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

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’ contri...

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Place / Publishing House:Manchester : : Manchester University Press, , [2024]
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Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
Series:Social Histories of Medicine ; 62
Physical Description:1 online resource
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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