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Rethinking Post-war Mental Health Care: Industrial Therapy and the Chronic Mental Patient in Britain

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The article argues that we need to examine how the transformations of psychiatric practice in the post-war era affected individuals suffering from chronic mental disorder, via an analysis which encompasses the biomedical and social dimensions of intra- and extra-mural care. It focuses upon the development of industrial therapy units in British psychiatric hospitals, in which patients undertook industrial sub-contract work.

Posted in: History on 03/21/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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