Doing psychiatry in postwar Europe : : Practices, routines and experiences / / ed. by Marianna Scarfone, Gundula Gahlen, Volker Hess, Henriette Voelker.

• MitwirkendeR: Ankele, Monika,; Csikós, Gábor,; Gahlen, Gundula,; Hess, Volker,; Kritsotaki, Despo,; Majerus, Benoît,; Malathouni, Christina,; Meier, Marietta,; Niget, David,; Parhi, Katariina,; Scarfone, Marianna,; Serina, Florent,; Setaro, Marica,; Slagstad, Ketil,; Voelker, Henriette,
• HerausgeberIn: Gahlen, Gundula,; Hess, Volker,; Scarfone, Marianna,; Voelker, Henriette,
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester : : Manchester University Press, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Social Histories of Medicine ; 62
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction -- I Visions and dreams -- 1 New practices, new institutions -- 2 The Gorizia experiment -- 3 Social psychiatry in the making -- 4 ‘The general atmosphere of this admission unit is reassuring and optimistic’ -- II Experimentation -- 5 Non-hierarchical experimentation -- 6 Last resort or early intervention -- 7 Treating mutism in Hungarian child psychiatry, 1957–60 -- III Reflections -- 8 Changing attitudes -- 9 In the wake of Goffman? Doing social sciences at the site of psychiatry in Austria -- 10 Writing patients -- IV Crossing institutional boundaries -- 11 Neuroleptics outside psychiatry -- 12 Psychiatric practices beyond psychiatry -- Index