Psychiatric Cultures Compared
Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
456 pages
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6-1/4 x 9-1/2
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© 2006
The comparative global history of mental health care in the twentieth century remains relatively uncharted territory. Psychiatric Cultures Compared offers an overview of various national psychiatric cultures, comparing, for example, advances in Dutch psychiatry with developments abroad. Wide-ranging essays cover analyses of the field of psychiatric nursing, the changing use of psychotropic medicine, the emergence of in- and outpatient mental health sectors, the rise of the anti-psychiatry movement, and a critical look at modern day deinstitutionalization.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Comparing National Cultures of Psychiatry
Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra and Harry Oosterhuis
Overviews: Psychiatry and Mental Health Care
1. Within and Outside the Walls of the Asylum: Caring for the Dutch Mentally Ill, 1884-2000
Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
2. Insanity and Other Discomforts: A Century of Outpatient Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Netherlands, 1900-2000
Harry Oosterhuis
3. Madness and Autonomy: The Moral Agenda of Anti-psychiatry in the Netherlands
Gemma Blok
4. Psychiatry and the State in Britain
Hugh Freeman
5. The Transformation of Mental Health Policy in Twentieth-Century America
Gerald N. Grob
6. Continuities or Ruptures? Concepts, Institutions, and Contexts of Twentieth-Century German Psychiatry and Mental Health Care
Volker Roelcke
7. Care and Control in a Communist State: The Place of Politics in East German Psychiatry
Greg Eghigian
8. Between the National Socialist 'Euthanasia Programme' and Reform: Asylum Psychiatry in West Germany, 1940-1975
Franz-Werner Kersting
9. 'Misery' and 'Revolution': The Organisation of French Psychiatry, 1900-1980
Jean-Christophe Coffin
10. Outpatient Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century: International Perspectives
Harry Oosterhuis
Psychiatric Patients
11. Out and In: The Family and the Asylum. Pattern of Admission and Discharge in Three Dutch Psychiatric Hospitals 1890-1950
Joost Vijselaar
12. Were Asylums Men's Places? Male Excess in the Asylum Population in Japan in the Early Twentieth Century
Akihito Suzuki
13. Madness in the Home: Family Care and Welfare Policies in Italy before Fascism
Patrizia Guarnieri
Psychiatric Nursing
14. Changing Attitudes towards 'Non-Restraint' in Dutch Psychiatric Nursing, 1897-1994
Cecile aan de Stegge
15. Nurses in Swedish Psychiatric Care
Gunnel Svedberg
Psychotropic Drugs
16. Mental Ills and the 'Hidden History' of Drug Treatment Practices
Toine Pieters and Stephen Snelders
Reflections
17. From Exploration to Synthesis: Making New Sense of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century
Frank Huisman
18. Progress, Patients, Professionals and the Psyche. Comments on Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century
Ido de Haan and James Kennedy
About the Contributors
Index
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