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1 online resource |
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Mental Health in Historical Perspective |
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Mental health in historical perspective.
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Marking Time: Memory, Mental Health, and Making Minds -- Remembering the 'Bad Old Days' -- Repositories of Memory: Structures, People, Praxis -- Part I: Governance -- Part II: Practitioners -- Part III: Casebooks -- Part IV: Oral Histories -- Part V: Personal Recollections -- Notes -- Governance -- Carrying on with 'Common-Sense': Rebuffing Reform in Bombay's Lunatic Asylums, 1894-1933 -- The Tale of the 'veritable Cinderella'40 -- The Elusive Glass Slipper of Reform |
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A New Name for Cinderella: The Asylum Nomenclature Controversy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The New Socialist Citizen and 'Forgetting' Authoritarianism: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Revolution in Socialist Yugoslavia -- Introduction -- Socialist Revolution and 'Reactionary' Biological Psychiatry -- A Moment of Fear and Ambivalence -- Building an Activist Psychoanalysis -- 'Revolutionary Personality': Psychiatry of Non-Alignment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Practitioners -- Appropriating Wilhelm Griesinger's Asylum Reform Legacy (1868-2018): Some Reflections on Historiographic Narratives of Failure |
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Introduction: Griesinger's Contested Legacies -- A Synopsis of Griesinger's Reform Programme -- The Obituaries of 1868/69 -- The 25th Anniversary of Griesinger's Death (1893) and the Early Twentieth Century -- The 60th Anniversary of the Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases (1927) -- The Elision of Griesinger's Reform Legacy in the Mid Twentieth Century -- 1967/68: The Triple Anniversaries and a Griesinger 'Renaissance' -- Evolving Narratives of Failure: Griesinger's Reform Legacy After the Psychiatrie-Enquête -- Conclusion: Moving Beyond Narratives of Failure -- Notes |
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Remodelling the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna: Memories, Museums, and Curatorial Considerations -- Notes -- Casebooks -- Madness, Memory and Delusion in Late Nineteenth-Century Colonial Barbados -- Introduction -- The Unreformed Asylum -- Marginalised People -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Gone but not Forgotten: Acts of Remembrance in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Asylum -- Introduction: Forgetting and Losing in the Total Institution -- Remembering Photographs in the Institution -- Temporal and Spatial Disruption -- Networks, Relationships, and 'Circuits' of Feeling -- Conclusion |
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Notes -- The Institute for Imbecile Children: Remembering the Lives and Experiences of the Patients -- Routes to the Institute -- Daily Life and Experiences at the Institute -- Transfer Routes -- Casebook Photographs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Oral Histories -- Surprise and Nostalgia: Staff Narrate the Closure of an American Psychiatric Hospital -- Oral History and Narrative -- Surprise -- Nostalgia -- Conclusions -- Notes -- An Exploration of the Function of Nostalgia in Oral Histories of Institutional Care -- Introduction -- Nostalgia and Oral History |
| Summary |
This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry and mental health. It challenges simplistic representations of the callous nature of mental health care in the past, while at the same time eschewing a celebratory and uncritical marking of anniversaries and individuals. Asking critical questions of the early Whiggish histories of mental health care, the book problematizes the idea of a shared professional and institutional history, and the abiding faith placed in the reform of medicine, administration, and even patients. It contends that much post-1800 legislation drafted to ensure reform, acted to preserve beliefs about the bad old days and a brighter future in the state memories of imperial powers, which in turn exported these notions around the world. Conversely, the collection demonstrates the variety of remembering and forgetting, building on recent interest in the ideological and cultural linkages between past and present in international psychiatric practice. In this way, it seeks to trace the pathways of memory, exploring the direction of travel, and the perpetuation, remodeling, and uprooting of recollection. Chapter The New Socialist Citizen and Forgetting Authoritarianism: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Revolution in Socialist Yugoslavia is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer. com. Rebecca Wynter is a historian at the Universities of Amsterdam and Birmingham. She has published widely on the histories of psychiatry, mental health, neurology, first response, and so-called conversion therapy. She is active in public history, working with museums, institutions and people to reveal the past. Jennifer Wallis is a Medical Humanities Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine at Imperial College London, UK. She has published widely on the nineteenth-century asylum and the history of medicine in the Victorian period. Rob Ellis is a Reader in History at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has published widely on the histories of mental ill-health and learning disability and has worked in partnership to co-produce projects that have emphasized their contemporary relevance. |
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Includes index |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 09, 2023) |
| Subject |
Memory.
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Psychiatry -- History
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Mental health services -- History
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Memory
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Mental health services
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Psychiatry
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wynter, Rebecca.
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Wallis, Jennifer, 1983-
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Ellis, Rob
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| ISBN |
9783031229787 |
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3031229789 |
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