"There was an awful lot that was good and that was necessary": the hidden heritage of the old state mental hospitals

Calabria, V. ORCID: 0000-0001-8823-8192, 2022. "There was an awful lot that was good and that was necessary": the hidden heritage of the old state mental hospitals. In: E. Punzi, C. Wächter and C. Singer, eds., Narrating the heritage of psychiatry: material and immaterial heritage. Brill. ISBN 9789004519831 (Forthcoming)

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Abstract

The prevailing perception of the now-closed old state mental hospitals as outmoded and undesirable has obscured the emotional connections that some former patients and retired staff have for these sites. It has had the effect of effacing the personal histories of mental health service users and workers who hold positive memories of the care provided therein. Drawing on oral histories of former patients and retired staff and community collections of hospital artefacts, this chapter aims to explore the implications of this enforced amnesia for the historiography of mental healthcare and memory work in the context of heritage. It explores what constitutes the preservation of the heritage of now defunct psychiatric institutions and the implications this raises for the remembrance of their lost communities.

Item Type:	Chapter in book
Creators:	Calabria, V.
Publisher:	Brill
Date:	28 September 2022
ISBN:	9789004519831
Identifiers:	Number Type 1438730 Other
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	15 May 2024 14:23
Last Modified:	15 May 2024 15:07
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/51439

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