Material Cultures of Psychiatry
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Histoire
ISBN-10
3837647889
ISBN-13
9783837647884
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Imprint
Transcript Verlag
Country of Manufacture
AT
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 10th, 2021
Print length
350 Pages
Weight
874 grams
Dimensions
17.30 x 23.90 x 2.80 cms
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Straitjackets, cribs and binding belts have shaped our ideas of psychiatry in the past. But what do we really know about these and other powerful psychiatric objects?
In the past, our ideas of psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. These powerful objects were often used as a synonym for psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients were treated, yet very little is known about the agency of these objects and their appropriation by staff and patients. By focusing on material cultures, this book offers a new perspective on the history of psychiatry: it enables a narrative in which practicing psychiatry is part of a complex entanglement in which power is constantly negotiated. Scholars from different academic disciplines show how this material-based approach opens up new perspectives on the agency and imagination of men and women inside psychiatry.
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