In-patient Mental Health Care from the Asylum System to the Present Day

Auteur

Andrew Colley is former Senior Lecturer in Special Education, University of East London, UK.

Texte du rabat

With a focus on the progression and dismantlement of the Asylum system, this book examines key issues around the policy and practice of in-patient mental health provision in the UK, making comparisons with similar services in other parts of the world.

Contenu

Prologue: Into the Cage.

Chapter 1: Psychiatric Hospitals in the 19th and 20th century.

Chapter 2: Anti-psychiatry: the impact of Laing, Szasz and others.

Chapter 3: The last years of the asylums: return to Netherne Hospital.

Chapter 4: Exclusion or inclusion: out of the hospitals and into the community.

Chapter 5: In-patient provision in the 21st century: a ward in a house at a provision within a service, near a hospital.

Chapter 6: The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Chapter 7: From Asylums to Care in the Community: what did we gain and what did we lose?

Chapter 8: Addressing stigma and building a better future for in-patient mental health care.

Epilogue: Out of the Cage.