Deinstitutionalisation and After: Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World

ISBN-13: 9783319453590 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 297 str.

Despo Kritsotaki; Vicky Long; Matthew Smith

Opis

The book relates the history of post-war psychiatry, focusing on deinstitutionalisation, namely the shift from asylum to community in the second part of the twentieth century.After the Second World War, psychiatry and mental health care were reshaped by deinstitutionalisation.

Spis treści

Introduction

Despo Kritsotaki, Vicky Long and Matthew Smith, Deinstitutionalisation and the Pathways of Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World

Part I. Understanding deinstitutionalisation: culture, ideology and historiography

Chapter 1. John Burnham, Deinstitutionalisation and the great sociocultural shift to consumer culture

Chapter 2. Alexander Dunst, ‘All the Fits That’s News to Print’: Deinstitutionalisation and Anti-Psychiatric Movement Magazines in the United States, 1970-1986

Chapter 3. Megan Davies and Erika Dyck with Leslie Baker, Lanny Beckman, Geertje Boschma, Chris Dooley, Kathleen Kendall, Eugene LeBlanc, Robert Menzies, Marina Morrow, Diane Purvey, Nérée St-Amand, Marie-Claude Thifault, Jayne Whyte, Victor Willis, After the Asylum in Canada: Surviving Deinstitutionalisation and Revising History

Part II. Designing and implementing psychiatric reform: experiments, opportunities and oppositions

Chapter 4. Christof Beyer, ‘Islands of reform’. Early transformation of the mental health service in Lower Saxony, Germany in the 1960s

Chapter 5. Nicolas Henckes, French deinstitutionalisation or the irony of success. Psychiatrists, the State and the transformation of the French psychiatric system, 1945-2010

Chapter 6. Valerie Harrington, Integration in a divided world: Salford Community Mental Health Services 1948-1974

Chapter 7. Despo Kritsotaki, Initiating deinstitutionalisation: Early attempts of mental health care reform in Greece, 1950s-1970s

Part III. New conceptualisations of therapy and space

Chapter 8. John Stewart, Child Guidance and Deinstitutionalisation in Post-War Britain

Chapter 9. Cheryl McGeachan “Do you have a frog to guide you?”: Exploring the ‘asylum’ spaces of R.D. Laing

Part IV. After Deinstitutionalisation: experiences, challenges and legacies

Chapter 10. Elena Trivelli, The Basaglian Legacy in Italian Psychiatry: Remembering, Myth-making, and Crystallising

Chapter 11. Howard Padwa, Marcia Meldrum, Jack R. Friedman and Joel T. Braslow, A mental health system in recovery. The era of deinstitutionalisation in California

Chapter 12. Roslyn Burge, Callan Park in transition

O autorze

Despo Kritsotaki is a historian of mental health and healthcare in twentieth-century Greece.

Vicky Long is Senior Lecturer in History at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.

Matthew Smith is Professor of Health History at the University of Strathclyde, UK.

Blurb

The book relates the history of post-war psychiatry, focusing on deinstitutionalisation, namely the shift from asylum to community in the second part of the twentieth century.

After the Second World War, psychiatry and mental health care were reshaped by deinstitutionalisation. But what exactly was involved in this process? What were the origins of deinstitutionalisation and what did it mean to those who experienced it? What were the ramifications, both positive and negative, of such a fundamental shift in psychiatric care? Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World: Deinstitutionalisation and After seeks to answer these questions by exploring this momentous change in mental health care from 1945 to the present in a wide range of geographical settings. The book articulates a nuanced account of the history of deinstitutionalisation, highlighting the constraints and inconsistencies inherent in treating the mentally ill outside of the asylum, while seeking to inform current debates about how to help the most vulnerable members of society.