Forschung und Lehre Jahresbericht 2009 - ZfP Südwürttemberg

Kurzbezeichnung:
EUROPA 2
Projekt
tion of a memory of mental and psychic disease as well as of a memory of the
psychiatric institutions which care for and last but not least elaborate effective
forms of communication and documentation of the various aspects of relations
between psychiatry and society.
Period of realization: January 2009 – December 2012
Transnational Psychiatries. Social and cultural histories of psychiatry
in comparative perspective, c. 1800-2000
This collection will be of particular interest to scholars in the history of psychiatry,
psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and the sociology of health and illness.
Because of its interdisciplinary approach and international vantage
point, it will also appeal to colleagues in disciplines such as history of medicine
widely conceived, medical anthropology, social geography, and social policy –
in Britain, Continental Europe as well as in the United States and Australasia.
Currently there is no such wide-ranging yet thematically and methodologically
focused volume in the field.
The book focuses on psychiatry and mental health and illness in relation to 13
countries (Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the Pacific, India, Germany,
Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, France, England, Serbia, the United States of
America, Japan). It provides an extensive assessment of the development of
psychiatry, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy on four continents, covering
themes that range from psychiatry’s colonial world to issues of knowledge
transfer between competing European nation states; professional competition
over new therapeutics; the impact of political events and warfare on psychiatric
textbooks; the diversification of psychotherapeutic practices and reemerging
forms of patient care; anti-psychiatry’s impact on scientific debates;
and the forced and planned starvation of psychiatric patients under war time
conditions. Each of these themes will be approached from an inherently comparative
and transnational perspective, which means that no mere lip service
is paid to a comparative methodology by simply collating a selection of chapters
on diverse countries in one volume under the label ‘comparative’. The
comparative element is an integral part of each single chapter, rather than
leaving it up to the reader to compare particular issues highlighted in different
chapters.
Forschungsprojekt zur freien Publikation. Kooperationspartner: Prof. Dr. phil.
Waltraud Ernst Department of History, School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford
Brookes University, Oxford, England, Dr. Thomas Müller. Veröffentlichung:
Frühjahr 2010.
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