A place for lost souls /
by Black, Belinda.
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BookPublisher: London : Quercus, 2023Description: 352 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781529429657 (hbk.) :; 152942965X (hbk.) :.Classification number: 362.2092 BLASubject(s): Black, Belinda | Mental health services -- England -- History | Mentally ill -- Care -- England -- History | Health and Fitness | Health and Wellbeing | Memoirs | Social & cultural history | Social services & welfare, criminology | Care of the mentally ill | Psychiatric nursingSummary: 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.
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Crosby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 362.2092 BLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 19/06/2024 | 003114819X |
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| 362.2 GOR No such thing as normal / | 362.2042 GEL Counselling children: | 362.2042 GOL Social work and mental health | 362.2092 BLA A place for lost souls / | 362.2092 GLA Can I let you go? : a heartbreaking true story of love, loss and moving on / | 362.2094 POR Madmen: a social history of madhouses, mad-doctors & lunatics | 362.2094 WAD A Straightforward guide to to the law and practice of mental health in the United Kingdom |
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.
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