Adventures in Psychiatry: Narrating and Enacting Reform in Post-War Mental Healthcare

Mental hospitals were brought within the provisions of the new National Health Service in 1948, and this development provided psychiatrists and other mental health care workers with an opportunity to raise the status of psychiatry by reframing the profession as just another branch of medicine. Despi...

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Published in:Studies in the literary imagination 2015-03, Vol.48 (1), p.109-125
Main Author: Long, Vicky
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Appointments & personnel changes
Autobiographies
Biographies
Criticism and interpretation
Health care policy
Health care reform
History
Hospitals
Medical publishing
Medicine
Mental disorders
Mental health policy
Narratives
Physical therapy
Postwar society
Psychiatry
Psychological literature
Social aspects
War
Writers
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Summary:Mental hospitals were brought within the provisions of the new National Health Service in 1948, and this development provided psychiatrists and other mental health care workers with an opportunity to raise the status of psychiatry by reframing the profession as just another branch of medicine. Despite the absence of supporting evidence, there is good reason to give credence to Dally's assertion, for she had trained under Sargant and knew him personally. [...]before her death, Dally had been the custodian of Sargant's personal papers and had been working on a biography of him.
ISSN:0039-3819
2165-2678
2165-2678
DOI:10.1353/sli.2015.0007