Hugh Freeman / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra / Harry Oosterhuis / Joost Vijselaar (eds.)

Psychiatric Cultures Compared

Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century
Herausgeber: Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke; Vijselaar, Joost; Oosterhuis, Harry

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Produktbeschreibung

The history of mental health care in the twentieth century is a relatively uncharted territory. Exemplifying a new emphasis on the comparative approach, this volume offers overviews of various national psychiatric cultures and explores new research subjects. By confronting Dutch psychiatry with developments abroad, this collection highlights interesting contrasts and analogies. Some articles focus on the interaction between asylums and the family, others address issues such as psychiatric nursing, psychotropic drugs, the organisation and policies in the field of psychiatry, the role of various professions, the development of the inand outpatient mental health sectors, anti-psychiatry and de-institutionalisation. Several authors bring in the broader social and cultural context, such as the two World Wars, the welfare state, gender and class relations, the protest movement of the 1960s, democratisation, and totalitarian regimes. Two broad reflective reviews, one historiographic and the other contextual and comparative, conclude the volume.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 789g
• ISBN-13: 9789053567999
• ISBN-10: 9053567992
• Artikelnr.: 22061259

Autorenporträt

Harry H. Oosterhuis; Marijke M. Gijswijt-Hofstra, Hugh H. Freeman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Comparing National Cultures of Psychiatry
Overviews Psychiatry and Mental Health Care
1 Within and Outside the Walls of the Asylum: Caring for the Dutch Mentally Ill
1884-2000
2 Insanity and Other Discomforts: A Century of Outpatient Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Netherlands 1900-2000
3 Madness and Autonomy: The Moral Agenda of Anti-psychiatry in the Netherlands
4 Psychiatry and the State in Britain
5 The Transformation of Mental Health Policy in Twentieth-Century America
6 Continuities or Ruptures? Concepts
Institutions and Contexts of Twentieth-Century German Psychiatry and Mental Health Care
7 Care and Control in a Communist State: The Place of Politics in East German Psychiatry
8 Between the National Socialist 'Euthanasia Programme' and Reform: Asylum Psychiatry in West Germany
1940-1975
9 'Misery' and 'Revolution': The Organisation of French Psychiatry
1900-1980
10 Outpatient Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century: International Perspectives
11 Out and In: The Family and the Asylum. Patterns of Admission and Discharge in Three Dutch Psychiatric Hospitals 1890-1950
12 Were Asylums Men's Places? Male Excess in the Asylum Population in Japan in the Early Twentieth Century
13 Madness in the Home: Family Care and Welfare Policies in Italy before Fascism
14 Changing Attitudes towards 'Non-Restraint' in Dutch Psychiatric Nursing
1897-1994
15 Nurses in Swedish Psychiatric Care
16 Mental Ills and the 'Hidden History' of Drug Treatment Practices
17 From Exploration to Synthesis: Making New Sense of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century
18 Progress
Patients
Professionals and the Psyche. Comments on Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century
Index
About the Contributors