Testimony: Telling the Stories of Those Who Survived the Old Victorian Asylums

Synopsis: Excerpts from over 50 interviews present a picture of patients’ lives from admission to discharge in the old Victorian asylums, which, with the advent of community care, have closed down. The interviews form a record of the history of mental health care from the patient’s point of view, covering the period 1925-1985, and both urban and rural areas in England and Wales.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Year of production: 2000
Availability: Out of Distribution
Subjects: Social welfare
Keywords: mental illness; psychiatric hospitals

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Notes: A long-established, not-for-profit organisation with a large collection DVDs, specialising in the sectors of general and mental health, child care, race relations, war and peace, addictions, the third world, ecology, civil rights, personal relationships, educational issues, and social work training. Concord also handles titles made for the Graves Medical Audio-visual Library. Sale on DVD. Formerly known as Concord Video and Film Council. In 2014 Concord began to offer selected films as Video on Demand, via Vimeo.

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Notes: The Mental health Shop is a combined effort from Mental Health Media and the charity, Rethink.

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