Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight: A History Of The Waterford Hospital

by Patricia O'Brien

This book is a carefully documented history of psychiatric care in Newfoundland, Canada, focusing on the Waterford Hospital and covering the period roughly 1800 to 1972. The work describes and analyses the emergence and development of psychiatric services in Newfoundland, relating them to international currents and trends in institutional psychiatry and to the particular Newfoundland social, political, and economic scene. Thus, while essentially an institutional history, it does not discuss the evolution of the hospital in isolation, but uses it as a vehicle to convey the larger story-the complex interplay of local and international pressures.

Hardcover

First published December 12, 1999

About the author

Patricia O'Brien is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Glory Cloak and co-author of I Know Just What You Mean, a New York Times bestseller. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Writes also under the pseudonym Kate Alcott.

Reviews

[Jordan Maloney · Rating 4 out of 5]

A must read for anyone interested in the origins of mental health care in Newfoundland and Labrador. Informative and well researched.