A place for lost souls : a nurse's stories of hope and despair from a 1980s psychiatric hospital /
Black, Belinda.
A place for lost souls : a nurse's stories of hope and despair from a 1980s psychiatric hospital / Belinda Black. - London : Quercus, 2024. - 304 pages ; 20 cm.
Belinda Black was just seventeen years old when she began working as a nursing assistant at the large and foreboding 'madhouse', as it was then known to the villagers of her hometown in the north of England. Following in the footsteps of her mother, she went on to spend a decade caring for patients with widely varying mental health problems, all locked up together and out of view of society. This book provides a shocking but ultimately life-affirming account of a unique and noble profession, told from the frontlines.
9781529429688 (pbk.) : 8.99 1529429684 (pbk.) : 8.99
Black, Belinda.
Mental health services--History.--England
Mentally ill--Care--History.--England
Health and Fitness.
Health and Wellbeing.
United Kingdom, Great Britain.
c 1970 to c 1979.
Memoirs.
History.
Social & cultural history.
RA790.7.G72
362.2092 BLA
A place for lost souls : a nurse's stories of hope and despair from a 1980s psychiatric hospital / Belinda Black. - London : Quercus, 2024. - 304 pages ; 20 cm.
Belinda Black was just seventeen years old when she began working as a nursing assistant at the large and foreboding 'madhouse', as it was then known to the villagers of her hometown in the north of England. Following in the footsteps of her mother, she went on to spend a decade caring for patients with widely varying mental health problems, all locked up together and out of view of society. This book provides a shocking but ultimately life-affirming account of a unique and noble profession, told from the frontlines.
9781529429688 (pbk.) : 8.99 1529429684 (pbk.) : 8.99
Black, Belinda.
Mental health services--History.--England
Mentally ill--Care--History.--England
Health and Fitness.
Health and Wellbeing.
United Kingdom, Great Britain.
c 1970 to c 1979.
Memoirs.
History.
Social & cultural history.
RA790.7.G72
362.2092 BLA