Deinstitutionalisation and After Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World [Hardcover]

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.

Despo 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 historiography

Chapter 1. John Burnham, Deinstitutionalisation and the great sociocultural shift to consumer culture

Chapter 2. Alexander Dunst, All the Fits Thats News to Print: Deinstitutionalisation and Anti-Psychiatric Movement Magazines in the United States, 1970-1986

Chapter 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 Thifaull“t