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Synopsis
Up Top tells how the mentally ill were treated in the 20th century, focusing on the Mid Wales Mental Hospital, which began as a lunatic asylum and closed when community care took over 100 years later. It was the only UK hospital for psychotic POWs in World War II, including, briefly, the Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess.
This account is based on original archives and oral testimony from staff and patients, and is copiously illustrated. The Mid Wales Mental Hospital was representative of most mental institutions. The book places in a wide context life in a lunatic asylum, the treatment of shell shock in two world wars, the short lived fashion for brain surgery, heavy ECT and deep sleep treatment; then the increasing reliance on drugs and various therapies before the gradual taking over of community care.
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Review
This is an outstanding insight into how badly we have responded to mental health illness. --John Morris
Up Top is a model history of its kind, and a deeply moving one. --John Barnie, New Welsh Review
About the Author
After Cambridge University Hugh joined the BBC and after 26 years ended his career there as Managing Editor of BBC TV Documentaries. He was then director of an independent film company before working and teaching about film documentaries in Europe and India. He has won a BAFTA and been awarded a Chevalier d Ordre des Artes et des Lettres. He has been a professional writer, mostly of biographies, for the last 15 years. Margaret Percy, who collaborated on Up Top, wrote and presented TV documentaries and was a BBC TV News Presenter in the 1970s. She then ran an adventure travel company.
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- PublisherY Lolfa
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1784615919
- ISBN 13 9781784615918
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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