Mental Health and Politics in Northern Ireland

Mental Health and Politics in Northern Ireland

Author: Pauline Prior

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13:

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This text traces the development of policies for mentally ill people in Northern Ireland. It describes a service based on lunacy law inherited from 19th-century Ireland, which remained virtually unchanged until after World War II. The 1950s and 1960s were revolutionary, heralding the emergence of a modern mental health care system, under the direction of the newly-created Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority.