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This article examines Scottish provision of psychiatric care in the 1960s and 1970s. It demonstrates that institutional services did not rapidly disappear across the UK following the Ministry of Health's decision to shut down psychiatric hospitals in 1961, and highlights Scotland's distinctive trajectory. Furthermore, it contends that psychiatric hospitals developed new approaches to assist patients in this era, thereby contributing towards the transformation of post-war psychiatric practice. Connecting a discussion of policy with an analysis of provision, it examines the Department of Health for Scotland's cautious response to the Ministry's embrace of deinstitutionalization, before analysing Glasgow's psychiatric provision in the 1970s. At this point the city boasted virtually no community-based services, and relied heavily on its under-resourced and overburdened hospitals. Closer analysis dispels any impression of stagnation, revealing how ideologies of deinstitutionalization transformed institutional care.
Author(s): Long V
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: History of Psychiatry
Year: 2017
Volume: 28
Issue: 1
Pages: 115-128
Print publication date: 01/03/2017
Online publication date: 21/10/2016
Acceptance date: 15/08/2016
Date deposited: 28/03/2018
ISSN (print): 0957-154X
ISSN (electronic): 1740-2360
Publisher: Sage
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X16673025
DOI: 10.1177/0957154X16673025
PubMed id: 27770055
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