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Niall McCrae and Peter Nolan have considerable expertise in the history of mental health services. The `readability' of their book is one of its most pleasing features and the authors have the skill of making the complex simple and fascinating. This book, while of interest to mental health nurses, should be required reading for all members of the multi-professional mental healthcare team. Entering the mental health professions today without knowing their histories would be like starting a journey without a map. This book is one of the best maps of the historical terrain that I have come across. Hugh McKenna, Professor, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation) University of Ulster, UK At last, due credit to nurses who devoted their careers to the vulnerable in an impoverished yet caring environment: good work was done. Jo Brand, comedian and former psychiatric nurse A thought provoking and comprehensive history of mental health nursing based on a rich variety of sources, this is a detailed, far ranging and accessible overview. McCrae and Nolan have produced what should become the seminal work on the history of British mental health nursing. Claire Chatterton, Chair, RCN History of Nursing Society, UK

Niall McCrae and Peter Nolan have considerable expertise in the history of mental health services. The `readability' of their book is one of its most pleasing features and the authors have the skill of making the complex simple and fascinating. This book, while of interest to mental health nurses, should be required reading for all members of the multi-professional mental healthcare team. Entering the mental health professions today without knowing their histories would be like starting a journey without a map. This book is one of the best maps of the historical terrain that I have come across. Hugh McKenna, Professor, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation) University of Ulster, UK At last, due credit to nurses who devoted their careers to the vulnerable in an impoverished yet caring environment: good work was done. Jo Brand, comedian and former psychiatric nurse A thought provoking and comprehensive history of mental health nursing based on a rich variety of sources, this is a detailed, far ranging and accessible overview. McCrae and Nolan have produced what should become the seminal work on the history of British mental health nursing. Claire Chatterton, Chair, RCN History of Nursing Society, UK

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Niall McCrae is a lecturer in mental health nursing at Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, King’s College London. As well as the history of mental health care, his research interests include the therapeutic role of the nurse, and evaluation of training and treatment innovations in psychiatric services. His previous book, The Moon and Madness, examining the legendary notion of lunar influence on behaviour, featured on the BBC radio series, All in the Mind. Peter Nolan has worked for over fifty years in various capacities within mental health services, both in the UK and abroad. The focus of much of his research has been on how service users make sense of mental health services and the degree of understanding they bring to what is being provided. Though now retired, he continues to write about how and whether people with mental health problems benefit from interventions, how nurses interpret what they do and the likely changes that services will undergo in the future. He has a long-term interest in the evolution of psychiatric ideas and practices and the various factors that influence them. This book, he believes, is important in enabling the voices of the predecessors of mental health nurses to be heard, voices that for too long have been silent.

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