Voices in the history of madness : : personal and professional perspectives on mental health and illness / / Robert Ellis, Sarah Kendal, Steven J. Taylor, editors.

• Superior document: Mental Health in Historical Perspective Ser.
• Author: Robert Ellis
• TeilnehmendeR: Ellis, Rob (Psychologist),; Kendal, Sarah,; Taylor, Steven J. (Of the University of Leicester),
• Place / Publishing House: Cham, Switzerland : : Palgrave Macmillan,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective Ser.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (439 pages)

This interdisciplinary volume brings together new research that broadens our understanding of the multiplicity of voices in the histories of mental ill-health. In the chapters that follow, we hear from people who have experienced mental health difficulties and were on the receiving end of regimens and treatments. Alongside medical notes, we find records of decisions made by a range of people with financial and political agendas. Correspondence with families reminds us that people deemed to be mentally ill were not ciphers; they had their histories, their people, preferences, hopes and losses. The contributions utilise a range of archival materials, oral history, personal testimony, history of art, and literary methodologies and provide novel insights into the voices of individuals, institutions, and communities in an international context. Key overlapping themes divide the volume into four parts: Shifting Perspectives in the Industry of Madness; Reconstructing Patient Perspectives; The Visual and the Material; and Mad Studies and Activism

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Voices in the History of Madness: An Introduction to Personal and Professional Perspectives -- Part I Shifting Perspectives in the Industry of Madness -- Part II Reconstructing Patient Perspectives -- Part III The Visual and the Material -- Part IV Mad Studies and Activism -- Part I: Shifting Perspectives in the Industry of Madness -- Chapter 2: Accepted and Rejected: Late Nineteenth-Century Application for Admission to the Scottish National Institution for the Education of Imbecile Children -- Early Ethos and Evolution -- Selected and Rejected: Outcomes -- Beyond the Gates of the SNI -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Mental Health in the Vernacular: Print and Counter-Hegemonic Approaches to Madness in Colonial Bengal -- Prelude: Epistemic Challenges in the Concept of Psyche in Modern South Asia -- The Concept of Madness in Premodern South Asia -- The World of Print in Colonial Bengal -- Medical Books in the Vernacular -- Mental Health in Vernacular Health Periodicals -- Closing Remarks -- Chapter 4: "The Root of All Evil is Inactivity": The Response of French Psychiatrists to New Approaches to Patient Work and Occupation, 1918-1939 -- Introduction -- Historiography -- Patient Work before 1918 -- The Aftermath of World War I -- Criticisms of Patient Work -- "More Active Therapy"-A New Theory Regarding Patient Occupation -- The Effect of the New Theory on Practice in Asylums -- Impediments to the Adoption of More Active Therapy -- Professional Orientation of Asylum Psychiatrists -- Management Issues -- Financial Issues -- Staffing -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Distant Voices: Treatment of Mentally Ill Children at the Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark, c. 1935-1976 -- Introduction -- Admission -- Conflicts -- Diagnostic Tools and Treatment.

Distant Voices? -- Concluding Remarks -- Part II: Reconstructing Patient Perspectives -- Chapter 6: Experiences of the Madhouse in England, 1650-1810 -- To the Madhouse -- In the Madhouse -- Perceptions of the Proprietor -- Conclusions -- Chapter 7: "Tells his Story Quite Rationally and Collectedly": Examining the Casebooks of the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, 1890-1910, for Cases of Delusion Where Patients Voiced their Life Stories -- The Life Stories and Testimonies of Sanity Given by the Patients -- Cross-examination of a Patient's Personal Account of Restored Sanity -- Personal Accounts of Institutionalisation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Dehumanizing Experience, Rehumanizing Self-Awareness: Perception of Violence in Psychiatric Hospitals of Soviet Lithuania -- Patient View and Medical Gaze -- The Hidden Power of Medical Discourse: The Externalization of the Self -- In Alignment with Medical Discourse: Violence as a Result of Disorder -- Shelter of Medical Discourse: Violence as an Enforcement of Madness -- Conclusions -- Chapter 9: "I Like My Job because It Will Get Me Out Quicker": Work, Independence, and Disability at Indiana's Central State Hospital (1986-1993) -- Work and Disability -- Central State Hospital -- Methodology -- Results: Patient Goals and Experiences of Work -- Staff Goals and Policy Changes During the Closure -- Chapter 10: "More than Bricks and Mortar": Meaningful Care Practices in the Old State Mental Hospitals -- Introduction -- Background -- Methodology -- Contested Meanings of Institutional Care -- Community Psychiatry at the Nottingham Mental Hospitals -- Fragmentation of Services in Community -- Experiencing Neglect in Community -- Conclusion -- Data Access Statement -- Part III: The Visual and the Material -- Chapter 11: Tracking Traces of the Art Extraordinary Collection -- Archives, Voices and Traces.

