Strangers in the archive: literary evidence and London’s East End

twentieth century American psychiatry. He views modern psychiatry as a Curate’s egg, good in places, and regrets that policy makers placed all their eggs in the one basket of neuroscience. He points to several problem areas for the future: political and public attitudes to the provision of welfare, an over reliance on the market, the lack of recognition of the social and political dimensions of mental health and the provision of mental health services, intra-professional obstacles with its public and, above all, a lack of political will. After his excellent historical exposé of American psychiatry, I would have liked him to provide a more robust epilogue to the book. Perhaps that is for another time.