La relación médico-paciente en el Manicomio de La Castañeda entre 1910-1920, tiempos de revolución.

This text aims to show the specific forms that define the relation between doctors and patients, at the mental asylum of La Castaneda in Mexico City (1910-1968), during its first decade of functioning which coincides with the Mexican Revolution. This work begins with a brief presentation of the hospital’s foundation, and the ways how revolutionary events affected the life at the interior of the asylum. The characteristics of the archival material are analyzed to establish the links between doctors and patients, in which abandon and seduction were predominant, being the latter factor the field in which the in-appropriate and the im-pertinence took place.