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

Book Overview

IntroductionDespo 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 historiographyChapter 1. John Burnham, Deinstitutionalisation and the great sociocultural shift to consumer cultureChapter 2. Alexander Dunst, 'All the Fits That's News to Print': Deinstitutionalisation and Anti-Psychiatric Movement Magazines in the United States, 1970-1986Chapter 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, N?r?e 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 oppositionsChapter 4. Christof Beyer, 'Islands of reform'. Early transformation of the mental health service in Lower Saxony, Germany in the 1960sChapter 5. Nicolas Henckes, French deinstitutionalisation or the irony of success. Psychiatrists, the State and the transformation of the French psychiatric system, 1945-2010Chapter 6. Valerie Harrington, Integration in a divided world: Salford Community Mental Health Services 1948-1974Chapter 7. Despo Kritsotaki, Initiating deinstitutionalisation: Early attempts of mental health care reform in Greece, 1950s-1970s
Part III. New conceptualisations of therapy and spaceChapter 8. John Stewart, Child Guidance and Deinstitutionalisation in Post-War BritainChapter 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 legaciesChapter 10. Elena Trivelli, The Basaglian Legacy in Italian Psychiatry: Remembering, Myth-making, and CrystallisingChapter 11. Howard Padwa, Marcia Meldrum, Jack R. Friedman and Joel T. Braslow, A mental health system in recovery. The era of deinstitutionalisation in CaliforniaChapter 12. Roslyn Burge, Callan Park in transition

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319453599
• ISBN13: 9783319453590
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.4"