Full Description
This volume highlights the importance of diverse voices and perspectives in understanding the history and heritage of psychiatry. Exploring the complex interrelations between psychiatry, heritage and power, Narrating the Heritage of Psychiatry complicates the pervasive biomedical narrative of progress in which the history of psychiatry is usually framed. By examining multiple perspectives, including those of users/survivors of mental health services, the collection sheds light on neglected narratives and aims to broaden our understanding of psychiatric history and current practices. In doing so, it also considers the role of art, activism, and community narratives in reimagining and recontextualizing psychiatric heritage. This volume brings into conversation perspectives from practitioners, patients/users and scholars from the humanities and social sciences.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Elisabeth Punzi, Christoph Singer and Cornelia Wächter
1 Artist's Statement
Marta Wandt
2 Unsettling the Past: Creating a Multi-Vocal Heritage of Exminster Hospital through Co-Production and Performance
Nicole Baur
3 Lillhagen Is Still Elsewhere: Approaching a Dismantled Mental Hospital
Elisabeth Punzi and Helena Lindbom
4 Narratives of De-Institutionalisation: Patient and Community Responses to Mental Hospital Closures in England
Rob Ellis and Rob Light
5 From Paternalism to Social Inclusion? User Organisations' Narratives of Psychiatric Services in Sweden
Veikko Pelto-Piri and Jenny Wetterling
6 Plaques, Politics and Preservation: Publicly Memorialising Mad People's Labour History
Geoffrey Reaume
7 Street Names and the Narration of Madness in a Post-Asylum Landscape
Cecilia Rodéhn
8 Normality Narrative in the Context of the Lunatic Rights Movement
Tomke Hinrichs
9 "The Small Point through which Time Passes" - Art and Artistic Practices in Former Mental Healthcare Institutions
Hedvig Mårdh
10 Re-Assembling the Social in So Called "Mental Illness"? Reflections on the Uses of Material Culture in the Historiography of Psychiatry and in Mad Studies
Elena Demke
11 "There Was an Awful Lot that Was Good and that Was Necessary": the Hidden Heritage of the Old State Mental Hospitals
Verusca Calabria
Index
