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Up top : from lunatic asylum to community care : a century of the Mid Wales Mental Hospital

Title

Up top : from lunatic asylum to community care : a century of the Mid Wales Mental Hospital / Hugh Purcell with Margaret Percy.

Author

Purcell, Hugh

Publication

Ceredigion : Y Lolfa, [2018]
©2018

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Additional Authors

Percy, Margaret

Description

201 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"Up Top tells how the mentally ill were treated in the 20th century, focusing on the Mid Wales Mental Hospital, which began as a lunatic asylum and closed when community care took over 100 years later. It was the only UK hospital for psychotic POWs in World War II, including, briefly, the Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. This account is based on original archives and oral testimony from staff and patients, and is copiously illustrated. The Mid Wales Mental Hospital was representative of most mental institutions. The book places in a wide context life in a lunatic asylum, the treatment of shell shock in two world wars, the short lived fashion for brain surgery, heavy ECT and deep sleep treatment; then the increasing reliance on drugs and various therapies before the gradual taking over of community care."--

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (page 195) and index.

ISBN

9781784615918
1784615919

LCCN

2018303583

OCLC

on1031947276
1031947276
SCSB-9087877

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library