A place for lost souls : a nurse's stories of hope and despair from a 1980s psychiatric hospital /
by Black, Belinda.
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BookPublisher: London : Quercus, 2024Description: 304 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781529429688 (pbk.) :; 1529429684 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 362.2092 BLASubject(s): Black, Belinda | Mental health services -- England -- History | Mentally ill -- Care -- England -- History | Health and Fitness | Health and Wellbeing | United Kingdom, Great Britain | c 1970 to c 1979 | Memoirs | History | Social & cultural historySummary: 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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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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