History of the Human Sciences

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Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivors alike. A loose ‘recovery movement’ with radical reformist aims, which emerged across Britain ...

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This article argues for the importance of studying life after mental illness. A significant proportion of people who experience mental illness recover, but the experience continues to affect their lives. Historical examination of the birth of mental after-...

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This article explores the pioneering rehabilitative work of the Q Camps Committee's Hawkspur Camp (1936–1941), which supported young men deemed at risk of delinquency. It argues that understanding Hawkspur can reshape perspectives on the development of ...

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Roffey Park Rehabilitation Centre, which opened in 1943, offered short-term psychiatric treatment for workers suffering from ‘industrial neurosis’. In 1947, Roffey Park opened a training institute to instruct doctors, managers, and trade unionists in ...

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This article offers historical context for psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck's creation of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), a widely celebrated patient-rated depression scale. Beck built the BDI in the late 1950s as part of a large psychoanalytic depression ...

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This article uses the early history of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) as a lens to draw out the epistemic and ethical-political stakes of rehabilitation as an overarching aim of addiction treatment in the United States. It does so by bringing into ...

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In modern mental health care, ‘recovery’ does not necessarily mean the same thing for clinicians, service users, and survivor groups. This divergence is especially stark where self-injury is concerned. For clinicians, recovery often refers to cessation of ...