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York Lunatic Asylum -- History --- Wilberforce

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Northampton General Lunatic Asylum --- Mentally ill -- Institutional care -- England -- Northampton

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This history of one particular place for "madness" covers changing approaches to insanity and treatments over two centuries. The Norfolk Lunatic Asylum opened in 1814 as a pioneer county pauper institution and in 1998 St Andrew's featured among the last of the large psychiatric hospital closures. This history of one particular place for "madness" coverschanging approaches to insanity and treatments over two centuries. It draws extensively upon archival sources to examine the use of buildings and environments; the regimes of long-serving masters, superintendents and medical superintendents; the patients' own experiences; and the rationales, including cultural and gender issues, which informed therapies, relationships and hospital life. However, the contexts of national policies and economic constraints, professional and therapeutic developments, local economy and society, and current research findings are also acknowledged. Chapters dealing with the asylum's transformation as the 1915-19 Norfolk War Hospital and 1940-47 Emergency Hospital have disturbing revelations concerning wartime mental health care: similarly with the loss of local accountability and the experience of resource control under the National Health Service. Interviews with former staff and current personnel recall first-hand experiences of hospital life since the 1920s, the privations of wartime and the early NHS, hopes for new medications and conflicting views surrounding the closure of St Andrew's and thedelivery of community mental health care. STEVEN CHERRY is senior lecturer in history, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of East Anglia.

Psychiatric hospitals --- History --- Norfolk Lunatic Asylum (Norfolk, England) --- St. Andrew's Hospital (Norfolk, England) --- History. --- Community mental health care. --- Insanity. --- Norfolk Lunatic Asylum. --- Psychiatric hospital. --- St Andrew's Hospital. --- Wartime mental health care.

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Newspaper reporter Nellie Bly got herself admitted to a New York mental institute in 1887 to gather data undercover on conditions for patients.

Mentally ill --- Psychiatric hospital care --- Psychiatric hospitals --- Women patients --- Women --- Commitment and detention --- History --- History --- History --- History --- Mental health services --- History --- Bly, Nellie, --- N.Y. City Lunatic Asylum.

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Focusing on the history of the Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum (renamed a mental hospital after 1933), situated near Bulawayo in the former Southern Rhodesia, Surfacing Up explores the social, cultural, and political history of the colony that became Zimbabwe after gaining its independence in 1980. The phrase "surfacing up" was drawn from a conversation Lynette A. Jackson had with a psychiatric nurse who used the concept to explain what brought African potential patients into the psychiatric system. Jackson uses Ingutsheni as a reference point for the struggle to "domesticate" Africa and its citizens after conquest. Drawing on the work of Frantz Fanon, Jackson maintains that the asylum in Southern Rhodesia played a significant role in maintaining the colonial social order. She supports Fanon's claim that colonial psychiatric hospitals were repositories for those of "indocile nature" or for those who failed to fit "the social background of the colonial type."Through reconstruction and reinterpretation of patient narratives, Jackson shows how patients were diagnosed, detained, and deemed recovered. She draws on psychiatric case files to analyze the changing economic, social, and environmental conditions of the colonized, the varying needs of the white settlers, and the shifting boundaries between these two communities. She seeks to extend and enrich our understanding of how a significant institution changed the way citizens and subjects experienced the colonial social order.

History, 20th Century --- Social Control, Formal --- Commitment of Mentally Ill --- Hospitals, Psychiatric --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Mental Disorders --- Social control --- Psychiatric hospital care --- Psychiatry --- history --- etiology --- ethnology --- History --- Social aspects --- Ingutsheni Mental Hospital --- Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum --- History.