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The micro-interactions between patients and staff were a focal point of the book, which illuminated in a unique and perceptive way the social context created by St Elizabeth’s, a 7000-bed psychiatric hospital in Washington DC, and its effects on patient experience and behaviour.
This paper explores treatment strategies, the impact of gender on the perception of mental patients, punishment and resistance in an asylum setting, and the impacts of institutionalization through an examination of the Lunatic Hospital Book, a partial account of patient care, for the period 1799-1801.
Extensive institutionalisation of people with mental disorders has a brief history lasting just 150 years. Yet asylums feature prominently in modern perceptions of psychiatry’s development, on a mental map drawn in sharp contrasts
Asylums is only one of a number of books that appeared in the 1950s and 1960s that studied those characteristics of mental hospitals that impinged upon patients and affected the course of their illness. Works by Stanton and Schwartz (1954), Belknap (1956), Dunham and Weinberg (1960), Strauss et al. (1964), and
1 Απρ 2020 · The closure of Victorian asylums removed a layer of secure care that might have been open to offenders with mental disorders as a substitute for prison, which they were in Victorian times and after, when forensic mental health patients ceased to be anomalies in both justice and health care.
Erving Goffman’s “Asylums” is a key text in the development of contemporary, community-orientated mental health practice. It has survived as a trenchant critique of the asylum as total ...
1 Ιαν 2020 · Download book EPUB. Why Talk About Madness? Catharine Coleborne. Part of the book series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective ( (MHHP)) 721 Accesses. Abstract. This chapter takes up the question of the patient case record and its uses by historians.
