Searching for the patient's voice in the Irish asylums
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12691944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brendan D Kelly (0000-0002-6113-1384, Trinity College Dublin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 87-91 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-215X • E-ISSN: 1473-4265 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/medhum-2015-010825 |
| PMID | 26733425 |
| OpenAlex | W2231144455 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 26 |
The history of mental healthcare in Ireland ends to focus on the histories of institutions and development of mental health legislation. Attention has also been devoted to clinical records, with all of their interpretative and narrative complexities. In both the historiography and archives, however, patients themselves remain remarkably elusive, their voices astonishingly distant. In countries other than Ireland, there have been more extensive analyses of patients' letters, journals and first-person accounts of hospitalisation and treatment. In Ireland, there is real difficulty accessing such accounts, if they exist, especially from the 1800s. Asylum and hospital records offer some assistance in understanding patients' concerns and, arguably, the symptoms recorded in asylum records (eg, delusions) provide further windows into patients' minds. Methodological challenges abound, but while patients' voices may remain largely unknown at present, they are certainly not unknowable. This paper posits that we just need to listen harder and, perhaps, listen better
Irish · Linguistics · S Voice · Computer Science · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Neurology and Historical Studies · Psychology
A History of Psychiatry
The Mental Treatment Act 1945 in Ireland
Critical medical humanities
Patients' Relatives and Psychiatric Doctors
Families, Patients and Emotions
Your Very Thankful Inmate
The Patient's View Meets the Clinical Gaze
Poverty, Crime and Mental Illness
Reconstructing Clinical Activities
Irish Insanity
His Brain was Wrong, His Mind Astray
The patient's view
The patient's view
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |