Memory, anniversaries and mental health in international historical perspective : faith in reform / Rebecca Wynter, Jennifer Wallis, Rob Ellis, editors.
Wynter, Rebecca.; Wallis, Jennifer, 1983-; Ellis, Rob.
2023
BF371 .M45 2023
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Memory, anniversaries and mental health in international historical perspective : faith in reform / Rebecca Wynter, Jennifer Wallis, Rob Ellis, editors.
ISBN
9783031229787 electronic book
3031229789 electronic book
3031229770
9783031229770
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22978-7
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer, [2023]
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English
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1 online resource
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10.1007/978-3-031-22978-7 doi
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BF371 .M45 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
612.823312
Summary
This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry and mental health. It challenges simplistic representations of the callous nature of mental health care in the past, while at the same time eschewing a celebratory and uncritical marking of anniversaries and individuals. Asking critical questions of the early Whiggish histories of mental health care, the book problematizes the idea of a shared professional and institutional history, and the abiding faith placed in the reform of medicine, administration, and even patients. It contends that much post-1800 legislation drafted to ensure reform, acted to preserve beliefs about the bad old days and a brighter future in the state memories of imperial powers, which in turn exported these notions around the world. Conversely, the collection demonstrates the variety of remembering and forgetting, building on recent interest in the ideological and cultural linkages between past and present in international psychiatric practice. In this way, it seeks to trace the pathways of memory, exploring the direction of travel, and the perpetuation, remodeling, and uprooting of recollection. Chapter The New Socialist Citizen and Forgetting Authoritarianism: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Revolution in Socialist Yugoslavia is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer. com. Rebecca Wynter is a historian at the Universities of Amsterdam and Birmingham. She has published widely on the histories of psychiatry, mental health, neurology, first response, and so-called conversion therapy. She is active in public history, working with museums, institutions and people to reveal the past. Jennifer Wallis is a Medical Humanities Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine at Imperial College London, UK. She has published widely on the nineteenth-century asylum and the history of medicine in the Victorian period. Rob Ellis is a Reader in History at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has published widely on the histories of mental ill-health and learning disability and has worked in partnership to co-produce projects that have emphasized their contemporary relevance. .
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Wynter, Rebecca.
Wallis, Jennifer, 1983-
Ellis, Rob.
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Mental health in historical perspective.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Marking Time: Memory, Mental Health, and Making Minds
Remembering the 'Bad Old Days'
Repositories of Memory: Structures, People, Praxis
Part I: Governance
Part II: Practitioners
Part III: Casebooks
Part IV: Oral Histories
Part V: Personal Recollections
Notes
Governance
Carrying on with 'Common-Sense': Rebuffing Reform in Bombay's Lunatic Asylums, 1894-1933
The Tale of the 'veritable Cinderella'40
The Elusive Glass Slipper of Reform

A New Name for Cinderella: The Asylum Nomenclature Controversy
Conclusion
Notes
The New Socialist Citizen and 'Forgetting' Authoritarianism: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Revolution in Socialist Yugoslavia
Introduction
Socialist Revolution and 'Reactionary' Biological Psychiatry
A Moment of Fear and Ambivalence
Building an Activist Psychoanalysis
'Revolutionary Personality': Psychiatry of Non-Alignment
Conclusion
Notes
Practitioners
Appropriating Wilhelm Griesinger's Asylum Reform Legacy (1868-2018): Some Reflections on Historiographic Narratives of Failure

Introduction: Griesinger's Contested Legacies
A Synopsis of Griesinger's Reform Programme
The Obituaries of 1868/69
The 25th Anniversary of Griesinger's Death (1893) and the Early Twentieth Century
The 60th Anniversary of the Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases (1927)
The Elision of Griesinger's Reform Legacy in the Mid Twentieth Century
1967/68: The Triple Anniversaries and a Griesinger 'Renaissance'
Evolving Narratives of Failure: Griesinger's Reform Legacy After the Psychiatrie-Enquête
Conclusion: Moving Beyond Narratives of Failure
Notes

Remodelling the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna: Memories, Museums, and Curatorial Considerations
Notes
Casebooks
Madness, Memory and Delusion in Late Nineteenth-Century Colonial Barbados
Introduction
The Unreformed Asylum
Marginalised People
Conclusions
Notes
Gone but not Forgotten: Acts of Remembrance in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Asylum
Introduction: Forgetting and Losing in the Total Institution
Remembering Photographs in the Institution
Temporal and Spatial Disruption
Networks, Relationships, and 'Circuits' of Feeling
Conclusion

Notes
The Institute for Imbecile Children: Remembering the Lives and Experiences of the Patients
Routes to the Institute
Daily Life and Experiences at the Institute
Transfer Routes
Casebook Photographs
Conclusion
Notes
Oral Histories
Surprise and Nostalgia: Staff Narrate the Closure of an American Psychiatric Hospital
Oral History and Narrative
Surprise
Nostalgia
Conclusions
Notes
An Exploration of the Function of Nostalgia in Oral Histories of Institutional Care
Introduction
Nostalgia and Oral History

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