Work and occupation in French and English mental hospitals, c.1918-1939

Work and occupation in French and English mental hospitals, c.1918-1939 / Jane Freebody.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freebody, Jane (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Series:Mental health in historical perspective.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Occupational therapy > France > History > 20th century.
Occupational therapy > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Mental illness > Treatment > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Mental illness > Treatment > France > History > 20th century.
Psychiatric hospitals > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Psychiatric hospitals > France > History > 20th century.
Mental illness > Treatment
Occupational therapy
Psychiatric hospitals
France
Great Britain
History
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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.

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