Material Cultures of Psychiatry

Material Cultures of Psychiatry

Author: Monika Ankele

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2020-10-31

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 3839447887

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In the past, our ideas of psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. These powerful objects were often used as a synonym for psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients were treated, yet very little is known about the agency of these objects and their appropriation by staff and patients. By focusing on material cultures, this book offers a new perspective on the history of psychiatry: it enables a narrative in which practicing psychiatry is part of a complex entanglement in which power is constantly negotiated. Scholars from different academic disciplines show how this material-based approach opens up new perspectives on the agency and imagination of men and women inside psychiatry.


Material Cultures of Psychiatry

Material Cultures of Psychiatry

Author: Monika Ankele

Publisher: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner

Published: 2020-04

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9783837647884

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In the past, our ideas on psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. By focusing on material cultures, this book offers a new perspective on the history of psychiatry as a complex entanglement where power is permanently negotiated.


The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada

The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada

Author: William Francis Drewry

Publisher: Sagwan Press

Published: 1916

Total Pages: 990

ISBN-13:

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The Architecture of Madness

The Architecture of Madness

Author: Carla Yanni

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780816649396

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A Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia and Tasmania

A Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia and Tasmania

Author: Susan Piddock

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0387733868

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Employing the considerable archaeological and historical skills in her armory, Susan Piddock tries to lift the lid on the lunatic asylums of years gone by. Films and television programs have portrayed them as places of horror where the patients are restrained and left to listen to the cries of their fellow inmates in despair. But what was the world of nineteenth century lunatic asylums really like? Are these images true, or are we laboring under a misunderstanding?