âThere Was an Awful Lot that Was Good and that Was Necessaryâ: the Hidden Heritage of the Old State Mental Hospitals

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Chapter 11 âThere Was an Awful Lot that Was Good and that Was Necessaryâ: the Hidden Heritage of the Old State Mental Hospitals

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Pages:: 202â221

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004519848_013

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The prevailing perception of the now-closed old state mental hospitals in Britain as outmoded and undesirable has obscured the emotional connections that some former patients and retired staff have for these sites. It has had the effect of effacing the personal histories of mental health service users and workers who hold positive memories of the care provided therein. Drawing on oral histories of former patients and retired staff and community collections of hospital artefacts, this chapter aims to explore the implications of the enforced amnesia of meaningful care practices in the old system for the historiography and heritage of now-defunct psychiatric institutions. It exposes the often-unexplored impacts of deinstitutionalization and the failures of care in community.

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Narrating the Heritage of Psychiatry

Series:Â Narratives and Mental Health, Volume: 1

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004519848

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 09 Oct 2024

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