Medicine
Doing psychiatry in postwar Europe
Practices, routines and experiences
by Gundula Gahlen, Henriette Voelker, Volker Hess, Marianna Scarfone
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Doing psychiatry engages with the history of European psychiatry in the second half of the twentieth century through a close and fresh look at the practices that contributed to reshape the mental health field. Case studies from across Europe allow readers to appreciate how new 'ways of doing' contributed to transform the field, beyond the watchwords of deinstitutionalisation, the prescription of neuroleptics, centrality of patients and overcoming of asylum-era habits. Through a variety of sources and often adopting a small-scale perspective, the chapters take a close look at the way new practices emerged and at how they installed themselves, eventually facing resistance, injecting new purposes and contributing to enlarging psychiatry's fields of expertise, therefore blurring its once-more-defined boundaries.
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European psychiatry underwent numerous transformations in the second half of the twentieth century. A variety of practices were experienced and routinised, contributing to reshape the boundaries of the mental health field. Case studies from across Europe allow one to appreciate how new 'ways of doing' contributed to transform the field, beyond the watchwords of deinstitutionalisation, the introduction of neuroleptics, centrality of patients and overcoming of asylum-era habits. Through a variety of sources and often adopting a small-scale perspective, the book takes a close look at the way new practices took shape and at how they installed themselves, eventually facing resistance, injecting new purposes, and contributing to enlarging psychiatry's fields of expertise, therefore blurring its once-more-defined boundaries. Studying psychiatry in its making and unmaking in the second half of the twentieth century allows one to see it less as a science grounded in theory or laboratory research than as an art of doing, which can be understood as the outcome of practices.
Author Biography
Gahlen is a research associate at Ludwig-Maximilians-University. Hess is chair of the Institute for the History of Medicine atthe Charité Medical School. Scarfone is an associate professor at Strasbourg University. Voelker is a research associate at the Institute for the History of Medicine.
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date March 2024
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526173461 / 1526173468
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPrint PDF
- Pages352
- ReadershipGeneral/trade; College/higher education; Professional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 X 138 mm
- Biblio NotesDerived from Proprietary 5793
- SeriesSocial Histories of Medicine
- Reference Code15758
