A White doctor recalls mental hospital practice in apartheid South Africa.

Stigma and discrimination electroconvulsive therapy history of psychiatry psychotic disorders transcultural psychiatry

Journal

BJPsych international
ISSN: 2056-4740
Titre abrégé: BJPsych Int
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101654173

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Nov 2021
Historique:
received: 08 04 2021
accepted: 14 05 2021
entrez: 8 11 2021
pubmed: 9 11 2021
medline: 9 11 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The article offers a personal memoir of a psychiatric registrar's impressions of daily life while working in a South African mental hospital during the apartheid era in the late 1960s. From the perspective of a trainee psychiatrist, he recalls admission procedures, ward management, patient assessment, and medical and nursing care, including electroconvulsive therapy administration, at that time.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34747944
doi: 10.1192/bji.2021.36
pii: S2056474021000362
pmc: PMC8554891
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Pagination

105-107

Informations de copyright

© The Author 2021.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

None.

Auteurs

Harold Behr (H)

MBBCh, DPM, FRCPsych, Consultant in Child Psychiatry (retired), formerly at Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK. Email harold.behr@ntlworld.com.

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