Presumed Curable - Colin Gale Reviews
Description:ISBN 1871816483 /
Newest Review: ... gloves. Patients were allowed relative freedom, day trips and unsupervised walks, a far cry from the medieval and early ... more
... modern descriptions of the hospital.
The book begins with a preface about the nature of psychiatry and how little we still understand about many of these disorders, but also how some of the latest advances e.g. in schizophrenia could have saved many of these people a whole lifetime of institutionalisation.
There is then a 13 page introduction to Bethlem hospital, the patients, their lives and the doctors who controlled their treatments, illustrated with fascinating pictures of therapeutic groups, the hospital grounds, an...more
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Presumed Curable - Colin Gale: No psychopathic cannibals allowed (1092 words)by - written on 10/04/07 (Very useful, 198 readings)
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What do you think of when someone says ‘Mental Asylum’? Hannibal Lecter? Cages? Bars? Padded rooms? Screaming? Babbling? A while back I stumbled across an incredibly foolhardy group of people called urban explorers who break into and photograph the rotting abandoned hulks of mental asylums and old hospitals across the UK. As I browsed the fascinating photographs of these places, looked at the remains of the wards, the equipment left behind and the poignant remains of everyday life, I was curious about the people who had been housed here and who had made their lives in these places. So it was off to Amazon (where else?) and this was the first book I ordered. ... Read the complete review
