Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century

In and Beyond the Asylum

Steven J. Taylor, Alice Brumby, Steven J. Taylor, Alice Brumby

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9783030272746
• eBook ISBN:
  9783030272753
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: History

This open access edited collection 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. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional walls and consider mental health through the lenses of institutions, policy, nomenclature, art, lived experience, and popular culture.The book adopts an international scope covering the historical experiences of Britain, Ireland, and North America. In accordance with this broad approach, contributions to the volume span academic fields such as history, arts, literary studies, sociology, and psychology, mirroring the diversity of the subject matter.

This book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction to Healthy Minds: Mental Health Practice and Perception in the Twentieth Century
• 2. ‘The Holy War Against Alcohol’: Alcoholism, Medicine and Psychiatry in Ireland, c. 1890–1921
• 3. Social Stigma, Stress and Enforced Transition in Specialist Epilepsy Services 1905–1965
• 4. Planning for the Future: Special Education and the Creation of ‘Healthy Minds’
• 5. Healthy Minds and Intellectual Disability
• 6. Sheltered Employment and Mental Health in Britain: Remploy c.1945–1981
• 7. Autism in the Twentieth Century: An Evolution of a Controversial Condition
• 8. Challenging Psychiatric Classification: Healthy Autistic Diversity and the Neurodiversity Movement
• 9. The National Schizophrenia Fellowship: Charity, Caregiving and Strategies of Coping, 1960–1980
• 10. ‘(Un)healthy Minds’ and Visual and Tactile Arts, c.1900–1950
• 11. The Myth of Dream-Hacking and ‘Inner Space’ in Science Fiction, 1948–2010
• Correction to: Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century
• Back Matter