Managing madness : Weyburn Mental Hospital and the transformation of psychiatric care in Canada / Erika Dyck and Alexander Deighton ; with Hugh Lafave, John Elias, Gary Gerber, Alexander Dyck, John Mills, and Tracey Mitchell.

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Dyck, Erika [author.]

Contributor(s):

Deighton, Alex [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press, [2017]Copyright date: ß2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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ISBN:

0887555373
9780887555374
0887557953
9780887557958

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Weyburn Mental Hospital and the transformation of psychiatric care in Canada

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362.2/1097124 23

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RC448.S23 W49 2017eb

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WM 11 DC2

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Photographs; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Who Has Seen the Asylum; Chapter 1: Optimism and Celebration; Chapter 2: Experiencing the Asylum; Chapter 3: False Starts; Photo Section 1; Chapter 4: Socializing Mental Health Care; Chapter 5: Pills, Politics, and Experiments of All Kinds; Chapter 6: Dissolving the Walls; Chapter 7: Hospital Diasporas; Photo Section 2; Chapter 8: Consumption and Survival; Conclusion: Legacies; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Illustration Credits; Index.

Summary: "The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and community care in Canada. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the twentieth century. Built in 1921, the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was billed as the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its kind in the British Commonwealth. A decade later, the Canadian Committee for Mental Hygiene cited it as one of the worst institutions in the country, largely due to extreme overcrowding. In the 1950s, the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital again attracted international attention for engaging in controversial therapeutic interventions, including treatments using LSD. In the 1960s, sweeping health care reforms took hold in the province and mental health institutions underwent dramatic changes as they began moving patients into communities. As the patient and staff population shrank, the once palatial building fell into disrepair, the asylum's expansive farmland fell out of cultivation, and mental health services folded into a complicated web of social and correctional services. Managing Madness examines the Weyburn Mental Hospital, the people it housed, struggled to understand, help, or even tried to change, and the ever-shifting understanding of mental health."-- Provided by publisher

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-305) and index.

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"The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and community care in Canada. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the twentieth century. Built in 1921, the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was billed as the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its kind in the British Commonwealth. A decade later, the Canadian Committee for Mental Hygiene cited it as one of the worst institutions in the country, largely due to extreme overcrowding. In the 1950s, the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital again attracted international attention for engaging in controversial therapeutic interventions, including treatments using LSD. In the 1960s, sweeping health care reforms took hold in the province and mental health institutions underwent dramatic changes as they began moving patients into communities. As the patient and staff population shrank, the once palatial building fell into disrepair, the asylum's expansive farmland fell out of cultivation, and mental health services folded into a complicated web of social and correctional services. Managing Madness examines the Weyburn Mental Hospital, the people it housed, struggled to understand, help, or even tried to change, and the ever-shifting understanding of mental health."-- Provided by publisher

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