Article ID: CBB001320294

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
Wright, David
Coleborne, Catharine
Scrimgeour, David
Gollo, Francesca
Salustri, Marco
Fusco, Vera
Journals
Mefisto: Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia
Health and History
Journal of Medical Biography
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
Scrimgeour Yorkshire
Presses de l'Université du Québec
Palgrave Macmillan
Inanna Publications
Concepts
Psychiatric hospitals
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatry
Patients
Hospitals and clinics
Medicine
People
Guttmann, Ludwig
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
England
Australia
Great Britain
Italy
New Zealand
Devon (England)
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