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Letters
Sunday
October 5, 2003
The
Observer
Back to asylums
Mary Riddell (Comment, last week) may not be aware that if Frank Bruno
had been admitted to psychiatric hospital at the time the Mental Health
Act was introduced, he would not have been restrained by 'more than 10
policemen after flying into a rage'. The police are coming more into
psychiatric hospitals than ever. In 1983 the open nature of acute
psychiatric wards was accepted. Now the positive side of opening
psychiatric wards tends not to be appreciated and in many ways we have
returned to the worst institutionalised behaviour of the
asylum.
D.B. Double
Consultant Psychiatrist
Norfolk Mental
Health Care NHS Trust
Norwich
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