We are recreating bedlam' : a history of mental illness and prison systems in England and Ireland / Catherine Cox [and three others].

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Author/Creator:

Cox, Catherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Mental health services.

Prisoners.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

We are recreating bedlam’

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Summary:

This essay explores the historical relationship between mental health and the prison system in England and Ireland, from the introduction of the separate system of discipline in the 1840s. In doing so, we focus on the persistently high rates of confinement of prisoners with mental health problems as well as the impact of prison regimes in producing or exacerbating mental illness. Despite recognition of the harmful relationship between the prison and mental disorder, responses by prison medical officers were stymied by their complex tasks of managing and treating mental illness and preserving prison discipline. Our account concludes by drawing out continuities from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century in terms of the obstacles to the effective care of mentally ill prisoners.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction.- PART 1. Penal Power and the Psy Disciplines : Contextualising Mental Health and Imprisonment

Chapter 2. 'We Are Recreating Bedlam': A History of Mental Illness and Prison Systems in England and Ireland / Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland

Chapter 3. The Architecture of Psychiatry and the Architecture of Incarceration / Simon Cross and Yvonne Jewkes.- Chapter 4. Psychological Jurisprudence and the Relational Problems of De-vitalization and Finalization: Revisiting the Society of Captives Thesis / Bruce A. Arrigo and Brian G. Sellers.- PART 2. Care versus Custody

Chapter 5. Care versus Custody: Challenges in the Provision of Prison Mental Healthcare / Alice Mills and Kathleen Kendall

Chapter 6. How do New Psychoactive Substances Affect the Mental Health of Prisoners? / Hattie Moyes

Chapter 7. 'There was no understanding, there was no care, there was no looking after me': The impact of the prison environment on the mental health of female prisoners / Anastasia Jablonska and Rosie Meek.- PART 3 Dividing Practices: Structural Violence, Mental health and Imprisonment

Chapter 8 Institutions of Default and Management: Aboriginal Women with Mental and Cognitive Disability in Prison / Ruth McCausland, Elizabeth McEntyre and Eileen Baldry

Chapter 9. Culture, Mental Illness, and Prison: A New Zealand Perspective / James Cavney and Susan Hatters Friedman.- Chapter10. 'Malignant Reality': Mental Ill-Health and Self-Inflicted Deaths in England and Wales; Joe Sim

Chapter 11. Institutional Captives: US Women Trapped in the Medical / Correctional / Welfare Circuit / Maureen Norton-Hawk and Susan Sered

Chapter 12. Queer and Trans Incarceration Distress: Considerations from a Mad Queer Abolitionist Perspective / Andrea Daley and Kim Radford.- PART 3. Alternative Penal Practices and Communities

Chapter 13. A Sense of Belonging: The Walls to Bridges Educational Program as a Healing Space / Shoshana Pollack and Denise Edwards

Chapter 14. Coping with incarceration: The emerging case for the utility of peer-support programs in prison / Christian Perrin

Chapter 15. Conclusion / Kathleen Kendall and Alice Mills.

Notes:

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