Yorkton Psychiatric Centre was a first (and cutting edge) in 1964
About this episode
The episode discusses the innovative mental health treatment methods introduced at the Yorkton Psychiatric Centre in the 1960s.
Those working in the field of psychiatry and mental health treatment across Canada and the United States came to Yorkton in 1964 and 1965 in large numbers to see for themselves how a new way of treating mental health patients was being implemented at the new Yorkton Psychiatric Centre. The new facility was a radical departure from what had been standard mental health treatment facilities in Saskatchewan: large impersonal buildings at Weyburn and North Battleford that, from the outside, could ...
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