Voices and stories from the patients of Menston Asylum

Voices from the Asylum is a fascinating investigation of the lives of four women incarcerated in French psychiatric hospitals in the second half of the nineteen

Voices and stories from the patients of Menston Asylum

Through the concepts of the ‘coloniality of asylum’ and ‘solidarity as method’, this book links the question of the state to the one of civil society; i

Everybody loves a good scare at Halloween, but visitors to most “haunted houses” know the most frightening things are just actors in monster makeup and spoo

This book traces the role played by music within asylums, the participation of staff and patients in musical activity, and the links drawn between music, health

One of the most critical developments within `welfare' in recent years, has been the transformation of service users from `passive recipients' to `active subjec

Known as "Old Main," the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica opened in 1843 as the first institution of its kind to treat madness as a medical illness, not a

The meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations, in psychiatric parlance) have been debated for thousands of y

An examination of the emergence of the legal regime in the United Kingdom addressing refugees and asylum seekers.