Work and Occupation in French and English Mental Hospitals, c.1918-1939
Jane Freebody offers a fresh perspective on life in the asylum in both England and France which will be of interest to historians of the institutional everyday as well as historians of psychiatry. In this fascinating and original study, she not only focuses on the less examined interwar period and t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Patient Work before the First World War
- 3. From Alienism to Psychiatry
- 4. New Approaches to Patient Work and Occupation
- 5. Money and Management
- 6. The Medical Prescription of Patient Occupation
- 7. The Supervision of Patient Occupation
- 8. The Patient Workers Inside Hospital
- 9. Work and Support for Patients Outside Hospital
- Conclusions