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Psychiatry at Glastonbury Festival

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Anna Knight
Affiliation:
Phoenix House, Priory Park Hospital Glastonbury Road, Wells, Somerset
Michael Hughes
Affiliation:
Tone Vale Hospital, Dene Road, Norton Fitzwarren, Taunton, Somerset TA4 1DB
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Having viewed the Glastonbury Festival for many years as local residents, it seemed time for us to venture inside and see how 100,000 people can converge onto a dairy farm in rural Somerset for three days of music and assorted entertainments. We were interested in reactions to such intensely communal living and also the organisational aspects of psychiatric services in this extreme version of community care.

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