Table of Contents

1 Planning and Building the Asylum2 The Social Landscape of a Victorian Asylum3 Edwardian Psychiatry and the First World War4 Modernisation, New Therapies and the NHS

About the Author

Judith Pettigrew is a social anthropologist and an occupational therapist with a PhD from the University of Cambridge. She is a senior lecturer in the Department of Clinical Therapies at the University of Limerick.

Rory Reynolds is a systemic family psychotherapist in CAMHS Bedfordshire. Alongside his mental health work, Rory runs a successful theatre company and is the longstanding artistic director of the Queen Mother Theatre in Hitchin.

Sandra Rouse is also a social anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Cambridge.