ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on research programme on the persistence of the idea of asylum and the re-use of former asylum sites and buildings. Additionally, sees merit in investigating the fate of other custodial 19th Century institutions. Some of these have strong similarities in their origin to the psychiatric asylum. In terms of possible future research directions, we note possibilities for conducting case studies in countries other than the three on which it chose to focus. The Priory Group deployed a whole range of public relations and marketing strategies to establish the place of its residentially-based mental health services within the UK and abroad, including advertising replete with images reminiscent of therapeutic landscape. In those many instances in which asylums were closed, trajectories toward decommissioning were influenced by various policies and trends at the national level and mediated by local conditions and actors, each of which has a distinct and significant time dimension.
