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Outpatients clinics and the 1930 Mental Treatment Act: Patients and practitioners, c.1888–c.1940

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History of Psychiatry

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Abstract

History of Psychiatry, Ahead of Print.
This article explores the introduction of the 1930 Mental Treatment Act (MTA) and places it within a longer-term trajectory of the development of acute services. While many historians have considered the apparent novelty of the MTA, they have tended to ...