely heavily on an 1891 biography of Dix by Francis Tiffany, which may account in part for the stilted and often oddly archaic tone of the present volume (``Dorothea would occupy her hospital home for five years as she suffered a lasting exhaustion and the pain of the steadily advancing disease of which she died--ossification of the lining membranes of the arteries''). Less explicable is the disjointedness of the narrative and why, although the subtitle dubs Dix a Civil War heroine, less than a half-dozen pages are devoted to her Civil War activities. Throughout her life, Dix shrank from publicity, and she wrote no memoirs; indeed, her first biographer commented that ``no real information is to be had about her.'' Schlaifer and Freeman fail to change this. In a final chapter, they do attempt to explain Dix's lifelong concern with helping the mentally disturbed by linking it to her own unhappy childhood--a psychoanalytic leap that might well have been strongly resented by Dix. A plodding biography of a remarkable woman.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Dorothea Dix's life is the stuff of legends. Born into a fairly wealthy family but with unstable parents, Dorothy moved in with her grandparents at age 12, started a school for young women on their property in Boston at age 18, and five years later--overworked, rundown--contracted tuberculosis. Told that she had not long to live, she decided to make the most of her time left. A chance visit to a jail changed her life--and the lives of many since. Appalled by the conditions of the jail--a facility for prisoners who were either mentally ill or indigent--Dix set out on a nationwide campaign of prison reform. She championed the rights of the mentally ill; managed to change laws and prison conditions; and raised the consciousnesses of people both in America and Europe. She was also a Civil War hero, supervising nurses and setting up facilities for the sick and the wounded. Although plagued with ill health her entire life, Dix lived to be 85. An excellent portrait of an amazing and energetic woman. ~--Mary Ellen Sullivan
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Dix, the internationally known crusader acclaimed for her efforts to reform care of the mentally ill, deserves far better treatment than that accorded in this simplistic and one-dimensional account. Although Schlaifer and Freeman (coauthor of Our Wish to Kill , LJ 3/15/91) are well known popular writers actively interested in mental health, they are unable to place Dix within the activist and feminist context of her time. Lacking notes or bibliography, their book is uninformed by any of the latest techniques of women's history or biography and seems to be drawn from highly dated materials. Although their admiration for Dix is apparent, little is learned of her as a person, and the attempt to attribute her campaigns to an unhappy childhood are unconvincing. Not recommended.-- Marie Marmo Mul laney, Caldwell Coll., N.J. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.