Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century : : In and Beyond the Asylum.

• Superior document: Mental Health in Historical Perspective Series
• Author: Taylor, Steven J.
• TeilnehmendeR: Brumby, Alice.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; Ã2020.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (281 pages)

Table of Contents

Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Healthy Minds: Mental Health Practice and Perception in the Twentieth Century -- Introduction -- Places of Care for the 'Unhealthy' Mind -- Mental Health in the Twentieth Century: Policy and Practice -- Keeping Minds Healthy: About the Chapters -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2 'The Holy War Against Alcohol': Alcoholism, Medicine and Psychiatry in Ireland, c. 1890-1921 -- Introduction -- Medical Discourses -- Alcoholism and Asylums -- Diagnosing Alcoholism -- Treating Alcoholism -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Social Stigma, Stress and Enforced Transition in Specialist Epilepsy Services 1905-1965 -- Introduction -- Social Stigma and Stress in the Colonies -- Epilepsy and the Family Home -- Colonies and After-Care -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Planning for the Future: Special Education and the Creation of 'Healthy Minds' -- Introduction -- Legislating for Healthy Minds -- Sandwell Hall School -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5 Healthy Minds and Intellectual Disability -- Introduction -- Labels-Language and Its Significance -- The Eugenic Influence and Legacy -- Sterilisation and Contraception -- Normalisation and Social Role Valorisation -- Eradication -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6 Sheltered Employment and Mental Health in Britain: Remploy c.1945-1981 -- Introduction -- The Impact of the 1959 Mental Health Act-A Turning Point? -- Mental Disability Within Remploy -- Conclusions -- Chapter 7 Autism in the Twentieth Century: An Evolution of a Controversial Condition -- Introduction -- Early History of Autism -- Contextualising Children -- Diagnosing Autism: The Introduction of Standardised Manuals -- DSM 5: Autism in the Twenty-First Century -- The Genetic Revolution -- The Challenge of Anti and Critical Psychiatry.

Neurodiversity: Empowering Autism -- Drawing Conclusions: Our Personal View of Autism in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 8 Challenging Psychiatric Classification: Healthy Autistic Diversity and the Neurodiversity Movement -- Introduction -- The Neurodiversity Movement -- Autism as a Diagnostic Category -- The Position of the NDM -- Opposing Elimination and Cure -- Use of Neurocentric/Medical Models -- Objections to Diagnosis as a Category of Disorder -- Embracing Labels: Being or Having? -- Diverse Perspectives Within Social Health and Survivor Movements -- Conclusions -- Chapter 9 The National Schizophrenia Fellowship: Charity, Caregiving and Strategies of Coping, 1960-1980 -- Introduction -- On Our Own, with the Medical Authorities -- Stigma and Feelings of Loneliness -- A Plea for Action -- Feelings of Support -- Better Together -- Conclusions -- Chapter 10 '(Un)healthy Minds' and Visual and Tactile Arts, c.1900-1950 -- Introduction -- Viewing Art, Psychological Health and the Restorative Function of Colour and Form -- Modern Art, Madness and Appropriating Mental Illness -- Art and Craft-Making Practices as Occupational Therapy -- Art Therapy: Painting, Expression and Agency -- Conclusions -- Chapter 11 The Myth of Dream-Hacking and 'Inner Space' in Science Fiction, 1948-2010 -- Introduction -- 1948-1966: The Emergence of a Genre -- 1981-1990: The Second Age of Inner Space -- 2000-2010: The Breakthrough of a Genre -- Conclusions: 'Which Way to Inner Space?' (J. G. Ballard, 1962) -- Correction to: Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century -- Correction to: S. J. Taylor and A. Brumby (eds.), Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century, Mental Health in Historical Perspective,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27275-3 -- Index.