Doing psychiatry in postwar Europe : practices, routines and experiences /

This collective volume looks at European psychiatry in the second half of the twentieth century through a variety of practices that were experienced and routinised in the mental health field after World War II. Case studies from across Europe allow one to appreciate how new 'ways of doing'...

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Other Authors:	Gahlen, Gundula, 1974- (Editor), Hess, Volker, 1962- (Editor), Scarfone, Marianna (Editor), Voelker, Henriette (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024
Subjects:	Psychotherapy > Europe > History > 20th century. Social psychiatry. Psychotropic drugs > History. Medicine. Community Psychiatry Medicine Psychiatrie sociale. Psychotropes > Histoire. Médecine. medicine (discipline) MEDICAL / History. Cold War. antipsychiatry. deinstitutionalisation. expertise. historical praxeology. patient history. psychopharmaceuticals. psychotherapy. social psychiatry. transgender medical history. Electronic books.
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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