Cultures of psychiatry and mental health care in postwar Britain and the Netherlands /

Cultures of psychiatry and mental health care in postwar Britain and the Netherlands / / edited by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Roy Porter.

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Anti-psychiatry' is a movement more sloganized than analysed. Until now it has been associated in the English-speaking world primarily with R.D. Laing and a coterie of his associates, and a radical critique not just of psychiatric hospitalization but of the very premises of psychiatry itself an...

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Superior document:Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
TeilnehmendeR:
Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke,
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1998]
©1998
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
Series:Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and the Netherlands / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
  • Restructuring Mental Health Services in Twentieth Century Britain / Joan Busfield
  • Dutch Psychiatry after World War II: An Overview / Paul Schnabel
  • Before Anti-Psychiatry: 'Mental Health' in Wartime Britain / Mathew Thomson
  • Psychiatry and Society: The Dutch Mental Hygiene Movement 1924-1960 / Leonie de Goei
  • 'They Used to Call it Psychiatry': Aspects of the Development and Impact of Psychopharmacology / E. M. Tansey
  • LSD and the Dualism between Medical and Social Theories of Mental Illness / Stephen Snelders
  • R. D. Laing in Scotland: Facts and Fictions of the 'Rumpus Room' and Interpersonal Psychiatry / Jonathan Andrews
  • "Messiah of the Schizophrenics": Jan Foudraine and Anti-Psychiatry in Holland / Gemma Blok
  • The Dennendal Experiment, 1969-1974: The Legacy of a Tolerant Educative Culture / Ido Weijers
  • Enemies Within: Postwar Bethlem and the Maudsley Hospital / Keir Waddington
  • The Changing Professional Identity of the Dutch Psychiatrist 1960-1970 / Harry Oosterhuis and Saskia Wolters
  • From the Asylum to the Community: The Mental Patient in Postwar Britain / Peter Barham
  • The Battle Against Peace-Keeping Frustrations: Psychiatrists and Psychologists in the Dutch Army / Hans Binneveld
  • Anti-Psychiatry and the Family: Taking the Long View / Roy Porter
  • Raising the Anti: Jan Foudraine, Ronald Laing and Anti-Psychiatry / Colin Jones
  • The View from the North Sea / David Ingleby
  • Index.

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