It is hard today to comprehend the total change that has taken place in the way mental health services are organised, compared with 50 years ago. In the 1960s and into the 1970s, admission to a large mental hospital was the norm for people considered to have a severe ‘mental illness’, whether their condition was assumed to be ‘neurotic’ or ‘psychotic’.
Most of these asylums had been built in Victorian times when the populations of the cities had exploded. Located on the outskirts of towns and cities, they offered the peace of large grounds and gardens where patients could take restorative walks in nonpolluted air.
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