Narrating the Heritage of Psychiatry

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-51983-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Narratives and Mental Health

This volume highlights the importance of diverse voices and perspectives in understanding the history and heritage of psychiatry. Exploring the complex interrelations between psychiatry, heritage and power, Narrating the Heritage of Psychiatry complicates the pervasive biomedical narrative of progress in which the history of psychiatry is usually framed. By examining multiple perspectives, including those of users/survivors of mental health services, the collection sheds light on neglected narratives and aims to broaden our understanding of psychiatric history and current practices. In doing so, it also considers the role of art, activism, and community narratives in reimagining and recontextualizing psychiatric heritage. This volume brings into conversation perspectives from practitioners, patients/users and scholars from the humanities and social sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Punzi, Elisabeth

Wächter, Cornelia

Singer, Christoph

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Elisabeth Punzi, Christoph Singer and Cornelia Wächter

1 Artist’s Statement

Marta Wandt

2 Unsettling the Past: Creating a Multi-Vocal Heritage of Exminster Hospital through Co-Production and Performance

Nicole Baur

3 Lillhagen Is Still Elsewhere: Approaching a Dismantled Mental Hospital

Elisabeth Punzi and Helena Lindbom

4 Narratives of De-Institutionalisation: Patient and Community Responses to Mental Hospital Closures in England

Rob Ellis and Rob Light

5 From Paternalism to Social Inclusion? User Organisations’ Narratives of Psychiatric Services in Sweden

Veikko Pelto-Piri and Jenny Wetterling

6 Plaques, Politics and Preservation: Publicly Memorialising Mad People’s Labour History

Geoffrey Reaume

7 Street Names and the Narration of Madness in a Post-Asylum Landscape

Cecilia Rodéhn

8 Normality Narrative in the Context of the Lunatic Rights Movement

Tomke Hinrichs

9 “The Small Point through which Time Passes” – Art and Artistic Practices in Former Mental Healthcare Institutions

Hedvig Mårdh

10 Re-Assembling the Social in So Called “Mental Illness”? Reflections on the Uses of Material Culture in the Historiography of Psychiatry and in Mad Studies

Elena Demke

11 “There Was an Awful Lot that Was Good and that Was Necessary”: the Hidden Heritage of the Old State Mental Hospitals

Verusca Calabria

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elisabeth Punzi, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work and Center for Critical heritage Studies, Gothenburg University. She researches the heritage of psychiatry and the meaning of creative expressions for persons recovering from mental health issues.

Christoph Singer, Ph.D., is Professor of British and Anglophone Cultural Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He published Sea Change: The Shore from Shakespeare to Banville (Brill Rodopi, 2014) and is co-editor of Narrative and Mental Health: Reimagining Theory and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Cornelia Wächter, Ph.D., is Professor of British Cultural Studies at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. Her publications include Place-ing the Prison Officer (Brill, 2015) and, as co-editor, Negotiating Institutional Heritage and Wellbeing (Brill Rodopi, 2021).