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...Accounts suggest that patients benefited from the anticipation of these social engagements and that events were used to reward good behaviour. Music was also used to break up the monotony of asylum life. For example, at one private asylum, Dr Alfred Wood, wrote: These entertainments involved a great amount of trouble in their preparation and arrangement and, I may add,...

...account to challenge our own. It means accepting that professional knowledge is not the only knowledge in the room. We may have expertise about mental health, but the person sitting opposite us has expertise in what it is like to live their particular life. This represents quite a profound shift: from controlling towards collaborating; from professional power towards...