A deficient solution

Article Abstract:

Victorian mental handicap hospitals continue to have a negative impact on social consciousness and contemporary services. The level of care offered by Victorian institutions was low, and hostility towards mentally handicapped people predominated from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. The history of government social policy towards mentally disabled people, including the feeble-minded and female 'moral imbeciles', is also discussed.

History, Psychiatric hospitals

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Learning disabilities (Annie's story; reflections of a former institutionalised mentally handicapped patient) (Interview)

Article Abstract:

Former mentally-handicapped patient Annie Walmsley reflects on her life in mental handicap institutions from 1920, when aged 12, to her discharge in 1989. Annie was one of seven children and was apparently admitted to Brockhall children's unit due to her family's inability to cope. She later went to Calderstones Hospital where she remained until Feb 1989 when she left to live in Preston with three other former patients.

Interview

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How the media has affected the discharge of mentally ill patients

Article Abstract:

A mental health nurse working in a forensic rehabilitation unit is talking about the ways in which the media has affected the discharge of mentally ill patients. Public's negative perception of the people with mental illness is linked with the tone of media reporting in tabloid newspapers and on TV.

United Kingdom, Public affairs, Social aspects, Mentally ill persons, Influence, Communications industry, Mentally ill, Mass media

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