Unfortunate Folk: Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863-1992

by Otago University Press, Jane Thomson (Editor)

Overview

From electro-convulsive therapy to epilepsy, from criminal lunacy to community care, Unfortunate Folks: Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863-1992, opens windows on to the history of mental health treatment in New Zealand.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781877276095
Publisher:	Otago University Press
Publication date:	09/01/2001
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Barbara Brookes is an associate professor in the history department, University of Otago. One of her research interests is the history of medicine and her work in this field has acted as a catalyst for students. She has supervised several of the students whose work appears in this book. Jane Thomson is an independent editor who worked with Michael Reilly on another volume of student essays, When the Waves Rolled in Upon Us: Essays in Nineteenth-Centry Maori History, also published by University of Otago Press.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	5
	Abbreviations	6
	Notes on Contributors	7
	Introduction	9
Part 1	Founding Years in Otago Institutions
1	Dunedin Lunatic Asylum, 1863-1876	21
2	Truby King and Seacliff, 1889-1907	35
3	Taming the Brain Storms	49
4	'Criminal Lunacy' 1882-1912	66
5	Ashburn Hall, 1882-1904	83
6	Seacliff and Ashburn Hall Compared, 1882-1911	104
Part 2	Into the Modern Era in Otago
7	Ashburn Hall, 1905-1947	115
8	The Otekaieke Special School for Boys, 1908-1950	123
9	Psychiatry and Seacliff, 1912-1948	137
10	'Unfortunate Folk': A Study of the Social Context of Committal to Seacliff 1928-1937	153
11	Cherry Farm, 1952-1992: Social and Economic Forces in the Evolution of Mental Health Care in Otago	168
Part 3	Some New Zealand Perspectives
12	Scientific Pastors: The Professionalisation of Psychiatry in New Zealand 1877-1920	185
13	'Production not Reproduction': The Problem of Mental Defect in New Zealand 1920-1935	200
14	Women Psychiatrists in New Zealand, 1900-1990: An Oral History	215
15	A Separate World? The Social Position of the Mentally Ill, 1945-1955	235
	Notes	255
	Index	297