Continuing our recent
reflections on how things in mental health have changed Richard Hallam and Michael Bender
take the long view of schizophrenia
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| The cuckoo's nests have closed. What else has changed in mental health? |
The theme
of this year’s World
Mental Health Day on 10th October is Living
with Schizophrenia. For those of us of a certain age, and with a historical
bent, it’s also an opportunity to compare services now with those provided when we started out in
the 1960s. Recently we’ve had the privilege of editing the diaries and
letters of a young man, David, a patient in the mental health system five
decades ago. The resulting book offers, we think,
a window into the social attitudes of the time and the way mental health
problems were treated.
