Reference number
  • BIERER
Level of description
  • Collection
Date(s)
  • Creation: 1930-1984
Extent and medium
  • 7 boxes (approx)
Category
  • Personal Papers
Scope and content
  • ┆Personal papers of Doctor Joshua Bierer including a selection of his personal papers as well as Bierer's draft autobiography.
History
  • Doctor Joshua Bierer was a psychiatrist and pioneer in social psychiatry with a special interest in community care and the rehabilitation of mental patients with chronic disabilities. In 1938 he became the first psychotherapist in a public mental hospital (Runwell Hospital). In 1946 he founded the Marlborough Day Hospital, a social psychotherapy centre and the first of this kind in the world. He was also founder the International Journal of Social Psychiatry, the Institute of Social Psychiatry, and the British Association of Social Psychiatry.
Name of creator(s)
  • Joshua Bierer
Access status
  • OPEN
Records held elsewhere
  • The majority of Dr Bierer's papers are held by the Wellcome Library. Their ref: PP/BIE.
Language
  • ENG