Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital 1913-1997 Book

	List of illustrations
	List of tables
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction: space, time and madness	1
	A place for madness	3
	The ideal of an asylum	9
	Putting the ideal into practice	12
	Fears of pollution	21
	Place and social change	25
2	At the gate	29
	Boards and boundaries	30
	Patients' entries and exits: certification, sectioning	34
	Staff entries and exits	47
3	The corridor of power	59
	The medical superintendent: the early years	59
	The middle years	63
	The 1960s: Russell Barton	67
	The end of an era	89
4	The great divide	98
	Male and female nurses	112
	Female and male psychiatrists	120
5	On the female side	127
	Admissions and reasons for coming to Severalls	128
	Clothing and identity	134
	Ward routines and experiences	137
	Work	145
	Friendships and relationships	153
6	On the male side	157
	The engineer's yard and the farms	158
	Admissions and escapes	164
	Ward life and routine	167
	Sport and music	173
	Training and working as an attendant/male nurse	177
	The effects of war and the post-war era	181
7	The space and pace of treatments	189
	Early treatments	191
	Somatic treatments	195
	Leucotomies and experiments	203
	A pharmacological revolution?	210
	Changing attitudes	213
8	Conclusion	219
	Notes	224
	Bibliography	232
	Index	237