Doing Psychiatry in Postwar Europe

Practices, Routines and Experiences

Author: Gundula Gahlen, Henriette Voelker, Volker Hess and Marianna Scarfone Series: Social Histories of Medicine

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Looking closely at practices that contributed to reshape the psychiatric field in the second half of the twentieth century, Doing psychiatry offers new insights into a mental health assistance in transformation after World War II.

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Doing psychiatry engages with the history of European psychiatry in the second half of the twentieth century through a close and fresh look at the practices that contributed to reshape the mental health field.

Case studies from across Europe allow readers to appreciate how new 'ways of doing' contributed to transform the field, beyond the watchwords of deinstitutionalisation, the prescription of neuroleptics, centrality of patients and overcoming of asylum-era habits. Through a variety of sources and often adopting a small-scale perspective, the chapters take a close look at the way new practices emerged and at how they installed themselves, eventually facing resistance, injecting new purposes and contributing to enlarging psychiatry's fields of expertise, therefore blurring its once-more-defined boundaries.

About the Author

Gahlen is a research associate at Ludwig-Maximilians-University. Hess is chair of the Institute for the History of Medicine atthe Charite Medical School. Scarfone is an associate professor at Strasbourg University. Voelker is a research associate at the Institute for the History of Medicine.