HoPSIG Autumn Conference at the London Metropolitan Archives

• 10.00AM – Building opens
• 10.25AM – Welcome
• Morning topic – Therapies
• 10.30AM – The Therapeutic Community at Brentry [Subnormality] Hospital – its rise and fall, Peter Carpenter, retired psychiatrist
• 11.00AM – Recreation as Therapy in Nineteenth-Century British Asylums, Ute Oswald, Associate Fellow, University of Warwick
• 11.30AM – Break
• 11.45AM – Freudian Dreams from the archives, Roger Willoughby, University of the West of England
• 12.15PM – lunch and opportunity to look at LMA exhibition: Switching the lens – Rediscovering Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous Heritage 1561 to 1840
• 1.30PM trip to visit conservation department [and archive exhibition]
• Afternoon topic – Identity
• 2.00PM – An introduction to asylum and mental hospital collections held at London Metropolitan Archives”– an overview and document show- and-tell by Meera Flyn, Information Officer
• 2.45PM – Re-evaluating the presidents' portraits at the college – an oral history project, Immanuel Rhema – trainee
• 3.00PM – Psychiatry according to the BBC 1945 – 1970, Deborah Cohen – Freelance journalist
• 3.30PM – Wind-up
• 3.45PM – Closure
• 4.00PM – Building closes

This event is in-person only. Unfortunately it won't be recorded, nor will it be possible to view it online.

This event will take place at the London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road; London EC1R 0HB.

If you have any accessibility or dietary requirements (including allergies), please inform us at sigs@rcpsych.ac.uk as soon as possible.

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