Abstract
The in-house rules at lunatic asylum in France allowed them to issue necessity money (tokens and gift vouchers) as payment for work performed in the hospital therapeutic workshops. The Psychiatric Hospital in Cadillac, France, was thus able to issue its own private money (aluminium coins and notes marked in French francs) for the benefit of inmates working in the hospital from 1949 to 1957, i.e. a period of eight years. This internal and very specific form of retribution for inmates’work, which allowed them to purchase goods at the hospital canteen, seems to have been extremely rare in the history of French psychiatry.
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