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The Afterlives of the Psychiatric Asylum

Author : Graham Moon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317045408
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Afterlives of the Psychiatric Asylum written by Graham Moon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last 40 years has seen a significant shift from state commitment to asylum-based mental health care to a mixed economy of care in a variety of locations. In the wake of this deinstitutionalisation, attention to date has focussed on users and providers of care. The consequences for the idea and fabric of the psychiatric asylum have remained 'stones unturned'. This book address an enduring yet under-examined question: what has become of the asylum? Focussing on the 'recycling' of both the idea of the psychiatric asylum and its sites, buildings and landscapes, this book makes theoretical connections to current trends in mental health care and to ideas in cultural/urban geography. The process of closing asylums and how asylums have survived in specific contexts and markets is assessed and consideration given to the enduring attraction of asylum and its repackaging as well as to retained mental health uses on former asylum sites, new uses on former sites, and interpretations of the derelict psychiatric asylum. The key questions examined are the challenges posed in seeking new uses for former asylums, the extent to which re-use can transcend stigma yet sustain memory and how location is critical in shaping the future of asylum and asylum sites.

Recycling the Psychiatric Asylum

Author : Graham Moon
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781409442530
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Recycling the Psychiatric Asylum written by Graham Moon and published by Lund Humphries Publishers. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on the 'recycling' of both the idea of the psychiatric asylum and its sites, buildings and landscapes, this book makes theoretical connections to current trends in mental health care and to ideas in cultural/urban geography. The process of closing asylums and how asylums have survived in specific contexts and markets is assessed and consideration given to the enduring attraction of asylum and its repackaging as well as to retained mental health uses on former asylum sites, new uses on former sites, and interpretations of the derelict psychiatric asylum.

Voices in the History of Madness

Author : Robert Ellis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303069559X
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Voices in the History of Madness written by Robert Ellis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new perspectives on the multiplicity of voices in the histories of mental ill-health. In the thirty years since Roy Porter called on historians to lower their gaze so that they might better understand patient-doctor roles in the past, historians have sought to place the voices of previously silent, marginalised and disenfranchised individuals at the heart of their analyses. Today, the development of service-user groups and patient consultations have become an important feature of the debates and planning related to current approaches to prevention, care and treatment. This edited collection of interdisciplinary chapters offers new and innovative perspectives on mental health and illness in the past and covers a breadth of opinions, views, and interpretations from patients, practitioners, policy makers, family members and wider communities. Its chronology runs from the early modern period to the twenty-first century and includes international and transnational analyses from Europe, North America, Asia and Africa, drawing on a range of sources and methodologies including oral histories, material culture, and the built environment. Chapter 4 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Memory, Anniversaries and Mental Health in International Historical Perspective

Author : Rebecca Wynter
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031229789
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Memory, Anniversaries and Mental Health in International Historical Perspective written by Rebecca Wynter and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry and mental health. It challenges simplistic representations of the callous nature of mental health care in the past, while at the same time eschewing a celebratory and uncritical marking of anniversaries and individuals. Asking critical questions of the early Whiggish histories of mental health care, the book problematizes the idea of a shared professional and institutional history, and the abiding faith placed in the reform of medicine, administration, and even patients. It contends that much post-1800 legislation drafted to ensure reform, acted to preserve beliefs about the ‘bad old days’ and a ‘brighter future’ in the state memories of imperial powers, which in turn exported these notions around the world. Conversely, the collection demonstrates the variety of remembering and forgetting, building on recent interest in the ideological and cultural linkages between past and present in international psychiatric practice. In this way, it seeks to trace the pathways of memory, exploring the direction of travel, and the perpetuation, remodeling, and uprooting of recollection. Chapter “The New Socialist Citizen and ‘Forgetting’ Authoritarianism: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Revolution in Socialist Yugoslavia” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer. com.

