Article ID: CBB001213644

Family Influence and Psychiatric Care: Physical Treatments in Devon Mental Hospitals, c. 1920 to the 1970s (2013)

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`What is it that appears to make the mentally ill so vulnerable to therapeutic experimentation?' One commentator wrote in the 1990s, regarding mental hospitals as repressive, coercive and custodial institutions where medical staff subjected patients to orgies of experimentation. A careful study of surviving documents of the Devon County Lunatic Asylum (DCLA), however, paints a different picture. Rather than medical staff, patients' relatives and the wider community exercised a considerable influence over a patient's hospital admission and discharge, rendering the therapeutic regime in the middle of the 20th century the result of intense negotiations between the hospital and third parties.

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Authors & Contributors
Mary de Young
Maieron, Mario Augusto
Juliette Rigondet
Evers, David L.
Grillini, Anna
Adams, J S
Concepts
Psychiatric hospitals
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatry
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Medicine
Hospitals and clinics
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
Australia
Italy
England
Mexico City (Mexico)
Netherlands
Institutions
Manicomio General La Castañeda (Psychiatric Hospital)
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