Outpatients clinics and the 1930 Mental Treatment Act

Patients and practitioners, c.1888–c.1940

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ID19445294
AutoresRob Ellis (Manchester Metropolitan University, autor de correspondencia), R R W Ellis (0000-0002-3225-6807, Manchester Metropolitan University), Alice Brumby (York St John University)
Año2026
Páginas957154X261430341-957154X261430341
Fecha de publicación2026-04-16
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory of Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0957-154X • E-ISSN: 1740-2360
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0957154x261430341
PMID41988662
OpenAlexW7154612789
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas30

This article explores the introduction of the 1930 Mental Treatment Act (MTA) and places it within a longer-term trajectory of the development of acute services. While many historians have considered the apparent novelty of the MTA, they have tended to see the development of outpatients clinics as separate from the ongoing demand on in-patient services. Using patient case files from the West Riding Mental Hospital, in the northern English county of Yorkshire, consideration is given to the links and overlaps between the creation of the new legalistic categories of temporary and voluntary inpatients and the development of outpatients clinics over the longer-term. Using quantitative and qualitative evidence it demonstrates the continuities in terms of the provision of services and the financial limitations that impacted on their delivery. While attention is paid to the medical story, including the place of female psychiatrists and social workers in the delivery of services, this article emphasises the role of patients, families and non-specialist practitioners in their successes and failures

Medical treatment · Mental health · Mental illness · Novelty · Qualitative research · Social environment · Voluntary sector · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes

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