Administrations of Lunacy

Author : Mab Segrest
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620972980
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Administrations of Lunacy written by Mab Segrest and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whew! They going to send around here and tie you up and drag you off to Milledgeville. Them fat blue police chasing tomcats around alleys." —Berenice in The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers A scathing and original look at the racist origins of the field of modern psychiatry, told through the story of what was once the largest mental institution in the world, by the prize-winning author of Memoir of a Race Traitor After a decade of research, Mab Segrest, whose Memoir of a Race Traitor forever changed the way we think about race in America, turns sanity itself inside-out in a stunning book that will become an instant classic. In December 1841, the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum was founded on land taken from the Cherokee nation in the then-State capitol of Milledgeville. A hundred years later, it had become the largest insane asylum in the world with over ten thousand patients. To this day, it is the site of the largest graveyard of disabled and mentally ill people in the world. In April, 1949, Ebony magazine reported that for black patients, "the situation approaches Nazi concentration camp standards . . . unbelievable this side of Dante's Inferno." Georgia's state hospital was at the center of psychiatric practice and the forefront of psychiatric thought throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in America—centuries during which the South invented, fought to defend, and then worked to replace the most developed slave culture since the Roman Empire. A landmark history of a single insane asylum at Milledgeville, Georgia, A Peculiar Inheritance reveals how modern-day American psychiatry was forged in the traumas of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, when African Americans carrying "no histories" entered from Freedmen's Bureau Hospitals and home counties wracked with Klan terror. This history set the stage for the eugenics and degeneracy theories of the twentieth century, which in turn became the basis for much of Nazi thinking in Europe. Segrest's masterwork will forever change the way we think about our own minds.

Welcome to Arkham Asylum

Author : Sharon Packer, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476670986
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Welcome to Arkham Asylum written by Sharon Packer, M.D. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, video games, films, television series and more. The Arkham franchise, supposedly light-weight entertainment, has tackled weighty issues in contemporary psychiatry. Its plotlines reference clinical and ethical controversies that perplex even the most up-to-date professionals. The 25 essays in this collection explore the significance of Arkham's sinister psychiatrists, murderous mental patients, and unethical geneticists. It invites debates about the criminalization of the mentally ill, mental patients who move from defunct state hospitals into expanding prisons, madness versus badness, sociopathy versus psychosis, the "insanity defense" and more. Invoking literary figures from Lovecraft to Poe to Caligari, the 25 essays in this collection are a broad-ranging and thorough assessment of the franchise and its relationship to contemporary psychiatry.

Mental Health and Wellbeing in Rural Regions

Author : Sarah-Anne Munoz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042979908X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Mental Health and Wellbeing in Rural Regions written by Sarah-Anne Munoz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how rurality interacts with the mental health and wellbeing of individuals and communities in different regional settings. Through the use of international and comparative case studies, the book offers insight into the spatiality of mental health diagnoses, experiences, services provision and services access between and within rural areas. It is the first book to specifically address rural mental health geographies from an international perspective, and will be of interest to researchers and policymakers in rural studies, regional studies, health geography and rural mental health.

Asylum

Author : R. B. Rose
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1401093183
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Asylum written by R. B. Rose and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When nurse, Casey Marshall, is employed at a New York State psychiatric hospital, she uncovers the institution's darkest and well kept secret there are "sicker patients" than the ones she takes care of and these "deranged persons" are hidden well within the institution ́s walls. Feeling threatened by her presence, these "disturbed patients" manage to put Casey ́s life in danger, as well as the lives of her patients. In this eerie run-down sanitarium, Casey must struggle against all obstacles hurled at her. Join her as she trudges through the dim corridors of horror seeking justice. I promise, there will be no one to hear you scream, no one to help you, and no turning back from within the Asylum once you fall victim to its insanity.

Deinstitutionalisation and After

Author : Despo Kritsotaki
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319453602
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Deinstitutionalisation and After written by Despo Kritsotaki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Corridors

Author : Roger Luckhurst
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789141036
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Corridors written by Roger Luckhurst and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors, and gangways, yet these channeling spaces do not feature in architectural histories, monographs, or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued, and unregarded, seen as unlovely parts of a building’s infrastructure rather than architecture. This book is the first definitive history of the corridor, from its origins in country houses and utopian communities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through reformist Victorian prisons, hospitals, and asylums, to the “corridors of power,” bureaucratic labyrinths, and housing estates of the twentieth century. Taking in a wide range of sources, from architectural history to fiction, film, and TV, Corridors explores how the corridor went from a utopian ideal to a place of unease: the archetypal stuff of nightmares.

