The ambivalent role of the institution in the history of child and adolescent psychiatry: a case study of the Hawthorn Centre in Michigan, USA
Recommended Citation
Cesaro R, and Hirshbein L. The ambivalent role of the institution in the history of child and adolescent psychiatry: a case study of the Hawthorn Centre in Michigan, USA. Hist Psychiatry 2020; Epub ahead of print.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-16-2020
Publication Title
History of psychiatry
Abstract
Historians have examined the role of psychiatric institutions in the USA and addressed whether this form of care helped or harmed patients (depending on the perspective of the time period, historical actors, and historians). But the story for children's mental institutions was different. At the time when adult institutions were in decline, children's mental hospitals were expanding. Parents and advocates clamoured for more beds and more services. The decrease in facilities for children was more due to economic factors than ideological opposition. This paper explores a case study of a hospital in Michigan as a window into the different characteristics of the discussion of psychiatric care for children.
PubMed ID
32668976
ePublication
ePub ahead of print
First Page
957154
Last Page
957154
