Planning mental health care services

Butler, T (1992) Changing mental health services. London: Chapman and Hall. ISBN 0 412 405000 8 (pkb), pp176.

Authors

  • Anil Bhagwanjee
  • Inge Petersen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17159//2309-8708/1994/n18a11

Abstract

In Changing Mental Health Services Tom Butler examines the strategies used for the provision of mental health care services under the umbrella of the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain today. These strategies are contextualised historically by tracing their roots from incarceration in the asylums of nineteenth century Britain, to the rhetoric of the community-care approach characteristic of the 1950s, through to the more recent impact of Thatcherism on the NHS in general and mental health services in particular. Finally, drawing from the author’s concrete and practical involvement in reformulating mental health services in a specific city, and on model of mental health service delivery used in the USA, the author offers an alternative strategy for planning mental health care services.

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2026-01-16

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Bhagwanjee, A., & Petersen, I. (2026). Planning mental health care services: Butler, T (1992) Changing mental health services. London: Chapman and Hall. ISBN 0 412 405000 8 (pkb), pp176. PINS-Psychology in Society, (18). https://doi.org/10.17159//2309-8708/1994/n18a11

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No. 18 (1994)

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Book Reviews

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