Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Inspecting Great Britain: German Psychiatrists' Views of British Asylums in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
- 2 Permeating National Boundaries: European and American Influences on the Emergence of “Medico-Pedagogy” in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
- 3 Organizing Psychiatric Research in Munich (1903–1925): A Psychiatric Zoon Politicon between State Bureaucracy and American Philanthropy
- 4 Germany and the Making of “English” Psychiatry: The Maudsley Hospital, 1908–1939
- 5 Patterns in Transmitting German Psychiatry to the United States: Smith Ely Jelliffe and the Impact of World War I
- 6 “Beyond the Clinical Frontiers”: The American Mental Hygiene Movement, 1910–1945
- 7 Mental Hygiene in Britain during the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Limits of International Influence
- 8 Psychiatry in Munich and Yale, ca. 1920–1935: Mutual Perceptions and Relations, and the Case of Eugen Kahn (1887–1973)
- 9 Explorations of Scottish, German, and American Psychiatry: The Work of Helen Boyle and Isabel Hutton in the Treatment of Noncertifiable Mental Disorders in England, 1899–1939
- 10 Welsh Psychiatry during the Interwar Years, and the Impact of American and German Inspirations and Resources
- 11 Alien Psychiatrists: The British Assimilation of Psychiatric Refugees, 1930–1950
- Selected Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
10 - Welsh Psychiatry during the Interwar Years, and the Impact of American and German Inspirations and Resources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Inspecting Great Britain: German Psychiatrists' Views of British Asylums in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
- 2 Permeating National Boundaries: European and American Influences on the Emergence of “Medico-Pedagogy” in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
- 3 Organizing Psychiatric Research in Munich (1903–1925): A Psychiatric Zoon Politicon between State Bureaucracy and American Philanthropy
- 4 Germany and the Making of “English” Psychiatry: The Maudsley Hospital, 1908–1939
- 5 Patterns in Transmitting German Psychiatry to the United States: Smith Ely Jelliffe and the Impact of World War I
- 6 “Beyond the Clinical Frontiers”: The American Mental Hygiene Movement, 1910–1945
- 7 Mental Hygiene in Britain during the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Limits of International Influence
- 8 Psychiatry in Munich and Yale, ca. 1920–1935: Mutual Perceptions and Relations, and the Case of Eugen Kahn (1887–1973)
- 9 Explorations of Scottish, German, and American Psychiatry: The Work of Helen Boyle and Isabel Hutton in the Treatment of Noncertifiable Mental Disorders in England, 1899–1939
- 10 Welsh Psychiatry during the Interwar Years, and the Impact of American and German Inspirations and Resources
- 11 Alien Psychiatrists: The British Assimilation of Psychiatric Refugees, 1930–1950
- Selected Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
Summary
In assessing German and American influences on “British” psychiatry in the interwar years it is important to recognize that the British Isles comprise four nations: England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Scotland and Ireland operated under separate legislative and administrative structures regarding care of the insane, but England and Wales were under one and the same jurisdiction. Although there were significant differences between England and Wales in terms of history, culture, language, economy, and social structure, both were subject to the same laws and administration for poor law and lunacy. Therefore it is difficult to discuss Welsh psychiatry as a distinct entity. However, a focus on changing provisions and treatments for the mentally ill in Wales during the interwar years does make it possible to explore the influence of German and American psychiatry at a sub-national level and counterbalances the tendency of much medical historiography to focus on the English metropolis and on unrepresentative institutions such as the Maudsley Hospital.
The Cardiff City Mental Hospital
By the time of the First World War there were five county or joint-counties asylums in Wales, most of them dating from the middle of the nineteenth century. These Victorian-style asylums had accumulated large populations of chronic, long-stay patients, making change and modernization difficult to implement, so that efforts were concentrated on ensuring basic standards of care and provision.
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- International Relations in PsychiatryBritain, Germany, and the United States to World War II, pp. 197 - 217Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010