Work, psychiatry and society, c.1750-2015 / edited by Waltraud Ernst.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Ernst, Waltraud, 1955- editor.
• Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Work--Treatment--Social aspects.
• Occupational therapy--History--Psychological aspects.
• Work--history.
• Work--psychology.
• Mentally Ill Persons--psychology.
• Occupational Therapy--psychology.
• Occupational Therapy--history.
• Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.
• Psychotherapeutic Processes.
• Mental illness--Treatment.
• Occupational therapy.
• History.
• Psychological aspects.
• Work.
• Social aspects.

Medical Subjects:

• Work--history.
• Work--psychology.
• Mentally Ill Persons--psychology.
• Occupational Therapy--psychology.
• Occupational Therapy--history.
• Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.
• Psychotherapeutic Processes.

Genre:

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Physical Description:

xii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This collection offers a systematic critical appraisal of the uses of work and work therapy in psychiatric institutions across the world, from the late eighteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Art the same time it presents an alternative history of the emergence of occupational therapy. The contributions explore the daily routine of mental patients in psychiatric institutions and add the hitherto negelected dimension of patients' work to the history of psychiatric regimes, exploring whether work was therapy, part of a regime of punishment or a means of exploiting free labour. The geographic scope of the collection ranges from North America to Japan, India and Western and Eastern Europe. Authors engage with broader historical questions such as the impact of colonialism and communism, the World Wars and issues of political governance and care in community projects. The book will be of interest to academics in the fields of history of medicine and psychiatry social and economic in story and sociology and also to healthcare professionals. Book jacket.

Contents:

• 1 The role of work in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century treatises on moral treatment in France, Tuscany and Britain / Jane Freebody Freebody, Jane 31
• 2 Therapeutic work and mental illness in America, c. 1830-1970 / Ben Harris Harris, Ben 55
• 3 Travails of madness: New Jersey, 1800-70 / James Moran Moran, James 77
• 4 From blasting powder to tomato pickles: Patient work at the provincial mental hospitals in British Columbia, Canada, 1885-1920 / Kathryn McKay McKay, Kathryn 99
• 5 'Useful both to the patients as well as to the State': Patient work in colonial mental hospitals in South Asia, c. 1818-1948 / Waltraud Ernst Ernst, Waltraud 117
• 6 'A powerful agent in their recovery': Work as treatment in British West Indian lunatic asylums, 1860-1910 / Leonard Smith Smith, Leonard 142
• 7 Work and activity in mental hospitals in modern Japan, c. 1868-2000 / Akira Hashimoto Hashimoto, Akira 163
• 8 Patient work and family care at Iwakura, Japan, c. 1799-1970 / Osama Nakamura Nakamura, Osama 182
• 9 Work and occupation in Romanian psychiatry, c. 1838-1945 / Valentin-Veron Toma Toma, Valentin-Veron 194
• 10 Between therapeutic instrument and exploitation of labour force: Patient work in rural asylums in Württemberg, c. 1810-1945 / Thomas Muller Muller, Thomas 220
• 11 The patient's view of work therapy: The mental hospital Hamburg-Langenhorn during the Weimar Republic / Monika Ankele Ankele, Monika 238
• 12 They were 'improved', punished and cured: The construction of 'workshy', 'industrious' and (non-)compliant inmates in forced labour facilities in the First Republic of Austria between 1918 and 1938 / Sonja Hinsch Hinsch, Sonja 262
• 13 Useful members of society or motiveless malingerers? Occupation and malingering in British asylum psychiatry, 1870-1914 / Sarah Chaney Chaney, Sarah 277
• 14 Work and the Irish District Asylums during the late nineteenth century / Oonagh Walsh Walsh, Oonagh 298
• 15 From work and occupation to occupational therapy: The policies of professionalisation in English mental hospitals from 1919 to 1959 / John Hall Hall, John 314
• 16 Work is therapy? The function of employment in British psychiatric care after 1959 / Vicky Long Long, Vicky 334
• 17 The hollow gardener and other stories: Reason and relation in the work cure / Jennifer Laws Laws, Jennifer 351.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

• 9780719097690
• 071909769X

OCLC:

920735789

Publisher Number:

99967981605

Online:

The Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund Home Page