Topic
Psychiatry research, explained
6 open-access psychiatry studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Rethinking England’s mental health services since 1959
Witness seminars with clinicians, users, and policymakers map how English mental health care fragmented after asylum rundown, and they set a research agenda beyond single-issue myths.
- How did tabloids feel about closing the asylums?
Sidi studies UK tabloid coverage 1980–1995 of psychiatry after the madhouses: community care beside a long history of institutional ‘mad’ treatment, Powell’s 1961 water-towers speech, and scare-mongering headlines about violence.
- How MIND recast learning-disability citizenship
Toms argues that mentally deficient people became citizens after the war almost unnoticed, and that MIND's 1970s campaign only makes sense against NAMH's mental-hygiene origins from 1913/1946.
- Were early psychiatric diseases essences?
The paper traces Christian Wolff’s logic into Boissier de Sauvages’ nosology and shows William Cullen also individuated disease species by a single essential cause.
- Richard Lea’s letters from Cape asylums
A British sergeant wrote twelve letters insisting he was sane, documenting violence, race, and illegal detention in the Cape network.
- Mental hygiene and global psychiatry in India
From the 1930s, Indian mental hygiene mixed British models, Berkeley-Hill organising, and nationalist/eugenic family politics.