Buster's Fired a Wobbler eBook
The 30th anniversary eBook edition of 'Buster's Fired a Wobbler - A week in a psychiatric hospital' will be published tomorrow - the 1st October 2019 - and be available on all your favourite platforms.
First published by Penguin (UK) in 1989 the book eviscerated the standard of psychiatric hospital care provided in the UK at that time, much of it in large, shabby, Victorian era lunatic asylums, of which there were over 100 spread across the country. Today, these institutions have all been decommissioned, demolished or re-purposed for other uses. There are none that now operate in the way described in this book.
The run up to World Mental Health Day on October 10th 2019 seems an appropriate time for all of us to reflect on what was once considered an 'acceptable' standard of mental health care. We should certainly celebrate the progress that has been made in the 30 years since 'Buster's Fired a Wobbler' was first published, but we should also use the book as a catalyst to re-examine the current provision of mental health care services around the world. Ask yourself, if Buster and his fellow students were starting out today as student mental health nurses, what kind of world would they experience, what would they wish to improve?
Reviews:
"Burrell uses fictional characters and encapsulates events...to create a hospital which could be anywhere in Britain...Sunday Times, 19th November 1989
"In a factional account of his several years' experience working in British mental hospitals...Geoff Burrell gives the system a pasting." Sunday Herald, 4 December 1990
"Harrowing, amusing - and highly readable." Book Review, Hartlepool Mail, 9 November 1989.
“Nevertheless Burrell’s ‘factional’ account rings true and the overall picture is a terrible one.” Behaviour Change, Vol 10, No. 4, 1993
First published by Penguin (UK) in 1989 the book eviscerated the standard of psychiatric hospital care provided in the UK at that time, much of it in large, shabby, Victorian era lunatic asylums, of which there were over 100 spread across the country. Today, these institutions have all been decommissioned, demolished or re-purposed for other uses. There are none that now operate in the way described in this book.
The run up to World Mental Health Day on October 10th 2019 seems an appropriate time for all of us to reflect on what was once considered an 'acceptable' standard of mental health care. We should certainly celebrate the progress that has been made in the 30 years since 'Buster's Fired a Wobbler' was first published, but we should also use the book as a catalyst to re-examine the current provision of mental health care services around the world. Ask yourself, if Buster and his fellow students were starting out today as student mental health nurses, what kind of world would they experience, what would they wish to improve?
Reviews:
"Burrell uses fictional characters and encapsulates events...to create a hospital which could be anywhere in Britain...Sunday Times, 19th November 1989
"In a factional account of his several years' experience working in British mental hospitals...Geoff Burrell gives the system a pasting." Sunday Herald, 4 December 1990
"Harrowing, amusing - and highly readable." Book Review, Hartlepool Mail, 9 November 1989.
“Nevertheless Burrell’s ‘factional’ account rings true and the overall picture is a terrible one.” Behaviour Change, Vol 10, No. 4, 1993
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