Material Cultures of Psychiatry /
In the past, our ideas on psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs and binding belts. These powerful objects are often used as a synonym for psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients are treated, but very little is known about the agency of thes...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript-Verlag,
[2020]
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Colección: | Histoire ;
155 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENT
- Aktion #1246a
- Material Cultures of Psychiatry
- Pat. No. 25682
- I. Scenography and Space
- Oil on Canvas: An Isolation Cell Constructed by the k.k. Hofoperntheater for the Asylum
- Silent "Night of Madness"? Light, Voice, Sounds, and Space in the Illenau Asylum in Baden between 1842 and 1910
- "Le cabanon du fou": Uses of the Shed As a Confinement Device for the Insane in French Rural Households in the 19th Century
- "Amongst the Most Important of the Agencies": Materializing "Nature" at the American Lunatic Asylum
- Have a Seat!: Approaching the Object of the Chair at the Site of Psychiatry
- II. Transforming Practices
- Have a Seat
- The Fabric of Seclusion: Textiles As Media of (Spatial) Interaction in Isolation Cells of Mental Hospitals
- Theories of the "Savage": The Material Varek (Seagrass) As a Bearer of Meaning in Psychiatry around 1900
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- The Uses and Misuses of Television in Long-Stay Psychiatric and "Mental Handicap" Wards, 1950s-1980s
- Buttons and Stimuli: The Material Basis of Electroconvulsive Therapy As a Place of Historical Change
- III. Agents of Healing
- Materiality
- "The Magical Device": Temple Grandin's Hug Machine
- The Piano in the Asylum and the Insanity of the Composer: Two Variations on a Theme (with Interlude)
- The Effectiveness of Symbols: Psychogeographic Explorations of the Body
- IV. Bodies, Senses, and the Self
- Loss of Identity
- Lives in Storage: Clothes and Other Personal Effects As a Way of Recovering Patients' Histories in a Psychiatric Hospital
- A Corridor That Moves: Corporeal Encounters with Materiality in a Mental Hospital
- Psychographics and the Materials of Time Measurement in Modern French Psychiatry
- V. Teaching Projects
- Artistic Research on Things in/of Psychiatry: An Interdisciplinary Teaching Project
- Cover, Rip Up, Unwrap: Scenes with Material from the Mental Asylum. A Documentary Theater Based on Medical Records
- Notes on Contributors