Buddleia Dance On The Asylum by Stephen Burrow
"This is an authentic account of a professional's experience of the mental health industry beginning in the early nineteen seventies when, as a young man from a disturbed background, he failed to reach university and seeks employment as a porter in a mental hospital".
Stephen Burrow protects the identities of the patients and staff by alternative names and never mentions the name of the institution itself. But the reader, with a knowledge of the Surrey asylums, will instantly recognise the hospital as Cane Hill.
Its a fascinating, sobering account of the life of Cane Hill from the 1970s onwards. It really brings the place alive and anyone interested in either mental health care, and/or Cane Hill, should purchase this book.
All the best,
Simon
"This is an authentic account of a professional's experience of the mental health industry beginning in the early nineteen seventies when, as a young man from a disturbed background, he failed to reach university and seeks employment as a porter in a mental hospital".
Stephen Burrow protects the identities of the patients and staff by alternative names and never mentions the name of the institution itself. But the reader, with a knowledge of the Surrey asylums, will instantly recognise the hospital as Cane Hill.
Its a fascinating, sobering account of the life of Cane Hill from the 1970s onwards. It really brings the place alive and anyone interested in either mental health care, and/or Cane Hill, should purchase this book.
All the best,
Simon
