Root of all evil is inactivity the response of French psychiatrists to new approaches to patient work and occupation, 1918-1939

Focusing on the varied responses of French psychiatrists to new theories of occupational therapy emerging after World War I, this chapter argues that the voices of psychiatrists in favour of the new methods were "drowned out" by those who continued to interpret mental disorder in purely or...

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Otros Autores: Freebody, John, author (author)
Formato: Seriada digital
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham (CH) : Palgrave Macmillan 2021.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Voices in the History of Madness: An Introduction to Personal and Professional Perspectives
  • Part I Shifting Perspectives in the Industry of Madness
  • 2 Accepted and Rejected: Late Nineteenth-Century Application for Admission to the Scottish National Institution for the Education of Imbecile Children
  • 3 Mental Health in the Vernacular: Print and Counter-Hegemonic Approaches to Madness in Colonial Bengal
  • 4 "The Root of All Evil is Inactivity": The Response of French Psychiatrists to New Approaches to Patient Work and Occupation, 1918-1939
  • 5 Distant Voices: Treatment of Mentally Ill Children at the Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark, c. 1935-1976
  • Part II Reconstructing Patient Perspectives
  • 6 Experiences of the Madhouse in England, 1650-1810
  • 7 "Tells his Story Quite Rationally and Collectedly": Examining the Casebooks of the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, 1890-1910, for Cases of Delusion Where Patients Voiced their Life Stories
  • 8 Dehumanizing Experience, Rehumanizing Self-Awareness: Perception of Violence in Psychiatric Hospitals of Soviet Lithuania
  • 9 "I Like My Job because It Will Get Me Out Quicker": Work, Independence, and Disability at Indiana's Central State Hospital (1986-1993)
  • 10 "More than Bricks and Mortar": Meaningful Care Practices in the Old State Mental Hospitals
  • Part III The Visual and the Material
  • 11 Tracking Traces of the Art Extraordinary Collection
  • 12 Patient Photographs, Patient Voices: Recovering Patient Experience in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum
  • 13 A Boundary Between Two Worlds? Community Perceptions of Former Asylums in Lancashire, England
  • Part IV Mad Studies and Activism
  • 14 Brutal Sanity and Mad Compassion: Tracing the Voice of Dorothea Buck
  • 15 Mad Activists and the Left in Ontario, 1970s to 2000
  • 16 Knowing Our Own Minds: Transforming the Knowledge Base of Madness and Distress
  • 17 Making Public Their Use of History: Reflections on the History of Collective Action by Psychiatric Patients, the Oor Mad History Project and Survivors History Group
  • 18 Often, When I Am Using My Voice ... It Does Not Go Well: Perspectives on the Service User Experience
  • 19 Coda: Speaking Madness: Word, Image, Action
  • 20 Correction to: Mental Health in the Vernacular: Print and Counter-Hegemonic Approaches to Madness in Colonial Bengal.