Intro -- Improving Psychiatric Care for Older People -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Dramatis Personae -- 1 Introduction: A Strange Eventful History -- Scandals of Psychiatric Hospital Care -- Social Justice, Pressure Groups and the Emergence of AEGIS -- Ageism -- Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Psychiatric Hospitals and Older People: Status Quo or Making Changes? -- The Psychiatric Hospital Wards -- Wards and Community: Getting the Balance Right -- Research and Innovation: Challenging Medical Doctrine About Older People -- The Government's Standpoint -- Introducing Friern Hospital -- Patients and Complaints at Friern -- Comment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Barbara Robb, Amy Gibbs and the 'Diary of a Nobody' -- Barbara: An Anne of Burghwallis -- Carl Jung, Victor White and Barbara -- Amy Gibbs -- 'Diary of a Nobody': Friern, Amy and Friends -- Was Amy Mentally Ill? -- People and Politics -- From Private to Public -- New Ideas in Psychogeriatrics -- Comment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Establishing AEGIS and Writing Sans Everything: 'The Case' and 'Some Answers' -- AGEIS: Supporters and Early Activities -- The First Friern Inquiry -- The Outcome of Blofeld's Report -- Action on Stripping -- Improving, Monitoring and Maintaining Standards -- Planning Sans Everything -- The Witnesses and Their Statements -- The Witnesses, Their Names, Roles and Hospitals -- AEGIS's Advisors -- Nazi Atrocities and Sans Everything -- AEGIS's Distractions -- Comment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Reprinted Before Publication: Plotting a Route for Sans Everything -- The Press Paves the Way -- The Ministry, Robinson and the Press: Planning Inquiries -- Publication Day: 30 June 1967 -- After Publication: Secrecy, Privacy and Confidentiality -- Other Responses in the Public Arena.

'Smouldering Discontent' Elsewhere -- Comment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 The Inquiries: A Lion's Den -- Friern -- St Lawrence's Hospital, Bodmin -- Storthes Hall and Springfield -- The Other Witnesses -- The Ministry Prepares the White Paper -- Between Inquiries and White Paper: Barbara's Activities and the Council on Tribunals -- Comment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 Whitewash and After: 'Most Good Is Done by Stealth' -- More Psychiatric Hospitals in the News -- Announcing Findings and Recommendations, the White Paper on Sans Everything -- The Aftermath -- The Ely Hospital Inquiry -- More Inquiries -- 'The Answers' Proposed in Sans Everything: Outcomes -- Barbara, Opponents and Allies -- Comment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 Then and Now: Concluding Remarks -- The AEGIS Campaign -- Reflections on Barbara -- Women and the AEGIS Campaign -- After August 1974 -- Relevance to Current Practice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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