Project Lead: Professor Helen Spandler
Project Collaborators:  Dr Sarah Carr

Overview of the Project  

This Wellcome Trust funded scoping study looked to explore the psychiatric treatment of lesbians and bisexual women in the UK from 1952-1990. 

For more information on the study, please click here. 

Outputs 

Spandler, H. (2020) 'The Shocking 'treatment' to make lesbians straight'. Wellcome Collection Stories. 

Spandler, H., Carr, S. (2020) 'A history of lesbian politics and the psy professions'. Feminism, and Psychology. 

Carr, S., Spandler, H. (2019) 'Hidden from history? A brief modern history of the psychiatric "treatment" of lesbian and bisexual women in England'. The Lancet Psychiatry. Volume 6, Issue 4: 289-290.