Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century, 1st ed. 2020
In and Beyond the Asylum
Mental Health in Historical Perspective Series

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This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ?asylum and after? paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional walls and consider mental health through the lenses of institutions, policy, nomenclature, art, lived experience, and popular culture. The book adopts an international scope covering the historical experiences of Britain, Ireland, and North America. In accordance with this broad approach, contributions to the volume span academic fields such as history, arts, literary studies, sociology, and psychology, mirroring the diversity of the subject matter. 

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Chapter 1: Introduction to Healthy Minds: Mental Health Practice and Perception in the Twentieth Century: Steven J. Taylor and Alice Brumby.- Chapter 2: ‘The Holy War against Alcohol’: Alcoholism, Medicine and Psychiatry in Ireland, c. 1890-1921: Alice Mauger.- Chapter 3: Social Stigma, Stress, and Enforced Transition in Specialist Epilepsy Services 1905-1965: Rachel Hewitt.- Chapter 4: Planning for the Future: Special Education and the creation of ‘Healthy Minds’: Steven J. Taylor.- Chapter 5: Healthy Minds and Intellectual Disability: Jan Walmsley.- Chapter 6: Sheltered Employment and Mental Health in Britain: Remploy c.1945-81: Andrew Holroyde.- Chapter 7: Autism in the 20th Century: An Evolution of a Controversial Condition: Michelle O’Reilly, Jessica Lester and Nikki Kiyimba.- Chapter 8: Challenging Psychiatric Classification: Healthy Autistic Diversity the Neurodiversity Movement: Erika Dyck and Ginny Russell.- Chapter 9: The National Schizophrenia Fellowship: Charity, Caregiving and Strategies of Coping, 1960-1980: Alice Brumby.- Chapter 10: ‘(Un)healthy Minds’ and Visual and Tactile Arts, c.1900-1950: Imogen Wiltshire.- Chapter 11: The Myth of Dream-hacking and "Inner Space" in Science Fiction, 1948–2010: Rob Mayo.-


Steven J. Taylor is a Wellcome Trust ISSF Early Career Fellow in the History of Poverty and Medicine at the University of Leicester, UK. His research explores ideas and constructions of childhood health, lay and professional diagnoses, ability and disability, and institutional care. His first monograph, Beyond the Asylum: Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.  

Alice Brumby is a Lecturer at York St John University, UK. Her research interests focus upon twentieth century mental health care and the role of the community, families and patients in accessing care and treatment. She has published work in First World War Studies and History Today amongst other publications.



Shows how conceptualisations of modernity in the twentieth century were linked with maintaining individual and collective mental health

Looks beyond the walls of the asylum to the new spaces and centres offered for mental health treatment and support

This open access book contributes to the growing body of work on the twentieth-century history of psychiatry