File: Picture Post article

Most of this file relates to period May 1946 - September 1947, and comprises correspondence about the visit of the journalists, the publication of the article etc. Includes a copy of the article, and also other issues of Picture Post from 1947, as well as a 1947 issue of News Review, and a 1947 issue of Pix, both of which also have articles on mental illness, using The Retreat material. Also in the file is a later edition of Picture Post, 21 May 1949, with an article on the American film, The Snake Pit, about psychiatric institutions. See also RET 1/6/1/17. For Picture Post photographs in connection with this article, see RET 1/8/9/6.

2 May 1946 - 21 May 1949

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