Managing madness : Weyburn Mental Hospital and the transformation of psychiatric care in Canada / Erika Dyck [and seven others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyck, Erika, Author.

Dyck, Erika, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saskatchewan Hospital (Weyburn, Sask.).

Mental health services--Saskatchewan--History.

Mental health services.

Mentally ill--Institutional care--Saskatchewan--History.

Mentally ill.

Psychiatric hospitals--Saskatchewan--History.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2017.

Summary:

"The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and community care in Canada. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the twentieth century. Built in 1921, the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was billed as the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its kind in the British Commonwealth. A decade later, the Canadian Committee for Mental Hygiene cited it as one of the worst institutions in the country, largely due to extreme overcrowding. In the 1950s, the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital again attracted international attention for engaging in controversial therapeutic interventions, including treatments using LSD. In the 1960s, sweeping health care reforms took hold in the province and mental health institutions underwent dramatic changes as they began moving patients into communities. As the patient and staff population shrank, the once palatial building fell into disrepair, the asylum's expansive farmland fell out of cultivation, and mental health services folded into a complicated web of social and correctional services. Managing Madness examines the Weyburn Mental Hospital, the people it housed, struggled to understand, help, or even tried to change, and the ever-shifting understanding of mental health."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Who has seen the asylum?

Optimism and celebration

Experiencing the asylum

False starts

Socializing mental health care

Pills, politics, and experiments of all kinds

Dissolving the walls

Hospital diasporas

Consumption and survival

Legacies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 10, 2018).

ISBN:

9780887555374

0887555373

9780887555350

0887555357

OCLC:

1020026515