Deinstitutionalisation and After: Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World (Mental Health in Historical Perspective)

by Matthew Smith (Editor), Matthew Smith (Editor), Despo Kritsotaki (Editor), Vicky Long (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2016

  $146.25

  The book relates the history of post-war psychiatry, focusing on deinstitutionalisation, namely the shift from asylum to community in the second part of the twentieth century.After the Second World War, psychiatry and mental health care were reshaped by deinstitutionalisation.