EXTRA ASYLUM PSYCHIATRY

Disappearing the asylum: Modernizing psychiatry and generating manpower in India.

In recent years, the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH) and the World Health Organization have worked closely with governments across the global South to redress major treatment gaps to improve access to mental health services. In India, recent reforms include transforming public psychiatric institutions from sites of treatment to research and training institutes, known as "Centres of Exc...

Commentary: the role of forensic psychiatry in the asylum process.

There has been a substantial growth of law school clinics and law firms doing pro bono work to aid individuals seeking asylum in the United States. At the same time, the federal government has been placing in detention more individuals who are here illegally. The number of immigration cases awaiting resolution has surpassed 200,000. The absence of a clear U.S. immigration policy contributes to ...

Asylum seekers and refugees - how should psychiatry respond?

The anatomy of madness: essays in the history of psychiatry, vol. 3, The asylum and its psychiatry

As Fontenelle observed in his eloge of Newton, the great man had not only not made his case, but had said of the unknown cause of gravity and its manifest effects precisely what the peripatetics said of occult qualities. These comments are offered as a gesture against the fad that ascribes to "magic" or "the magical tradition" whatever in the natural philosophy of the scientific revolution is n...

‘No “Sane” Person Would Have Any Idea’: Patients’ Involvement in Late Nineteenth-century British Asylum Psychiatry

In his 1895 textbook, Mental Physiology, Bethlem Royal Hospital physician Theo Hyslop acknowledged the assistance of three fellow hospital residents. One was a junior colleague. The other two were both patients: Walter Abraham Haigh and Henry Francis Harding. Haigh was also thanked in former superintendent George Savage's book Insanity and Allied Neuroses (1884). In neither instance were the pa...