Title: 'Unfortunate folk' :
Authors: Brookes, Barbara L.; Thomson, Jane,; University of Otago.
Date: 2001
Publisher: University of Otago Press,
Physical description: 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: R
Abstract: This book consists of essays about the treatment of the mentally ill, researched and written by postgraduate students of the University of Otago's History department. It discusses how the 'unfortunate folk' deemed to be 'foreigners' in the world of reason have been treated in one province of New Zealand since the founding of the Dunedin Lunatic Asylum in 1863, and looks at wider New Zealand patterns, with the creation of a specialty within medicine directed specifically towards mental health.
Contents: Founding years in Otago institutions (Dunedin Lunatic Asylum, 1863-1876 / Jeremy Bloomfield (1979) ; Truby King and Seacliff, 1889-1907 / Cheryl Caldwell (1984) ; Taming the brain storms / Alexandra Reed (1993) ; 'Criminal lunacy' 1882-1912 / Jane Adams (2000) ; Ashburn Hall, 1882-1904 / Alan Somerville (1996) ; Seacliff and Ashburn Hall compared, 1882-1911 / Caroline Hubbard (1977)) -- Into the modern era in Otago (Ashburn Hall, 1905-1947 / Judith Clare Medlicott (1972) ; The Otekaieke Special School for boys, 1908-1950 / Sandy Bardsley (1991) ; Psychiatry and Seacliff, 1912-1948 / Susan Fennell (1981) ; 'Unfortunate folk' : a study of the social context of committal to Seacliff 1928-1937 / Judith Holloway (1991) ; Cherry Farm, 1952-1992 : social and economic forces in the evolution of mental health care in Otago / Jeff Kavanagh (1996) Some New Zealand perspectives (Scientific pastors : the professionalisation of psychiatry in New Zealand 1877-1920 / Matthew Philp (1996) ; 'Production not reproduction' : the problem of mental defect in New Zealand 1920-1935 / Stephen Robertson (1989) ; Women psychiatrists in New Zealand, 1900-1990 : an oral history / Paula Cody (1996) ; A separate world? The social position of the mentally ill, 1945-1955 / Susannah Grant (1998).
Subject headings (LCSH): Mental health facilities--New Zealand--History.; Mental health--New Zealand--History.; Mental illness--New Zealand--Treatment--History.; Mental illness--Treatment--New Zealand--History.; Mentally ill--Institutional care--New Zealand--Otago (Provincial District)--History.; Psychiatric hospitals--New Zealand--Otago (Provincial District)--History.