Doing Psychiatry in Postwar Europe : Practices, Routines and Experiences, Hardback Book

Doing Psychiatry in Postwar Europe : Practices, Routines and Experiences Hardback

Edited by Gundula Gahlen, Volker Hess, Marianna Scarfone, Henriette Voelker

Part of the Social Histories of Medicine series

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Doing psychiatry engages with the history of European psychiatry in the second half of the twentieth century through a close and fresh look at the practices that contributed to reshape the mental health field.

Case studies from across Europe allow readers to appreciate how new ‘ways of doing’ contributed to transform the field, beyond the watchwords of deinstitutionalisation, the prescription of neuroleptics, centrality of patients and overcoming of asylum-era habits.

Through a variety of sources and often adopting a small-scale perspective, the chapters take a close look at the way new practices emerged and at how they installed themselves, eventually facing resistance, injecting new purposes and contributing to enlarging psychiatry’s fields of expertise, therefore blurring its once-more-defined boundaries. -- .

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