A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair
Belinda Black
Jun 2023 · Hachette UK
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'Ultimately, my experiences as a mental health nurse have taught me that we should judge less and open our hearts more.'
Belinda Black was just seventeen when she began working as a nursing assistant at the large and foreboding 'madhouse', as it was then known in her hometown in the north of England.
She spent a decade caring for patients with widely varying mental health problems, all locked up together and out of view of society. Amongst this, Belinda found moments of joy and even friendship with her patients until the hospital, along with many others, had its doors closed in 1991 - the biggest change to mental healthcare in NHS history.
A moving, shocking but ultimately life-affirming account from the frontlines of a unique and noble profession.
'A moving memoir' DAILY EXPRESS
'Stories that range from heart-wrenching to shocking' - YORKSHIRE POST
Belinda Black was just seventeen when she began working as a nursing assistant at the large and foreboding 'madhouse', as it was then known in her hometown in the north of England.
She spent a decade caring for patients with widely varying mental health problems, all locked up together and out of view of society. Amongst this, Belinda found moments of joy and even friendship with her patients until the hospital, along with many others, had its doors closed in 1991 - the biggest change to mental healthcare in NHS history.
A moving, shocking but ultimately life-affirming account from the frontlines of a unique and noble profession.
'A moving memoir' DAILY EXPRESS
'Stories that range from heart-wrenching to shocking' - YORKSHIRE POST
About the author
Belinda Black is a Registered Mental Health Nurse, and a non-executive director of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the independent regulator of health and social care in England. She began her nursing career in 1981, and over the following forty years has worked in two large secure hospitals, a regional secure unit, as a court liaison officer at a secure unit for mentally disordered offenders, as the CEO of a Sheffield-based social care charity, and with the National Institute For Health and Social Care Excellence (NICE) to develop national guidelines for the delivery of health and social care. Belinda lives in Huddersfield, and A Place for Lost Souls will be her first book.
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