This event will take a detailed look at the history of psychiatry and mental health during the distinct period of 1960-2010.
This time period is characterised by the increasing dominance of ideologies of social liberalism, free markets and practices of economic neo-liberalism and globalisation. It also coincides with de-institutionalisation and community care in mental health care.
In the past decade, social media, financial crises and COVID-19 have moved us to a new era in mental health. It is timely therefore to review the half-century and investigate what happened to peoples’ mental health during this time within the broader social context.
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Learning objectives
- Understand the historical and social context of modern British psychiatry.
- Enhance knowledge of the mental health policy context and the roots of reforms of mental health care.
- Understand the clinical implications of mental health developments to special groups of mental health ill populations.
This meeting is organised in partnership with HoPSIG RCPsych.

We would like to thank our sponsor Cambridge University Press for their support of this meeting. Please note that the scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by sponsor.
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