The first of two series of weekly podcasts on the History of Psychiatry in Britain since the Renaissance, recorded by ISHR’s Rab Houston, has just been launched. This first series covers England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland during the last 500 years
The first of two series of weekly podcasts on the History of Psychiatry in Britain since the Renaissance, recorded by ISHR’s Rab Houston, has just been launched. This first series covers England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland during the last 500 years, looking at continuities and change in how mental illness was understood and treated, and at the radical shifts in systems of caring for those who were either ‘mad’ or mentally handicapped during the last two centuries.
The coverage is broad, ranging from how mental problems were identified and described in the past, through changing ideas about their causes and contemporary therapeutic practices, to important themes such as the reasons be