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This book offers the first systematic critical appraisal of the uses of work and work therapy in psychiatric institutions across the globe, from the late eighteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Contributors explore the daily routine in psychiatric institutions and ask whether work was therapy, part of a regime of punishment or a means of exploiting free labour. By focusing on mental patients' day-to-day life in closed institutions, the authors fill a gap in the history of psychiatric regimes. The geographical scope is wide, ranging from Northern America to Japan, India and Western as well as Eastern Europe, and the authors engage with broad historical questions, such as the impact of colonialism and communism and the effect of the World Wars. Work, psychiatry and society presents an alternative history of the emergence of occupational therapy and will be of interest not only to academics in the fields of history and sociology but also to health professionals.
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Work, psychiatry and society, c. 1750-2015 Edited by WALTRAUD ERNST Manchester University Press 68/12425 Copyright © Manchester University Press 2016 While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in indi vidual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher. Published by Manchester University Press Altrincham Street, Manchester Ml 7)A www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for ISBN 9780 7190 9769 0 hardback ISBN 9781 5261 2709 9 paperback First published 2016 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third- party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire Printed in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow Contents List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Therapy and empowerment, coercion and punishment. Historical and contemporary perspectives on work, psychiatry and society Waltraud Ernst 1 The role of work in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century treatises on moral treatment in France, Tuscany and Britain Jane Freebody vii ix xiii 1 31 2 Therapeutic work and mental illness in America, c. 1830-1970 Ben Harris 55 3 Travails of madness: New Jersey, 1800-70 James Moran 77 4 From blasting powder to tomato pickles: Patient work at the provincial mental hospitals in British Columbia, Canada, 1885-1920 Kathryn McKay 5 6 99 ‘Useful both to the patients as well as to the State*: Patient work in colonial mental hospitals in South Asia, c. 1818-1948 Waltraud Ernst 117 ‘A powerful agent in their recovery’: Work as treatment in British West Indian lunatic asylums, 1860-1910 Leonard Smith 142 7 Work and activity in mental hospitals in modern Japan, c. 1868-2000 Akira Hashimoto 163 8 Patient work and family care at Iwakura, Japan, c. 1799-1970 Osamu Nakamura 182 9 Work and occupation in Romanian psychiatry, c. 1838-1945 Valentin-Veron Toma 194 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Betwee