1st Edition

In-patient Mental Health Care from the Asylum System to the Present Day A Lived Experience of Policy and Practice

By Andrew Colley Copyright 2024
110 Pages
by Routledge

110 Pages
by Routledge

110 Pages
by Routledge

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. Part narrative history and critical analysis, part autoethnography, this unique volume critiques the ethics of early policy decisions which led... Read more

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.

Biography

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