History of Psychiatry event at Wakefield Mental Health Museum: Psychiatry at a time of controversy

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25Oct

One Day Event

Timings 09.45AM - 4.30PM
Location Wakefield Mental Health Museum, Fieldhead Hospital, Ouchthorpe Lane, Wakefield
CPD Up to six hours, subject to peer approval
Non-member£60
Consultant£60
SAS Doctor£30
Higher Trainee£30
Core Trainee£30
Student/Foundation Doctor£30
Patient/Carer£15
Subsidised£15
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History of Psychiatry event at Wakefield Mental Health Museum: Psychiatry at a time of controversy

Event Information

The History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group (HoPSIG) are pleased to invite you to attend their autumn event: Psychiatry at a time of controversy, with the support of the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

This will be held at Wakefield Mental Health Museum, Fieldhead Hospital, Ouchthorpe Lane, Wakefield, WF1 3SP on Friday 25 October 2024

The main meeting will be held in the training rooms attached to museum.

Provisional Programme (subject to change):

  • 9.45am - Registration 
  • 10.15am - Opening remarks
  • 10.30am - Rob Ellis & Ute Oswald (University of Huddersfield)
    • Asylum: Refugees and Mental Health - Finding Controversy in the Treatment of Alien Lunatic
  • 11.30am - Break
  • 11.50am Noelle Gallagher, University of Manchester
    • Mad men in the eighteenth-century imagination
  • 12.20pm - Jane Whittaker, University of Manchester
    • Who created the ‘miracle maids’?
  • 12.50pm - Q&A
  • 1pm - Lunch
  • 2pm - Introduction to the Museum and its contents
    • Short talks introducing the artefacts - Restraint, religion, post-mortems, physical therapies
  • 2.30pm - Tour of the museum and archives
  • 3.15pm  - Bob Adams, Retired Psychiatrist
    • The York Asylum scandal
  • 3.45pm - Stuart Davis, Mental Health Nurse, Wakefield
    • The 1984 Wakefield Conference on closing the institutions in Italy
  • 4.15pm - Event closing remarks
  • 4.30pm - Event close
Additional information:
  • Travel: Parking is free on the hospital site but relatively limited. Taxis from centre cost about £6-£8. Bus routes pass nearby.
  • Accommodation: Most hotels are in the centre of town about 1.5miles from Fieldhead, walking by or through site of Stanley Royd Hospital.
  • Nearby attractions include: The Hepworth, Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, National Mining Museum, Holocaust Centre North, Huddersfield. 

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

This event will take place at: Wakefield Mental Health Museum, Fieldhead Hospital, Ouchthorpe Lane, Wakefield, WF1 3SP.

The main meeting will be held in the training rooms attached to museum.

  • Travel: Parking is free on the hospital site but relatively limited. Taxis from centre cost about £6-£8. Bus routes pass nearby.
  • Accommodation: Most hotels are in the centre of town about 1.5miles from Fieldhead, walking by or through site of Stanley Royd Hospital.
  • Nearby attractions include: The Hepworth, Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, National Mining Museum, Holocaust Centre North, Huddersfield. 

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

Please read our terms and conditions before making your booking.

For further information, please contact:

Email: sigs@rcpsych.ac.uk

Contact Name: Catriona Grant

Event Location

Location: Wakefield Mental Health Museum, Fieldhead Hospital, Ouchthorpe Lane, Wakefield