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Cane Hill and ‘Mental Health’ Policy 1882 Open
[As part of the Cane Hill Hospital Centenary celebrations, the Southern Division of the College held its 1982 Annual General Meeting there last June. Dr Alexander Walk was invited to prepare a paper to mark the occasion. Readers of the Bul…
Records, Retrospects and Researches: A Handful of Hospital Histories Open
While sociologists and sociologically-minded historians cast a baleful eye over the global history of mental treatment in the last two centuries, others—consultants, administrators or psychologists, present or past members of psychiatric h…
The Bill in the Lords: Committee Stage Open
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Is medical abdicationism widespread? Open
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The Mental Health (Amendment) Bill Open
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The Mental Health Year Book 1981/82. MIND (National Association for Mental Health). Pp 600. £12.95. Open
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Psychiatry in the 1880s Open
The Annual Meeting of the MPA in 1881 was held at University College, London; it coincided with an International Congress of Medicine and so there were an exceptional number of foreign visitors. A group photograph of members and visitors w…
Parliamentary News Open
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Psychiatry in the 1880s: The President's Assassin and the Queen's Would-be Assassin Open
One hundred years ago, in July 1881, President Garfield met his death by assassination. The trial of the murderer, Guiteau, and the controversy about his mental state, were extensively commented on in the Journal of Mental Science between …
Parliamentary News: (January—April, 1981) Open
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Psychiatry in the 1880s Open
‘Between 1846 and 1879 the produce of a penny income tax has risen from £750,000 to £1,750,000, notwithstanding a much greater exemption; and the inhabited house duty has advanced in about a similar ratio; leaving little doubt that a consi…
Psychiatry at the Science Museum: An Appeal Open
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Parliamentary News Open
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Number Seventeen Open
In my article ‘Arrival in Belgrave Square’ ( News and Notes , June 1975), I promised that a future issue would contain a description of the College's new headquarters and of the way the house was being adapted for our use. It has taken ove…
Parliamentary News Open
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Psychiatry in the 1870s: Kilvert's Mad Folk Open
The Reverend Francis Kilvert, whose famous Diary is currently being featured on television, died a hundred years ago, in September 1879. The Diary contains a number of entries relating to mental disorder, occurring for the most part among …
Psychiatry in the 1870s: Centenary of the Mental After-Care Association Open
The Mental After-Care Association has just celebrated its centenary. An account of the meeting at which it was founded apeared in the Journal of Mental Science for October 1879.
Parliamentary News Open
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Parliamentary News: Amending the Mental Health Act Open
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Parliamentary News to Christmas Recess, 1978 Open
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Annual Meeting, 1978: Preliminary Report Open
As was explained last year, the full Minutes of Annual Meetings are not published in the Bulletin until the following year, generally in the May issue, this having been found most convenient for members who wish to raise any matters arisin…
Parliamentary News (October to December 1977) Open
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Annual Meeting, 1977: A Preliminary Report Open
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More Annual Meetings Recalled Open
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The Handbook for Inceptors and Trainees in Psychiatry Open
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