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Secure Lives: The Meaning and Importance of Culture in Secure Hospital Care (2016)

Bartlett, Annie (Author)

Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2016
Language: English

ISBN: 9780199640928

Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 400

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Forensic psychiatry Medicine and law Prisoners Patients Institutionalization Psychiatric hospitals Psychiatry 20th century, late 21st century

Though institutional care for people suffering from mental illness was phased out in the last century, mentally disordered offenders remain the exception to this rule. The numbers detained in medium secure care have increased and new initiatives in high secure care have created specialistfacilities for individuals thought to be particularly dangerous to other people. This means that the nature of institutional life, and in particular the balance between continuing detention for its own sake and care and treatment designed to allow for discharge to a more normal life in thecommunity, should continue to pre-occupy us.Secure Lives is a unique study of life in a high security hospital, based on original research material obtained in the mid 1990s. Compelling personal accounts from staff and patients, as well as case study material, illustrate the complex culture of a high security hospital. The book explores thecomplex relationship that exists between staff and patients, the social hierarchy, and life amongst potentially dangerous and mentally ill individuals. Though there are many texts on forensic psychiatry in practice, this book provides a first-hand account of life in an environment never seen bythose outside its walls.

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Review Erin J Lux (2016) Review of "Secure Lives: The Meaning and Importance of Culture in Secure Hospital Care". History of Psychiatry (pp. 371-372). unapi

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