Material Cultures of Psychiatry

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2020

Material Cultures of Psychiatry

Edited by: Monika Ankele and Benoît Majerus

Volume 155 in the series Histoire

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839447888

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About this book

In the past, our ideas on psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs and binding belts. These powerful objects are often used as a synonym for psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients are treated, but 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 gaze on the history of psychiatry: it allows a narrative which shows »doing psychiatry« to be a complex entanglement where power is permanently negotiated. Scholars from different social sciences show how this material gaze ensures a critical approach while opening up the field to alternative questions.

Author / Editor information

Monika Ankele (Dr. phil.) is curator at the Museum for Medical History in Hamburg and scientific assistant at the Department for History and Ethics of Medicine at the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf. Her research focuses on the history of psychiatry (patient's history, spatial, material and practice turn). She was awarded the Käthe-Leichter-Prize for Women's and Gender Studies (Austrian Ministry for Women and Public Services) and the Michael Mitterauer-Prize for Social, Cultural and Economic History (Austrian Ministry for Education, Science and Culture, City of Vienna, Institute for Social and Economic History).
Benoît Majerus (Dr. phil.), born 1975, teaches European history at the University of Luxembourg. His research focuses on the history of psychiatry in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Reviews

O-Ton: »Krankenbetten und Dauerbäder« - Zeitsprung-Extra mit Monika Ankele über Psychiatriegeschichte am 13.10.2020.
http://bit.ly/35iZCUZ

Besprochen in:
https://histoiresante.blogspot.com, 21.10.2020
https://historypsychiatry.com, 21.10.2020

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
CONTENT Open Access Download PDF	5
Aktion #1246a Christine Rehders Open Access Download PDF	8
Material Cultures of Psychiatry Monika Ankele and Benoît Majerus Open Access Download PDF	10
Pat. No. 25682 Viviane Stopp Open Access Download PDF	30
I. Scenography and Space
Oil on Canvas: An Isolation Cell Constructed by the k.k. Hofoperntheater for the Asylum Mascha Deneke Open Access Download PDF	42
Silent “Night of Madness”? Light, Voice, Sounds, and Space in the Illenau Asylum in Baden between 1842 and 1910 Kai Sammet Open Access Download PDF	44
“Le cabanon du fou”: Uses of the Shed As a Confinement Device for the Insane in French Rural Households in the 19th Century Anatole Le Bras Open Access Download PDF	74
“Amongst the Most Important of the Agencies”: Materializing “Nature” at the American Lunatic Asylum Linnea Kuglitsch Open Access Download PDF	96
Have a Seat!: Approaching the Object of the Chair at the Site of Psychiatry Lisa Landsteiner Open Access Download PDF	116
II. Transforming Practices
Have a Seat Raja Goltz Open Access Download PDF	138
The Fabric of Seclusion: Textiles As Media of (Spatial) Interaction in Isolation Cells of Mental Hospitals Monika Ankele Open Access Download PDF	140
Theories of the “Savage”: The Material Varek (Seagrass) As a Bearer of Meaning in Psychiatry around 1900 Katrin Luchsinger Open Access Download PDF	158
Untitled Lydia Oertelt Open Access Download PDF	184
The Uses and Misuses of Television in Long-Stay Psychiatric and “Mental Handicap” Wards, 1950s–1980s Louise Hide Open Access Download PDF	186
Buttons and Stimuli: The Material Basis of Electroconvulsive Therapy As a Place of Historical Change Max Gawlich Open Access Download PDF	202
III. Agents of Healing
Materiality Daniel Hoge Open Access Download PDF	226
“The Magical Device”: Temple Grandin’s Hug Machine Novina Göhlsdorf Open Access Download PDF	228
The Piano in the Asylum and the Insanity of the Composer: Two Variations on a Theme (with Interlude) Stefan Wulf Open Access Download PDF	256
The Effectiveness of Symbols: Psychogeographic Explorations of the Body Michelle Williams Gamaker Open Access Download PDF	282
IV. Bodies, Senses, and the Self
Loss of Identity Anne Wilk Open Access Download PDF	298
Lives in Storage: Clothes and Other Personal Effects As a Way of Recovering Patients’ Histories in a Psychiatric Hospital Marianna Scarfone Open Access Download PDF	300
A Corridor That Moves: Corporeal Encounters with Materiality in a Mental Hospital Kirsi Heimonen and Sari Kuuva Open Access Download PDF	334
Psychographics and the Materials of Time Measurement in Modern French Psychiatry Maia Isabelle Woolner Open Access Download PDF	354
V. Teaching Projects
Artistic Research on Things in/of Psychiatry: An Interdisciplinary Teaching Project Céline Kaiser Open Access Download PDF	380
Cover, Rip Up, Unwrap: Scenes with Material from the Mental Asylum. A Documentary Theater Based on Medical Records Anna Urbach Open Access Download PDF	386
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	408

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 416
Keywords: Psychoanalysis; Medicine; History of Medicine; Medical Ethics; History

eBook

Published: October 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839447888