Samuel Tuke

Psychiatric reformer, born in York, North Yorkshire, N England, UK, the grandson of William Tuke. He acquired in his childhood an intense interest in the York Retreat, the psychiatric hospital founded by his family. His Description of the Retreat (1813) contains a classic account of the principles of ‘moral therapy’, which was the basis of the therapeutic milieu there. Tuke's son, Daniel Hack Tuke (1827–95), became a leading psychiatrist.

Samuel Tuke (July 31, 1784 – October 14, 1857), son of Henry Tuke was born at York, England.

He greatly advanced the cause of the amelioration of the condition of the insane, and devoted himself largely to the York Retreat, the methods of treatment pursued in which he made more widely known by his Description of the Retreat near York, etc.

The Retreat is still active for the population of York and the wider community.

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