Reference number
  • HENDERSON
Level of description
  • Collection
Date(s)
  • 1991-2010
Extent and medium
  • Approx. 71 boxes
Category
  • Hospital
Scope and content
  • Papers of Henderson Hospital including adminstrative records and patients' artwork
History
  • Henderson Hospital was a national hospital and therapeutic community for people with complex personality disorders. The hospital began as a rehabilitation unit within the Belmont Hospital specialising in group therapy for soldiers displaying post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in the Second World War. Over time, the unit began to admit civilian patients who, as a result of childhood abuse, displayed similar symptoms to those of the soldiers. In 1959 the unit became a hospital in its own right and the first to develop a patient-orientated approach to the treatment of psychopathic disorders. Henderson took patients from all over the UK until it’s closed in 2009 – a result of the Coalition Government’s austerity measures.
Name of creator(s)
  • Henderson Hospital
Access status
  • CLOSED
Conditions governing access
  • This collection is under review.
Language
  • ENG
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
  • Transferred by Henderson Hospital, Bridget Dolan, Diana Menzies, Martin Wrench and others to the Planned Environment Therapy Trust between 1991 and 2010. Ownership transferred to the Mulberry Bush Organisation when the Trust folded in 2018.