Bibliography of English
Publications about Geel (Gheel)
Arranged in reverse chronological
order; most recent first.
Roosens, E. & Van de Walle, L.
(2007). Geel revisited. Antwerp,
BE: Garant Uitgevers.
van Walsum, Kimberly L. (2004). Nos
malades: Three
examples of Christian influences in care for the insane in
pre-revolutionary France and Belgium. Journal of Psychology
& Christianity, 23(3): 219-233.
Goldstein, Jackie L., Godemont, Marc
M.L. (2003).
The legend and lessons of Geel, Belgium: A 1500-year-old legend, a 21st
century model. Community Mental Health Journal, 39(5):
441-458.
Priebe, S. (2003). Community mental
health care in Europe – an overview. Med. Arh. 57
(5-6 Suppl 1): 51-55.
Earle, Pliny (1994). Gheel, American
Journal of Psychiatry, 151(6, Suppl): 16-19 [Reprint of essay
written by author in 1851).
Goren, Suzanne (1994). Space and sanity.
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 8(4): 237-244.
Godemont, Marc. (1992). 600 years of
family care in
Geel, Belgium: 600 years of familiarity with madness in town life.
Community Alternatives: International Journal of Family Care,
4(2): 155-168.
Liégeois, Axel (1991). The
historiography of psychiatry in Belgium, History of
Psychiatry, 2(7, Pt 3): 263-270.
Kraepelin, Emil (1989). One
hundred years of psychiatry.
In Fine, Reuben (Ed), Current and historical perspectives on the
borderline patient, pp. 19-23, Philadelphia, PA: Brunner/Mazel.
Lilburn, T. (1986). To St. Dympna of
Gheel, patroness of lunatics, for my healing. Poetry
Australia, N105: 45.
Conrad, Peter (1983). Madhouses,
mad-doctors, and
madmen: The social history of psychiatry in the Victoria era. (Review
of Andrew Scull work). Contemporary Sociology, 12(1):
82).
Parry-Jones, William (1981). The
model of the Geel lunatic colony and its influence on the
nineteenth-century asylum system in Britain.
In Andrew Scull (ed.), Madhouses, mad-doctors and madmen: The social
history of psychiatry in the Victorian era, pp. 201-217, Philadelphia,
PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Pierloot, R. A., Demarsin, M. (1981).
Family care versus hospital stay for chronic psychiatric patients.
Int. J. Soc. Psychiatry, 27(3): 217-24.
Linn, M. W., Klett, C. J., Caffey, E.
M., Jr.
(1980). Foster home characteristics and psychiatric patient outcome.
The wisdom of Gheel confirmed. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry., 37(2):
129-32.
(June 1980) Good neighbors. (Home care
of mental patients). Saturday Review, 7: 6 (1)
Roosens, Eugeen (1979). Mental
patients in town life: Geel, Europe’s first therapeutic
community. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.
Stevens, Henry (1970-79). Insane
colony of Gheel. Rochester, NY: Pennwalt Prescription
Products.
Huey, Karen (1977). The chronic
psychiatric patient
in the community: Highlights from a conference in Boston, Hospital
and Community Psychiatry, 28(4): 283-290.
Srole, Leo (1977). Geel,
Belgium: The
natural therapeutic community 1475-1975. In G. Serban (ed). New
Trends of Psychiatry in the Community (pp. 111-129).
Cambridge, Mass:
Ballinger.
A hometown for the mentally ill (1976).
In Robert Campbell & editors of Time-Life, The enigma
of the mind (pp. 159-171), New York: Time-Life Books.
Berg, R. K. (1975). Letter: The Gheel
experience. JAMA 234(7): 702)
Hulme, J. R. (1975). The town of Geel
– legend and reality. Nurs Mirror Midwives J.,
151(23): 64-5.
Mathessen, H., Morren, P., Segers, J.
(1975). The State Psychiatric Hospital Center for family
care, Geel. Geel: The Hospital.
Aring, Charles D. (1974). Gheel
revisted. JAMA, 230(6): 849.
Aring, Charles D. (1974). The Gheel
experience: Eternal spirit of the chainless mind. JAMA 230(7):
998-1001.
Fields, Suzanne (1974). Asylum on the
front porche: I. Foster communities for the mentally Ill, Innovations,
1(4): 3-10.
Fields, Suzanne (1974). Asylum on the
front porch: III. A medieval tradition, Innovations, 1(4):
15-16.
Kernodle, R. Wayne (1972). Three family
placement programs in Belgium and the Netherlands. Hospital
and Community Psychiatry, 23(11): 339-345.
Keskiner, Ali, Zalcman, Marilyn J.,
Ruppert, Emily
J., Ulette, George A. (1972). The foster community: A partnership in
psychiatric rehabilitation. American Journal of Psychiatry,
129(3): 283-288.
Goldin, G. (1971). A painting in Gheel.
J. Hist. Med. Allied Sci. (26(4): 400-12.
Lovasik, Lawrence G. (1971). Saint
Dymphna: A saint who brings consoling light to all –
especially to the nervous and the mentally handicapped.
Tarentum, PA: L. G. Lovasik.
A town for outpatients (March
14,1969). Time Magazine, p. 74.
Carty, R. C., Breault, G. C. (1967).
Gheel: A comprehensive community mental health program. Perspect
Psychiatr. Care. 5(6): 281-5.
Dumont, Matthew P. & Aldrich, C.
Knight
(1962). Family care after a thousand years – a
crisis in
the tradition of St. Dymphna. Amer. J. Psychiatry,
119: 110-121.
O’Brien, E. (1953). A visit to
Gheel colony. J. Ir Med. Associ., 32(191): 146-50.
Rademaekers, A. (1951). The
present position
of family care at Gheel. Brussels, Belgium: S.C.T. {Originally read at
International Congress of Mental Hygiene, London, Aug. 20, 1948, and
published in Mental Health, August 1948).
Sibbald , J. (1896). Gheel and
Lierneux, the asylum-colonies for the insane in Belgium. Journal
of Mental Science, XLIII.
Letchworth, William Pryor (1889). The
insane in foreign countries. New York: G. P. Putnam.
Tuke, D. Hack (1886). On a
recent visit to Gheel. Journal of Mental Science,
XXXI: 481-497
Pilgrim, Charles Winfield (1886). A
visit to Gheel.
Tucker, G. A. (1884). The
Gheel lunatic colony. Birmingham, England: Cornish Brothers.
Bryne, Wm. Pitt, Mrs. (1975, 1869). Gheel,
the city of the simple. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms.
Parigot, J. (1863). The Gheel
question: From an American point of view. Journal of
Mental Science, 19: 332-354.
Sibbald, J. (1861). The
cottage system and Gheel. Journal of Mental
Science, VII.
Stevens, Henry (1858). Insane
colony of Gheel. The Asylum Journal of Mental
Science, 4 (25): 426-436.
Parigot, J. (1857). On
civilisation and insanity. J. Psych. Med. and
Mental Pathology, X:344.
Earle, Pliny (1851). Gheel.
Officers of the New York State Lunatic
Asylum, Utica (eds.) (1848). A village of
lunatics. The American Journal of Insanity, IV:
217-222.