Y Block - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

1957 London.

A true story, the author, fresh down from Cambridge, has been directed by a tribunal for Conscientious Objectors to carry out humanitarian work as an alternative to National Service.

So begin two years as a nurse in Y Block, the Acute Male Psychiatric Unit of St Francis Hospital, East Dulwich.

Anthony Lynch joins the nurses, some of whom are as unqualified as he, attending, caring for and controlling the restless and occasionally violent bodies of men until they are delivered to the appropriate catchment area hospital.
Their minds remain unhappy and unnaturally disordered. Going with them are the notes and diagnoses by doctors from the Maudsley Hospital just up the road.

Lynch records these two years with humour towards his fellow nurses, and reflects with sympathy on the sadness and ignorance of they and the patients passing through Y Block.

If there was one boast for Y Block and other hospital units helping with mental illness: no one known to be in severe mental distress was turned away.

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