Book Details

Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century In and Beyond the Asylum

Publication year: 2020

ISBN: 978-3-030-27275-3

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This book contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness.


Subject: History, Social History, Modern History, History of Medicine, Psychiatry, Mental wellbeing, Everyday life, Institutional care, Spatial turn, Deinstitutionalisation, Psychiatry, Modernity, Learning disabilities, Neurodiversity, Education, Visual arts, Open Access Chapters