TY  - BOOK
AU  - Black,Belinda
TI  - A place for lost souls: a nurse's stories of hope and despair from a 1980s psychiatric hospital 
SN  - 9781529429688 (pbk.) :
AV  - RA790.7.G72 
U1  - 362.2092 BLA 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - London
PB  - Quercus
KW  - Black, Belinda.
KW  - Mental health services
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - Mentally ill
KW  - Care
KW  - Health and Fitness
KW  - eflch
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - United Kingdom, Great Britain
KW  - thema
KW  - c 1970 to c 1979
KW  - Memoirs
KW  - Social & cultural history
N2  - 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
ER  -