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4 ‘The general atmosphere of this admission unit is reassuring and optimistic’
Modernism, architectural research and evolving psychiatric reforms in post-war England
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Christina Malathouni
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Figures vii
- Contributors x
- Introduction 1
- I Visions and dreams 29
- 1 New practices, new institutions 31
- 2 The Gorizia experiment 56
- 3 Social psychiatry in the making 84
- 4 ‘The general atmosphere of this admission unit is reassuring and optimistic’ 111
- II Experimentation 139
- 5 Non-hierarchical experimentation 141
- 6 Last resort or early intervention 161
- 7 Treating mutism in Hungarian child psychiatry, 1957–60 186
- III Reflections 211
- 8 Changing attitudes 213
- 9 In the wake of Goffman? Doing social sciences at the site of psychiatry in Austria 234
- 10 Writing patients 259
- IV Crossing institutional boundaries 285
- 11 Neuroleptics outside psychiatry 287
- 12 Psychiatric practices beyond psychiatry 312
- Index 335
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Figures vii
- Contributors x
- Introduction 1
- I Visions and dreams 29
- 1 New practices, new institutions 31
- 2 The Gorizia experiment 56
- 3 Social psychiatry in the making 84
- 4 ‘The general atmosphere of this admission unit is reassuring and optimistic’ 111
- II Experimentation 139
- 5 Non-hierarchical experimentation 141
- 6 Last resort or early intervention 161
- 7 Treating mutism in Hungarian child psychiatry, 1957–60 186
- III Reflections 211
- 8 Changing attitudes 213
- 9 In the wake of Goffman? Doing social sciences at the site of psychiatry in Austria 234
- 10 Writing patients 259
- IV Crossing institutional boundaries 285
- 11 Neuroleptics outside psychiatry 287
- 12 Psychiatric practices beyond psychiatry 312
- Index 335
