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Documentary which tells the fascinating and poignant story of the closure of Britain's mental asylums. In the post-war period, 150,000 people were hidden away in 120 of these vast Victorian institu...tions all across the country. Today, most mental patients, or service users as they are now called, live out in the community and the asylums have all but disappeared. Through powerful testimonies from patients, nurses and doctors, the film explores this seismic revolution and what it tells us about society's changing attitudes to mental illness over the last sixty years.
Documentary which tells the fascinating and poignant story of the closure of Britain's mental asylums. In the post-war period, 150,000 people were hidden away in 120 of these vast Victorian institu...tions all across the country. Today, most mental patients, or service users as they are now called, live out in the community and the asylums have all but disappeared. Through powerful testimonies from patients, nurses and doctors, the film explores this seismic revolution and what it tells us about society's changing attitudes to mental illness over the last sixty years.
| First transmission date: | 17-05-2010 |
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| Original broadcast channel: | BBC4 |
| Published: | 2010 |
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| Duration: | 00:59:00 |
| Note: | One of two Open University/BBC programmes about mental health |
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| Producer: | Emma De'ath |
| Narrator: | Tamsin Greig |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sfpvf |
| Subject terms: | Asylums; Mental illness; People with mental disabilities--Institutional care; Psychiatric hospitals |
| Production number: | NINH20546 |
| Available to public: | no |
