Unfortunate Folk Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863-1992
by Brookes, Barbara; Thomson, JaneEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-01-01
Publisher(s): Otago University Press
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Summary
In this collection of 15 studies, medical students at the University of Otago examine aspects of the early and modern history of mental health institutions in New Zealand and attitudes toward patients as unfortunate aliens to the world of reason. The final section looks at broader trends including that country's professionalisation of psychiatry, women psychiatrists, and changing ideas about the mentally ill. Photographs feature asylums and special schools and their patients and staff in various periods.
Author Biography
Barbara Brookes is an associate professor in the history department, University of Otago. One of her research interests is the history of medicine and her work in this field has acted as a catalyst for students. She has supervised several of the students whose work appears in this book. Jane Thomson is an independent editor who worked with Michael Reilly on another volume of student essays, When the Waves Rolled in Upon Us: Essays in Nineteenth-Centry Maori History, also published by University of Otago Press.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. 5 |
| Abbreviations | p. 6 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 7 |
| Introduction | p. 9 |
| Founding Years in Otago Institutions | |
| Dunedin Lunatic Asylum, 1863-1876 | p. 21 |
| Truby King and Seacliff, 1889-1907 | p. 35 |
| Taming the Brain Storms | p. 49 |
| 'Criminal Lunacy' 1882-1912 | p. 66 |
| Ashburn Hall, 1882-1904 | p. 83 |
| Seacliff and Ashburn Hall Compared, 1882-1911 | p. 104 |
| Into the Modern Era in Otago | |
| Ashburn Hall, 1905-1947 | p. 115 |
| The Otekaieke Special School for Boys, 1908-1950 | p. 123 |
| Psychiatry and Seacliff, 1912-1948 | p. 137 |
| 'Unfortunate Folk': A Study of the Social Context of Committal to Seacliff 1928-1937 | p. 153 |
| Cherry Farm, 1952-1992: Social and Economic Forces in the Evolution of Mental Health Care in Otago | p. 168 |
| Some New Zealand Perspectives | |
| Scientific Pastors: The Professionalisation of Psychiatry in New Zealand 1877-1920 | p. 185 |
| 'Production not Reproduction': The Problem of Mental Defect in New Zealand 1920-1935 | p. 200 |
| Women Psychiatrists in New Zealand, 1900-1990: An Oral History | p. 215 |
| A Separate World? The Social Position of the Mentally Ill, 1945-1955 | p. 235 |
| Notes | p. 255 |
| Index | p. 297 |
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