Work and Occupation in French and English Mental Hospitals, c.1918-1939

Jane Freebody is a historian of medicine whose research interests revolve around nineteenth- and twentieth-century psychiatry and mental health in France and England. She is an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK, where she previously gained her Wellcome-funded doctorate.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Patient Work before the First World War.- 3. From Alienism to Psychiatry.- 4. New Approaches to Patient Work and Occupation.- 5. Money and Management.- 6. The Medical Prescription of Patient Occupation.- 7. The Supervision of Patient Occupation.- 8. The Patient Workers Inside Hospital.- 9. Work and Support for Patients Outside Hospital.- Conclusions.