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Ty Bryn & Pollards Well

Ty Bryn & Pollards Well

Sep 8, 2020 | Memoirs, Poetry

These two buildings were the headquarters for the child and adolescent service for Gwent. They were in the very attractive park-like grounds of St Cadoc’s Hospital in Caerleon. They had started with Pollards Well, built many years before as a private residence...
For Gwent: Child Psychiatry – 1972-2005

For Gwent: Child Psychiatry – 1972-2005

Sep 1, 2020 | Memoirs

Whatever its flaws as an institution, my time in Whitchurch Hospital was a good place to learn what should be done—and even more importantly not done—in mental health care. I joined the academic unit on Ward E1 and moved with it, as a lecturer in the School of...
Anne’s Story

Anne’s Story

Aug 25, 2020 | Memoirs

“It was as if a door in the ceiling opened and there was this old man staring down at us. His face sort of crumpled and he had tears in his eyes,” said Anne. “I’d never seen a grown-up cry before!” Her voice was full of wonderment as she told me this over and over...