Doing Psychiatry in Postwar Europe

Practices, Routines and Experiences

Gundula Gahlen, Volker Hess, Marianna Scarfone , Henriette Voelker

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Manchester University Press
16 April 2024

History of medicine; Psychiatry

Series: Social Histories of Medicine

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.

Edited by: Gundula Gahlen, Volker Hess, Marianna Scarfone, Henriette Voelker
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781526173461
ISBN 10: 1526173468
Series: Social Histories of Medicine
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 16 April 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gundula Gahlen is a research associate at Ludwig-Maximilians-University. Volker Hess is chair of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Charité Medical School. Marianna Scarfone is an associate professor at Strasbourg University. Henriette Voelker is a research associate at the Institute for the History of Medicine. -- .