13.3 Caring For People Or Caring About People

Understanding the history of psychiatry can help to preserve a sense of perspective, humanity, and humility, by setting out just how unusual and diverse the past is and how people coped with mental ailments under very different material, social, and cultural circumstances. My suggestion, in this final podcast, about how better to care for people is to spend time caring about people, by supporting the large and important voluntary sector that helps those with mental problems. Science has made great strides in understanding and treating mental disorders. The state continues to work towards a financially viable system of mental healthcare provision. But the members of civil societies can themselves help sufferers by reaching out to them.

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Image of the week: Mental Aftercare Association poster, 1889

Full Bibliographic Record: Wellcome Library Catalogue L0031850

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