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'The place was a home from home' : identity and belonging in the English cottage home for convalescing mental patients, 1910-1939
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Soanes, Stephen (2013) 'The place was a home from home' : identity and belonging in the English cottage home for convalescing mental patients, 1910-1939. In: Hamlett, Jane and Hoskins, Lesley and Preston, Rebecca, (eds.) Residential Institutions in Braitin, 1725-1970. Perspectives in Economic and Social History (Number 27). London and Brookfield, VT: Pickering and Chatto, pp. 109-123. ISBN 9781848933668 (In Press)
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Abstract
This chapter pays attention to one psychiatric institution that lay beyond the asylum: the cottage home for convalescents. In contrast to a binary relationship between hospital and home, particularly evident in a literature that still focuses on the nineteenth century, the Mental After-Care Association's archive suggests that cottage homes in the twentieth century may have served as clearing houses for the insane within a more complex network of institutional care. In turn, the chapter responds to appeals for more investigation into patients' emotional responses. Although such responses are opaque and often fleeting, the evidence surveyed points to the potential importance of personal circumstance to patients' interpretations of their identity and belonging within these halfway-houses.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
| Series Name: | Perspectives in Economic and Social History | ||||
| Publisher: | Pickering and Chatto | ||||
| Place of Publication: | London and Brookfield, VT | ||||
| ISBN: | 9781848933668 | ||||
| Book Title: | Residential Institutions in Braitin, 1725-1970 | ||||
| Editor: | Hamlett, Jane and Hoskins, Lesley and Preston, Rebecca | ||||
| Official Date: | June 2013 | ||||
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| Number: | Number 27 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 256 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 109-123 | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||
| Funder: | Wellcome Trust (PhD), 2007-2011, IAS Early Career Fellowship, University of Warwick, 2011 | ||||
| Grant number: | WT083347AIA |
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