Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century : In and Beyond the Asylum
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44712
Steven J. Taylor, Alice Brumby, editors.
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Palgrave Macmillan
, c2020.
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This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional walls and consider mental health through the lenses of institutions, policy, nomenclature, art, lived experie…
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- Taylor, Steven J.
- Brumby, Alice
- Responsibility
- Steven J. Taylor, Alice Brumby, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 274 p.) : 5 illus., 4 illus. in color
- Series Title
- Mental health in historical perspective
- ISBN
- 9783030272753
- 9783030272746 (Print ed.)
- 9783030272760 (Print ed.)
- 9783030272777 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Mental Health Services - history
- Psychiatry - history
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Social history
- History, Modern
- Medicine—History
- Psychiatry
- Abstract
- This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional walls and consider mental health through the lenses of institutions, policy, nomenclature, art, lived experience, and popular culture. The book adopts an international scope covering the historical experiences of Britain, Ireland, and North America. In accordance with this broad approach, contributions to the volume span academic fields such as history, arts, literary studies, sociology, and psychology, mirroring the diversity of the subject matter. This book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction to Healthy Minds: Mental Health Practice and Perception in the Twentieth Century -- 2. ‘The Holy War against Alcohol’: Alcoholism, Medicine and Psychiatry in Ireland, c. 1890-1921 -- 3. Social Stigma, Stress, and Enforced Transition in Specialist Epilepsy Services 1905-1965 -- 4. Planning for the Future: Special Education and the Creation of ‘Healthy Minds’ -- 5. Healthy Minds and Intellectual Disability -- 6. Sheltered Employment and Mental Health in Britain: Remploy c.1945-81 -- 7. Autism in the 20th Century: An Evolution of a Controversial Condition -- 8. Challenging Psychiatric Classification: Healthy Autistic Diversity the Neurodiversity Movement-- 9. The National Schizophrenia Fellowship: Charity, Caregiving and Strategies of Coping, 1960-1980 -- 10. ‘(Un)healthy Minds’ and Visual and Tactile Arts, c.1900-1950 -- 11. The Myth of Dream-Hacking and Inner Space in Science Fiction, 1948–2010.
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A History of Self-Harm in Britain : A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat38870
Chris Millard.
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Palgrave Macmillan
, c2015.
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This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes that occur in mental and physical healthcare, social work and wider politics.
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- Millard, Chris
- Responsibility
- Chris Millard
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 268 p.)
- Series Title
- Mental health in historical perspective
- ISBN
- 9781137529626
- 9781137547736 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Self-Injurious Behavior - history
- Health Policy - history
- History of Medicine
- Sociological Factors
- Other Subjects
- Great Britain
- Specialty
- History of Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Abstract
- This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes that occur in mental and physical healthcare, social work and wider politics.
- Contents
- Introduction: Self-Harm from Social Setting to Neurobiology -- 1. Early Twentieth-Century Self-Harm: Cut Throats, General and Mental Medicine -- 2. Communicative Self-Harm: War, NHS and Social Work -- 3. Self-Harm Becomes Epidemic: Mental Health (1959) and Suicide (1961) Acts -- 4. Self-Harm as a Result of Domestic Distress -- 5. Self-Harm as Self-Cutting: Inpatients and Internal Tension -- Conclusion: The Politics of Self-Harm: Social Setting and Self-Regulation.
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- Open access
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- e-Book
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- Online
