Deinstitutionalisation and After

Despo Kritsotaki is a historian of mental health and healthcare in twentieth-century Greece.Vicky Long is Senior Lecturer in History at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.Matthew Smith is Professor of Health History at the University of Strathclyde, UK.

• Introduction. Despo Kritsotaki, Vicky Long and Matthew Smith, Deinstitutionalisation and the Pathways of Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World.- Part I. Understanding deinstitutionalisation: culture, ideology and historiography.- Chapter 1. John Burnham, Deinstitutionalisation and the great sociocultural shift to consumer culture.- Chapter 2. Alexander Dunst, ‘All the Fits That’s News to Print’: Deinstitutionalisation and Anti-Psychiatric Movement Magazines in the United States, 1970-1986.- Chapter 3. Megan Davies and Erika Dyck with Leslie Baker, Lanny Beckman, Geertje Boschma, Chris Dooley, Kathleen Kendall, Eugene LeBlanc, Robert Menzies, Marina Morrow, Diane Purvey, Nérée St-Amand, Marie-Claude Thifault, Jayne Whyte, Victor Willis, After the Asylum in Canada: Surviving Deinstitutionalisation and Revising History.- Part II. Designing and implementing psychiatric reform: experiments, opportunities and oppositions.- Chapter 4. Christof Beyer, ‘Islands of reform’. Early transformation of the mental health service in Lower Saxony, Germany in the 1960s.- Chapter 5. Nicolas Henckes, French deinstitutionalisation or the irony of success. Psychiatrists, the State and the transformation of the French psychiatric system, 1945-2010.- Chapter 6. Valerie Harrington, Integration in a divided world: Salford Community Mental Health Services 1948-1974.- Chapter 7. Despo Kritsotaki, Initiating deinstitutionalisation: Early attempts of mental health care reform in Greece, 1950s-1970s.- Part III. New conceptualisations of therapy and space.- Chapter 8. John Stewart, Child Guidance and Deinstitutionalisation in Post-War Britain.- Chapter 9. Cheryl McGeachan “Do you have a frog to guide you?”: Exploring the ‘asylum’ spaces of R.D. Laing.- Part IV. After Deinstitutionalisation: experiences, challenges and legacies.- Chapter 10. Elena Trivelli, The Basaglian Legacy in Italian Psychiatry: Remembering, Myth-making, and Crystallising.- Chapter 11. Howard Padwa, Marcia Meldrum, Jack R. Friedman and Joel T. Braslow, A mental health system in recovery. The era of deinstitutionalisation in California.- Chapter 12. Roslyn Burge, Callan Park in transition.