| Author | : Barbara Taylor |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2015-04-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 022627392X |
In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor's world contracted around her illness. Eventually, she was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institutions, the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in London
| Author | : Barbara Taylor |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2015-04-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 022627408X |
Blending personal memoir with social history, the author shares an “exquisitely written and provocative” account of mental illness and care (Sunday Times, UK). In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. Eventually, her struggles led her to be admitted to the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in North London—once known as the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum. The Last Asylum is a candid account of her time there, and probing look at the evolution of mental health treatment. Taylor was admitted to Friern in 1988, not long before England’s asylum system began to undergo dramatic change. The 1990s saw the old asylums shuttered, their patients left to navigate a perpetually overcrowded and underfunded mental health system. But Taylor contends that the emptying of the asylums also marked a bigger loss—a loss of community. Taylor credits her own recovery to the help of a steadfast psychoanalyst and a circle of friends, including Magda, her manic-depressive roommate, and Fiona, who shared stories of her boyfriend, the “Spaceman”. The support and trust of that network was crucial to Taylor’s recovery, offering a respite from the “stranded, homeless feelings” she and others found in the outside world.
| Author | : Jack Steen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2020-08-15 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
They arrive alive. They leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions.My name is Jack Steen. That name shouldn't mean anything to you. Unless you're about to die. And then I'm your bloody guardian angel. I work as a night nurse in the Asylum for the criminally insane. My name is the only real name you'll find in this book. I won't tell you which hospital I work at. I won't tell you the names of those dying.But I won't lie to you.You'll read exactly what I'm told. If you're smart, if you're deranged enough to read between the lines, you'll know who is telling the story.They could be playing their final game with me by messing with my head. Now, maybe they're messing with yours too.Inside this book are 4 confessions: One has an interesting 'appetite'. One was the Ken to his Barbie, and he would do anything to keep her happy.Another is a Nanny, but not one you want watching your kids.The other is the sweetest soul you'd ever meet but you'll have a hard time reading her confession. WARNING: There is swearing in this book. And some stories might be a trigger for something you have a hard time handling. But, these are the confessions of serial killers, mass murderers and such. NOTE: These once were published as novellas. Now they're in a full length novel. Deal with it.Want to read the next set of Confession books? Sign up for my mailing list - I'm told all the real authors have one, so I figured why not
| Author | : Thomas Knowles |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2015-10-06 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1317318552 |
The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in treatment and care. The essays in this collection look at the asylum from the perspective of the place itself – its architecture, funding and purpose – and at the experience of those who were sent there.
| Author | : Andrew Colley |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 111 |
| Release | : 2024-02-27 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1040013163 |
With a focus on the progression and dismantlement of the Asylum system, this book examines key issues around the policy and practice of in-patient mental health provision in the UK, making comparisons with similar services in other parts of the world. Part narrative history and critical analysis, part autoethnography, this unique volume critiques the ethics of early policy decisions which led to the closure of the old Victorian asylums and the advent of care in the community, identifying continuing issues of institutionalisation, containment, and segregation. Drawing parallels with the continuing dilemmas of ‘inclusion’ in other areas of public policy and provision, chapters discuss controversial issues such as the response to the Covid pandemic, the influence of ‘anti-psychiatry’, and the continuing use of electro convulsive therapy. Ultimately, the book makes a vital theoretical and practical contribution to the continuing debate around in-patient mental health care in the 21st century. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers and policy makers in the fields of healthcare policy and history of mental health provision more broadly. Psychiatrists interested in the history of the asylum system in the UK, as well as present day mental health professionals will also find the book of use.
| Author | : Juan Rodulfo |
| Publisher | : Juan Rodulfo |
| Total Pages | : 154 |
| Release | : 2024-09-29 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
What’s wrong with humans? Is there anybody out there in Governments or Power Circles with some sense of respect for the Planet Earth and its Inhabitants?. By the time of publishing this book (November 2018) my Wife and I have known and helped more than hundred Venezuelan families in their Asylum Applications, including one family from Ecuador and other one from Colombia. This same year two “Caravans”, around 7 thousands of low economic resources people forced by Violence of Criminal Organizations, Abusive Governments and Poverty to walk away out of their root spaces in America Central and Mexico in search of saving their lives into the US. In the other side of the Planet Earth, over 100 thousand of people in same or worst conditions of the ones belonging to the “Caravans”, risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea out of Africa to Europe, causing death of large percentages of this population by starvation or drowning. Moving around the Globe Rohingyas are being killed and forced to leave their root spaces by the Myanmar Army.
| Author | : Dr. John Chuol Muon (Ph.D.) |
| Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 18 |
| Release | : 2022-06-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3346659747 |
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - Region: Australia, New Zealand, grade: A, , course: Bachelor degree, language: English, abstract: Globally, the process of migration is a complicated phenomenon involving huge numbers of people moving from one country to another to escape from unstable conditions and to seek better living conditions and opportunities. Recent political upheavals have increased the number of those people who are seeking asylum in far off areas from their land 2. Since last two centuries, Australia has been shaped by immigrants. Immigration plays a key role in Australian population growth and economic development. The political trends have also impacted the country’s immigration policy, especially in the last decade. This paper discusses these political trends and the fluctuations the Australian immigration policy has witnessed in the last ten years due to domestic political trends, multiculturalism policy, two-step immigration policies, the recent asylum seekers issue and globally increased security threats.
| Author | : Royal Institute of British Architects |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 594 |
| Release | : 1901 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
