Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and The Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-420-0785-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

'Anti-psychiatry' is a movement more sloganized than analysed. Until now it has been associated in the English-speaking world primarily with R.D. Laing and a coterie of his associates, and a radical critique not just of psychiatric hospitalization but of the very premises of psychiatry itself and the basic institutions of society, especially the family.
But are these notions accurate, or rather distorted images, created by Laing himself or by the media? In this book, which has emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch conference held in June 1997, the realities of critical psychiatry are explored, using comparisons and contrasts between the British and the Dutch experiences as a probe. There were, it turns out, various distinct anti-psychiatries - indeed, hardly anybody actually used that label about themselves - and they played a role in the reform no less than the rejection of regular psychiatry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke

Porter, Roy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and the Netherlands

Marijke GIJSWIJT-HOFSTRA

Restructuring Mental Health Services in Twentieth-Century Britain

Joan BUSFIELD

Dutch Psychiatry after World War II: An Overview

Paul SCHNABEL

Before Anti-Psychiatry: 'Mental Health' in Wartime Britain

Mathew THOMSON

Psychiatry and Society: The Dutch Mental Hygiene Movement 1924-1960

Leonie DE GOEI

'They Used to Call it Psychiatry': Aspects of the Development and Impact of Psychopharmacology

E.M. TANSEY

LSD and the Dualism between Medical and Social Theories of Mental Illness

Stephen SNELDERS

R.D. Laing in Scotland: Facts and Fictions of the 'Rumpus Room' and Interpersonal Psychiatry

Jonathan ANDREWS

Messiah of the Schizophrenics: Jan Foudraine and Anti-Psychiatry in Holland

Gemma BLOK

The Dennendal Experiment, 1969-1974: The Legacy of a Tolerant Educative Culture

Ido WEIJERS

Enemies Within: Postwar Bethlem and the Maudsley Hospital

Keir WADDINGTON

The Changing Professional Identity of the Dutch Psychiatrist 1960-1970

Harry OOSTERHUIS & Saskia WOLTERS

From the Asylum to the Community: The Mental Patient in Postwar Britain

Peter BARHAM

The Battle Against Peace-Keeping Frustrations: Psychiatrists and Psychologists in the Dutch Army

Hans BINNEVELD

Anti-Psychiatry and the Family: Taking the Long View

Roy PORTER

Raising the Anti: Jan Foudraine, Ronald Laing and Anti-Psychiatry

Colin JONES

The View from the North Sea

David INGLEBY

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mariijke Gijswijt-Hofstra is Professor of Social and Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam. She has published on the granting of asylum in the Dutch Republic, deviance and tolerance (16-20th centuries), witchcraft and cultures of misfortune (16-20th centuries), the reception of homœpathy in the Netherlands (19-20th centuries), and on women and alternative health care in the Netherlands (20th century). She has recently edited in English, with Hilary Marland and Hans de Waardt, Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe (London: Routledge, 1997).

Roy Porter is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Recent books include Doctor of Society: Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late Enlightenment England (London: Routledge, 1991), London: A Social History (Hamish Hamilton, 1994), and ‘The Greates Benefit to Mankind’: A Medical History of Humanity (London: HarperCollins, 1997). He is currently working on a general history of the Enlightenment in Britain. He is interested in eighteenth century medicine, the history of psychiatry and the history of quackery.