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The Epsom Cluster
The story of the five psychiatric hospitals built together in Epsom a century ago to form the largest such cluster in the world.
The Story of Nursing in British Mental Hospitals
From their beginnings as the asylum attendants of the 19th century, mental health nurses have come a long way. This comprehensive volume is the first book in over twenty years to explore the history of mental health nursing, and during this period the landscape has transformed as the large institutions have been replaced by services in the community. McCrae and Nolan examine how the role of mental health nursing has evolved in a social and professional context, brought to life by an abundance of anecdotal accounts. Moving from the early nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century, the book’s nine chronologically-ordered chapters follow the development from untrained attendants in the pa...
A History of London County Lunatic Asylums & Mental Hospitals
From the Middle-Ages onwards, London’s notorious Bedlam lunatic hospital saw the city’s ‘mad’ locked away in dank cells, neglected and abused and without any real cure and little comfort. The unprecedented growth of the metropolis after the Industrial Revolution saw a perceived ‘epidemic’ of madness take hold, with ‘county asylums’ seen by those in power as the most humane or cost-effective way to offer the mass confinement and treatment believed necessary. The county of Middlesex – to which London once belonged – would build and open three huge county asylums from 1831, and when London became its own county in 1889 it would adopt all three and go on to build or run anoth...
Madness in its Place
This fascinating study presents a unique history of psychiatry in the twentieth century. It brings together the memories and narratives of over sixty patients and workers who lived, or were employed, in Severalls Psychiatric Hospital, Essex, UK. Personal accounts are contextualised both in relation to wider developments and issues in twentieth-century mental health, and in relation to policies and changes in the hospital itself. Organised around the theme of space and place, and drawing upon both quantitative and qualitative material, chapters deal with key areas such as gender divisions, power relations, patterns of admission and discharge, treatments, and the daily lives and routines of patients and nurses of both sexes.
Community Mental Health Programs in England
The advent of socialized medicine in Great Britain after World War II brought the government into the doctor-patient relationship as an official third party. This development encouraged experimentation on a national scale with many therapeutic techniques which resulted in innovative approaches to the care and management of mental patients. This book is a survey, through the eyes of an experienced American psychiatrist-educator- administrator, of community mental health services in England. It is based on a study which he made during a three-month visit to the Tavistock Institute, London, in 1969, and a subsequent visit in 1971. Dr. Norman Rosenzweig describes the background and context of me...
