Series Editors of Mental Health in Historical Perspective, Catharine Coleborne and Matthew Smith, discuss 'madness', institutions and asylums. What does it mean to talk about ‘mental health in ...
In popular culture, the history of mental healthcare is a dismal affair, filled with dark cells, chains, and torture. Psychiatrists are often evil geniuses or mad scientists, and mental hospitals ...
In contemporary psychiatry, few topics elicit such intense and complex debate as the relationship between mental health and extreme forms of violence. Among these, mass shootings stand out as a ...
The long and dark history of Wales ... alongside others with acute mental illness. It would be almost 80 years before the introduction of even rudimentary mental health treatments.