CQC LGBT+ HM open event – ‘Curing Queers’ talk with Dr Tommy Dickinson
Presenter – Dr Tommy Dickinson Head of the Department of Mental Health Nursing at Kings College, London
Facilitator – Ray Mason CQC Hospitals Directorate Support Team Leader
Subject – Dr Dickinson who amongst his many publications wrote “Curing Queers” – Mental Nurses and their Patients, 1935-1974 will present on the books subject matter, including oral testimonies from both patients and the nurses who treated them. For more info on the book, please read The Guardian’s review from 2015. “A powerful study of how aversion therapy was used to ‘treat’ homosexuality exposes a nasty episode in recent British history”.
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