Slow practices of remembering a mental health day centre

Calabria, V ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8823-8192, 2025. Slow practices of remembering a mental health day centre. Memory Studies. ISSN 1750-6980 (Forthcoming)

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Abstract

Despite scholars debating the contested nature of the history of mental healthcare in the Western world for decades, the notion of steady progress is still a common way of thinking about this history. In Britain, the shift from institutional to community care has seen little investment in long-term therapeutic services, harming those with chronic mental illness. The article draws on a heritage project that deliberately implemented slow memory-making processes through the application of participatory art-based methodologies to make visible the neglected memories of mental health service users who have relied on a mental health day centre in England for over half a century. Slow memory work unearthed counter-memories that challenge dominant contemporary mental healthcare policy and practice, such as the modernisation of mental health services that individualise care at the expense of communal services.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Memory Studies
Creators:	Calabria, V.
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Date:	1 December 2025
ISSN:	1750-6980
Identifiers:	Number Type 2554177 Other
Rights:	Accepted for publication in Memory Studies. Reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Borcherds
Date Added:	08 Jan 2026 17:18
Last Modified:	08 Jan 2026 17:18
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/54991

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