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Peter Barham is a psychologist and social historian of mental health, and formerly honorary research fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London.
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- Peter Barham has been working, writing and engaging critically in the mental health field for more than 50 years. His work straddles clinical research, psychoanalysis, practical initiative, historical inquiry, mental health activism and film making. He has a PhD in abnormal psychology from the University of Durham and in modern history from the University of Cambridge. He is a chartered psychologist and was elected a fellow of the British Psychological Society for his ‘outstanding contribution to psychological approaches to the understanding of psychosis'. He is the founder of the Hamlet Trust, which pioneered grassroots mental health reform in Central and Eastern Europe, supported by George Soros' Open Society Institute. His books include Schizophrenia and Human Value (1995), first published 1984, Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War (2004, 2007) and Closing the Asylum: The mental patient in modern society, first published in 1992 and reissued in 2020.
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Steelwhisper | Mar 31, 2013 |
Steelwhisper | Mar 31, 2013 | 
This is the story of a gifted writer that led an extraordinary life & died too young due to anorexia. Her name may not have been famous, but most of us have probably heard some of Debby Barham's work, not realizing that it was the work of a child living in an adult's world.
If one reads this book, they would realize that anorexia is not a disease to be trifled with, or trivialized. Too many books regarding eating disorders are used as guide manuals. Prominent cheekbones or collarbones may be considered glamorous, but the less spoken of symptoms of anorexia (scabs from hair loss, weeping leg ulcers, dementia, etc...) certainly are not. This book thoroughly describes her suffering through the eyes of her father.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/04/1051987603561.html… (mehr)
If one reads this book, they would realize that anorexia is not a disease to be trifled with, or trivialized. Too many books regarding eating disorders are used as guide manuals. Prominent cheekbones or collarbones may be considered glamorous, but the less spoken of symptoms of anorexia (scabs from hair loss, weeping leg ulcers, dementia, etc...) certainly are not. This book thoroughly describes her suffering through the eyes of her father.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/04/1051987603561.html… (mehr)
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This book concentrates however on the poor sods of the other ranks who, denuded of any understanding from those who stayed at home or those officers commanding them from the plushy chairs, first were refused their proper diagnosis of shell-shock, then quickly hidden in asylums for the insane, rather than properly treated.
As a result the content is, in hindsight, quite heartbreaking and I found myself gritting my teeth rather often at the class-driven disregard and callousness directed at people who indeed had been largely led to the Big Meatgrinder in France and other parts of Europe like sheep to the slaughterbank, and who, when they did their bit alright and even managed not to end up as a casualty of needless attrition, weren't even properly cared for. And don't say they didn't all know better, what this book really does is show in detail the cruelty and callousness of classdriven medicine with all its prejudices.
A great and interesting read, recommended for everyone interested in shell-shock and the other ranks.… (mehr)