Voices in the history of madness : : personal and professional perspectives on mental health and illness / / Robert Ellis, Sarah Kendal, Steven J. Taylor, editors.
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 a...
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| Superior document: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective Ser. |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham, Switzerland : : Palgrave Macmillan,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective Ser.
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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.