Health Geographies

Author : Tim Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118739027
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Health Geographies written by Tim Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction explores health and biomedical topics from a range of critical geographic perspectives. Building on the field’s past engagement with social theory it extends the focus of health geography into new areas of enquiry. Introduces key topics in health geography through clear and engaging examples and case studies drawn from around the world Incorporates multi-disciplinary perspectives and approaches applied in the field of health geography Identifies both health and biomedical issues as a central area of concern for critically oriented health geographers Features material that is alert to questions of global scale and difference, and sensitive to the political and economic as well sociocultural aspects of health Provides extensive pedagogic materials within the text and guidance for further study

Sites of Conscience

Author : Elisabeth Punzi
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774869356
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Sites of Conscience written by Elisabeth Punzi and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and confined to residential institutions. Deinstitutionalization – the closure of these sites and integration of former residents into the community – has become increasingly commonplace. But this project is unfinished. Sites of Conscience explores use of the concept of sites of conscience, which involves place-based memory activities such as walking tours, survivor-authored social histories, and performances and artistic works in or generated from sites of systemic suffering and injustice. These activities offer new ways to move forward from the unfinished deinstitutionalization project and its failures. Covering diverse national contexts, this volume proposes that acknowledging the memories and lived experiences of former residents – and keeping histories and social heritage of institutions alive rather than simply closing sites – holds the greatest potential for recognition, accountability, and action.

Nightmare Factories

Author : Troy Rondinone
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421432684
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Nightmare Factories written by Troy Rondinone and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the insane asylum came to exert such a powerful hold on the American imagination. Madhouse, funny farm, psychiatric hospital, loony bin, nuthouse, mental institution: no matter what you call it, the asylum has a powerful hold on the American imagination. Stark and foreboding, they symbolize mistreatment, fear, and imprisonment, standing as castles of despair and tyranny across the countryside. In the "asylum" of American fiction and film, treatments are torture, attendants are thugs, and psychiatrists are despots. In Nightmare Factories, Troy Rondinone offers the first history of mental hospitals in American popular culture. Beginning with Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 short story "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether," Rondinone surveys how American novelists, poets, memoirists, reporters, and filmmakers have portrayed the asylum and how those representations reflect larger social trends in the United States. Asylums, he argues, darkly reflect cultural anxieties and the shortcomings of democracy, as well as the ongoing mistreatment of people suffering from mental illness. Nightmare Factories traces the story of the asylum as the masses have witnessed it. Rondinone shows how works ranging from Moby-Dick and Dracula to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Halloween, and American Horror Story have all conversed with the asylum. Drawing from fictional and real accounts, movies, personal interviews, and tours of mental hospitals both active and defunct, Rondinone uncovers a story at once familiar and bizarre, where reality meets fantasy in the foggy landscape of celluloid and pulp.

My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum

Author : Herman Charles Merivale
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum written by Herman Charles Merivale and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an enlightening memoir by Herman Merivale, where he narrated his time in one of England's countryside asylums in the 1860s. He was suffering from depression and was taken into care for treatment. Throughout the work, Merivale attacked over-treatment and suggested that being in the asylum during that period could drive someone into insanity even if they were completely normal.

Monster Metaphors

Author : Peter J. Adams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100086068X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Monster Metaphors written by Peter J. Adams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores ways in which common metaphors can play a detrimental role in everyday life; how they can grow in outsized importance to dominate their respective terrains and push out alternative perspectives; and how forms of resistance might act to contain their dominance. The volume begins by unpacking the dynamics of metaphors, their power and influence and the ways in which they are bolstered by other rhetorical devices. Adams draws on four case studies to illustrate their destructive impact when they eclipse other points of view—the metaphor of mental illness; the metaphor of free-flowing markets; the metaphor of the mind as a mirror and the metaphor of men as naturally superior. Taken together, these examples prompt further reflection on the beneficiaries of these "monster metaphors" and how they promote such metaphors to serve their own interests but also on ways forward for challenging their dominance, strategies for preventing their rise and ways of creating space for alternatives. This book will be of interest to scholars interested in the study of metaphor, across such fields as linguistics, rhetoric and media studies.

Modern Persecution

Author : Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Modern Persecution written by Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mad House

Author : Michael Keene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939688019
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Mad House written by Michael Keene and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Keenes third book explores the dark, twisted history of insane asylums in 19th century New York. While most of these hospitals were opened with altruistic intentions, they quickly degraded into abuses, neglect of patients, and other horrors. Having worked in the mental health industry himself, Keene's experience in the mental health industry gives him special insight as he recounts the horrific stories of the institutions and the souls that once inhabited their wards, but have since been long forgotten.