The theses in this collection have been brought together as they have a focus on an historical aspect of mental health nursing or are looking at mental health nursing through a historical lens.
This thesis examines the cultural and social history of Cardiff City Mental Hospital in the early twentieth century.
New perspectives emerge on gendered diagnosis and on relationships between male and female staff together with insights into the nature of care and treatment in the early twentieth century. Themes: Psychiatric hospitals; Wales; History; Mentally ill; Care; trade unionism; gender
Community Psychiatric Nurses [CPN] have been described as probably the most important single professional in the process of moving care of mental illness into the community.
After four decades of unfettered local growth since inception in 1954, detailed information about their development was not available and the central source of information was known to be unreliable.
NHS policy initiatives eventually interrupted the expansion and direction of CPN provision, which required a reorientation in favour the interests of seriously mentally ill people. In turn, this called for a review of CPN roles and reconciliation with those of other mental health service providers. Themes: Community psychiatric nursing
