TY - BOOK ID - 78492013 TI - Managing madness AU - Dyck, Erika AU - Deighton, Alex PY - 2017 SN - 0887555373 0887555357 9780887555374 0887557953 9780887555350 9780887557958 0887557953 9780887557958 PB - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada DB - UniCat KW - Mental health services KW - Mentally ill KW - Psychiatric hospitals KW - Hospitals KW - Insane asylums KW - Mental hospitals KW - Mental illness KW - Mental institutions KW - Psychiatry in general hospitals KW - Asylums KW - Mental health facilities KW - Specialty hospitals KW - Insane KW - Mental patients KW - Mentally disordered KW - Sick KW - People with mental disabilities KW - Behavioral health care KW - Mental health care KW - Psychiatric care KW - Psychiatric services KW - Medical care KW - History. KW - Institutional care KW - Patients KW - Saskatchewan Hospital (Weyburn, Sask.) KW - Weyburn Mental Hospital (Weyburn, Sask.) KW - Saskatchewan Mental Hospital (Weyburn, Sask.) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78492013 AB - "The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and community care in Canada. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the twentieth century. Built in 1921, the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was billed as the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its kind in the British Commonwealth. A decade later, the Canadian Committee for Mental Hygiene cited it as one of the worst institutions in the country, largely due to extreme overcrowding. In the 1950s, the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital again attracted international attention for engaging in controversial therapeutic interventions, including treatments using LSD. In the 1960s, sweeping health care reforms took hold in the province and mental health institutions underwent dramatic changes as they began moving patients into communities. As the patient and staff population shrank, the once palatial building fell into disrepair, the asylum's expansive farmland fell out of cultivation, and mental health services folded into a complicated web of social and correctional services. Managing Madness examines the Weyburn Mental Hospital, the people it housed, struggled to understand, help, or even tried to change, and the ever-shifting understanding of mental health."-- ER -