When he was twenty-four years old, Clifford Whittingham Beers was interred in a mental asylum. He remained there for three years, battling his mental illness. I
Gerald N. Grob's Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 has become a classic of American social history. Here the author continues his investigat
Building on his extensive research, the author explores the key social movements and organisations who have contested psychiatry and mental health in the UK bet