Story: Mental health services

All images and media

From page 1 - Mental health and mental illness

Mental health and wellbeing

Mental health and wellbeing

Experience of mental illness: bipolar disorder

Experience of mental illness: bipolar disorder (1st of 4)

Experience of mental illness: post-natal depression

Experience of mental illness: post-natal depression (2nd of 4)

Experience of mental illness: as a teenager

Experience of mental illness: as a teenager (3rd of 4)

Experience of mental illness: schizophrenia

Experience of mental illness: schizophrenia (4th of 4)

Motives for male suicides, 1900–1950

Motives for male suicides, 1900–1950

From page 2 - Lunatic asylums, 1840s to 1900s

Mount View Asylum, 1872

Mount View Asylum, 1872

19th-century mental hospitals and asylums

19th-century mental hospitals and asylums

Asylums: staff at Avondale Lunatic Asylum, 1890s

Asylums: staff at Avondale Lunatic Asylum, 1890s (1st of 4)

Asylums: 'strong clothing' at Porirua

Asylums: 'strong clothing' at Porirua (2nd of 4)

Asylums: seclusion room, Porirua

Asylums: seclusion room, Porirua (3rd of 4)

Asylums: outdoor work, Cherry Farm

Asylums: outdoor work, Cherry Farm (4th of 4)

Conditions in lunatic asylums, 1866

Conditions in lunatic asylums, 1866

Woman patient, Seacliff

Woman patient, Seacliff

From page 3 - Mental hospitals, 1910s to 1930s

Women's reception house, Seacliff, around 1910

Women's reception house, Seacliff, around 1910

Villa, Cherry Farm, around 1958

Villa, Cherry Farm, around 1958

Day room, Porirua Hospital, 1950s

Day room, Porirua Hospital, 1950s

First World War troops at Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer

First World War troops at Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer

ECT treatment, 1956

ECT treatment, 1956

From page 4 - Psychiatric hospitals, 1940s to 1960s

Early psychotropic drugs, Porirua Hospital Museum

Early psychotropic drugs, Porirua Hospital Museum

Recreation at Porirua Hospital

Recreation at Porirua Hospital

From page 5 - Closing the hospitals, 1960s to 1990s

Protesting against mental hospital closures

Protesting against mental hospital closures

Mental Health Foundation, 1977

Mental Health Foundation, 1977

Claims of abuse by former psychiatric patients

Claims of abuse by former psychiatric patients

From page 6 - Community care, 1990s onwards

Mason Report, 1988

Mason Report, 1988

Mental health nurse practitioner

Mental health nurse practitioner

Mental health community organisations: Lifeline

Mental health community organisations: Lifeline (1st of 4)

Mental health community organisations: Eating Difficulties Education Network

Mental health community organisations: Eating Difficulties Education Network (2nd of 4)

Mental health community organisations: Hearing Voices

Mental health community organisations: Hearing Voices (3rd of 4)

Mental health community organisations: MENZSHED New Zealand

Mental health community organisations: MENZSHED New Zealand (4th of 4)

Ashburn Hall, around 1890

Ashburn Hall, around 1890

From page 7 - Contemporary issues

Friends and family

Friends and family

Like Minds, Like Mine television commercial

Like Minds, Like Mine television commercial

Mason Clinic, 2006

Mason Clinic, 2006

Pacific attitudes to mental illness

Pacific attitudes to mental illness

How to cite this page:

Warwick Brunton, 'All images and media', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/mental-health-services/media (accessed 25 April 2024)

Story by Warwick Brunton, published 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 5 May 2022