Contextualizing Autobiographical Remembering: An Expanded View of Memory

Brown, Steven D.; Reavey, Paula

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“…Other patients can, in principle, serve as resources and supports for remembering, but here again few patients choose to do so for good reason. It can be challenging for any person with a difficult and potentially traumatic past to narrate it to others, not least because putting their personal past in some kind of order may not necessarily make it easy to live with (see Brown and Reavey (2018) on the functional role of ambiguity in memory). For patients on a forensic pathway, their index offence typically looms large, since it is the principal reason for their current circumstances.…”

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The privatisation of remembering practices in contemporary inpatient mental healthcare: going beyond Agnes's Jacket

Brown

Reavey

2021

Mem. Mind & Media

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In this paper, we consider changes to memorial practices for mental health service users during the asylum period of the mid-nineteenth up to the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. The closing of large asylums in the UK has been largely welcomed by professionals and service-users alike, but their closure has led to a decrease in continuous and consistent care for those with enduring mental health challenges. Temporary and time-limited mental health services, largely dedicated to crisis management and risk reduction have failed to enable memory practices outside the therapy room. This is an unusual case of privatised memories being favoured over collective memorial activity. We argue that the collectivisation of service user memories, especially in institutions containing large numbers of long-stay patients, would benefit both staff and patients. The benefit would be in the development of awareness of how service users make sense of their past in relation to their present stay in hospital, how they might connect with others in similar positions and how they may connect with the world and others upon future release. This seems to us central to a project of recovery and yet is rarely practised in any mental health institution in the UK, despite being central to other forms of care provision, such as elderly and children's care services. We offer some suggestions on how collective models of memory in mental health might assist in this project of recovery and create greater visibility between past, present and future imaginings.

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Section: Travelling Memories On the Wardmentioning

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The privatisation of remembering practices in contemporary inpatient mental healthcare: going beyond Agnes's Jacket

Brown

Reavey

2021

Mem. Mind & Media

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Practices and Negotiations of Belonging in the Deindustrialising Coalfields: Navigating School, Education and Memory Through a Time of Transformation

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Pattison

Simpson

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Education, Work and Social Change in Britain’s Former Coalfield Communities

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Contextualizing Autobiographical Remembering: An Expanded View of Memory

Cited by 2 publications

References 49 publications

The privatisation of remembering practices in contemporary inpatient mental healthcare: going beyond Agnes's Jacket

The privatisation of remembering practices in contemporary inpatient mental healthcare: going beyond Agnes's Jacket

Practices and Negotiations of Belonging in the Deindustrialising Coalfields: Navigating School, Education and Memory Through a Time of Transformation

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