Psycho-Politics between the World Wars

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Beschreibung

This book is about the psycho-political visions and programmes in early-twentieth century Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Amidst the political and social unrest that followed the First World War, psychiatrists attempted to use their clinical insights to understand, diagnose, and treat society at large. The book uses a variety of published and unpublished sources to retrace major debates, protagonists, and networks involved in the redrawing of the boundaries of psychiatry¿s sphere of authority. The book is based on three interconnected case studies: the overt pathologisation of the 1918/19 revolution led by right-wing German psychiatrists; the project of medical expansionism under the label of ¿applied psychiatry¿ in inter-war Vienna; and the attempt to unite and implement different approaches to psychiatric prophylaxis in the movement for mental hygiene. By exploring these histories, the book also sheds light on the emergence of ideas that still shape the field to the present day and shows the close connection between utopian promises and the worst abuses of psychiatry.

Über den Autor

David Freis is a Research Associate at the Institute for the Ethics, History, and Theory of Medicine at the University of Münster, Germany.

Zusammenfassung

Explores how German-speaking psychiatrists attempted to interpret, diagnose and treat both interwar society and politics from the perspective of their own clinical experiences

Argues for the importance of individual agency and individual experiences of political events, drawing on the biographies and careers of several eminent psychiatrists during the period

Examines the early history of some of the most important concepts which still shape the field of psychiatry today, including mental health, deinstitutionalisation and psychiatric prophylaxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 Diagnosing the Revolution.- 3 Applyied Psychiatry in Inter-War Vienna.- 4 Expansionism and Interdisciplinarity: Applied Psychopathology in the Interwar Period.- 5 Psychiatric Prophylaxis and the Emergence of Mental Hygiene.- 6 The Rise and Fall of Mental Hygiene.-

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	396
Reihe:	Mental Health in Historical Perspective
Inhalt:	ix 383 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 383 p. 1 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783030327040
ISBN-10:	3030327043
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Freis, David
Auflage:	1st ed. 2019
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Mental Health in Historical Perspective
Maße:	210 x 148 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	David Freis
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.11.2020
Gewicht:	0,511 kg

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