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Doing Psychiatry in Postwar Europe: Practices, Routines and Experiences

Doing Psychiatry in Postwar Europe: Practices, Routines and Experiences

Gahlen, Gundula
Hess, Volker
Scarfone, Marianna

Hardcover

Series: Social Histories of Medicine, Book 62

Medical ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1526173468
ISBN13: 9781526173461
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Apr 16 2024
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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.

An electronic version of this title is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) licence and can be downloaded from manchesterhive.

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