Gym Hall, Barlinnie Prison -- An Unmarked Grave, Sleepyhillock Cemetery -- Conclusions -- Chapter 12: Patient Photographs, Patient Voices: Recovering Patient Experience in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum -- Introduction -- The 'Voice' of a Photograph -- A Picture Tells a Thousand Words? -- Multiple Voices -- Conclusion -- Chapter 13: A Boundary Between Two Worlds? Community Perceptions of Former Asylums in Lancashire, England -- Introduction -- An Image of Fear and Isolation -- Methodology -- Lancaster Moor and Whittingham Hospitals: A Brief History -- Memory and Legacy -- Former Asylums as Heritage -- Conclusions -- Part IV: Mad Studies and Activism -- Chapter 14: Brutal Sanity and Mad Compassion: Tracing the Voice of Dorothea Buck -- On Voice and the Obstacles to Voicing Madness -- Historiography and Framing the Study of the Voice of the Mad -- Biographical Aspects -- Towards a Genealogy of Dorothea's Voice -- Past and Present Intertwined: Researching Literature and Searching for Allies -- Seeking Allies -- Voice and Emotional Labour: Dealing with the Challenge of Power Structures -- Framing in Terms of Contradictions and Paradoxes: Her Memoirs -- Voicing Mad Wisdom -- In Conclusion: Emergence of a New Expertise -- Chapter 15: Mad Activists and the Left in Ontario, 1970s to 2000 -- Introduction: Mad Activists, Identity Politics and the Left -- Deinstitutionalization in Canada -- Disability and Mad Movement Activists in Ontario -- Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation and Ontario's Mad Movement -- Class, Unions and Mad People's Civil Rights -- Conclusion -- Chapter 16: Knowing Our Own Minds: Transforming the Knowledge Base of Madness and Distress -- Finding Our Voices: A Brief History -- Letting Stories Breathe: The Power of Personal Narratives -- Finding Safe Spaces -- Experiential Knowledge -- The Role of Survivor Research -- The Challenges....

Looking to the Future -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 17: Making Public Their Use of History: Reflections on the History of Collective Action by Psychiatric Patients, the Oor Mad History Project and Survivors History Group -- Introduction -- The Disappearance of Patient Views and Voices in the History of Medicine -- A Twentieth-Century Turning Point: From Formal Systems and Functionalist Grids to the Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges -- A 'Question of Levels': Doing History from 'A Level Below Which You Cannot Sink' -- Conclusion: Making Public Use of History Requires Embracing That Sinking Feeling of Difficulty and Conflict -- References -- Chapter 18: Often, When I Am Using My Voice... It Does Not Go Well: Perspectives on the Service User Experience -- Introduction -- The Social and Political Background to Contemporary Models of Mental Health Care -- The Policy Context -- Is Social Media the Future for Youth Mental Health Support? -- Mitigating the Risks of Social Media -- The Voice of Lived Experience -- Conclusion -- Chapter 19: Coda: Speaking Madness: Word, Image, Action -- Making Sense of Madness -- Word, Image, Action -- Correction to: Mental Health in the Vernacular: Print and Counter-Hegemonic Approaches to Madness in Colonial Bengal -- Name Index -- Place Index -- Subject Index.