@article{1454001,
      recid = {1454001},
      author = {Freebody, Jane,},
      title = {Work and occupation in French and English mental  hospitals, c.1918-1939 /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
      abstract = {Jane Freebody offers a fresh perspective on life in the  asylum in both England and France which will be of interest  to historians of the institutional everyday as well as  historians of psychiatry. In this fascinating and original  study, she not only focuses on the less examined interwar  period and the importance of patient occupation, but, most  strikingly, takes a comparative analysis that goes beyond  the transnational into more detailed considerations of  place; with an insightful evaluation of the metropolitan  versus the provincial in shaping institutional responses.  Clare Hickman, Reader in Environmental and Medical History,  University of Newcastle, UK. This ambitious exploration of  patient occupation in interwar French and English mental  institutions sheds light on a hitherto under-investigated  aspect of life in the asylum the nature, meaning and  therapeutic implications of work for asylum regimes, staff  and patients. This is an important and original study of  value for anyone interested in twentieth-century psychiatry  and institutional practices. Hilary Marland, Professor of  History, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of  Warwick, UK. This open access book demonstrates that, while  occupation has been used to treat the mentally disordered  since the early nineteenth century, approaches to its use  have varied across time and place. Comparing how work and  occupation were used in French and English mental  institutions between 1918 and 1939, one hundred years after  the heyday of moral therapy, this open access book is an  essential read for those researching the history of mental  health and medicine more generally. Jane Freebody is a  historian of medicine whose research interests revolve  around nineteenth- and twentieth-century psychiatry and  mental health in France and England. She is an Associate  Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK, where she  previously gained her Wellcome Trust-funded doctorate.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1454001},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13105-9},
}