'Developments in mental health since 1945: international and local perspectives' conference to be held at the University of Manchester on 23rd February 2007. (360G-Wellcome-082386_Z_07_Z)

Developments in mental health since 1945: international and local perspectives The workshop will address a neglected period in the history of psychiatry, offer much needed comparative perspectives and provide a forum for historians and practitioners to exchange ideas and develop common understandings. The workshop, which includes both British and North American perspectives, will focus on two main themes. Adult mental health services, with a particular emphasis on the experimental and non-traditional. Changing concepts of and responses to childhood behavioural and emotional disorders. The topics covered are: - Post-asylum geographies of mental illness - Post-war mental health services in Saskatchewan - Radical therapeutic communites post-68 - North Manchester Community Mental Health Services, 1982-96 - Approaches to Maladjusted Children in Britain, 1945-1955 - Child Therapy and Social Welfare 1945-1980 - The Role of ADHD Parent Support Groups in the US and the UK - Changing Accounts of Bad Behaviour in the American Journal of Psychiatry, 1950-2005