Encountering Crises of the Mind

Madness, Culture and Society, 1200s-1900s
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-30852-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 57, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: History of Science and Medicine Library

Mental health and madness have been challenging topics for historians. The field has been marked by tension between the study of power, expertise and institutional control of insanity, and the study of patient experiences. This collection contributes to the ongoing discussion on how historians encounter mental ‘crises’. It deals with diagnoses, treatments, experiences and institutions largely outside the mainstream historiography of madness – in what might be described as its peripheries and borderlands (from medieval Europe to Cold War Hungary, from the Atlantic slave coasts to Indian princely states, and to the Nordic countries). The chapters highlight many contests and multiple stakeholders involved in dealing with mental suffering, and the importance of religion, lay perceptions and emotions in crises of mind.

Contributors are Jari Eilola, Waltraud Ernst, Anssi Halmesvirta, Markku Hokkanen, Kalle Kananoja, Tuomas Laine-Frigrén, Susanna Niiranen, Anu Rissanen, Kirsi Tuohela, and Jesper Vaczy Kragh.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Laine-Frigren, Tuomas

Eilola, Jari

Hokkanen, Markku

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Sufferers, Specialists, Spaces and Society: Historical Approaches to Crises of the Mind

Tuomas Laine-Frigren, Markku Hokkanen and Jari Eilola

PART 1: Preclinical Definitions of Madness

2 Medical Knowledge of Mental Disorders and Their Cure in Latin and Vernacular Culture in Later Medieval Europe

Susanna Niiranen

3 Defining and Treating Madness in Local Communities of Early Modern Finland

Jari Eilola

4 Melancholy, Race and Slavery in the Early Modern Southern Atlantic World

Kalle Kananoja

PART 2: Modernisation and Crises of Mind: Changing Spaces, Voices and Sources

5 Hospitalised: Patients’ Voices in 19th-Century Finnish Newspapers

Kirsi Tuohela

6 Despair in Finnish: Consultation by Correspondence in Fin-de-Siècle Finland

Anssi Halmesvirta

7 In the Gray Area: Patient Records, Somatic Treatments and the History of Psychiatry in Denmark, 1936–1956

Jesper Vaczy Kragh

8 Treatment and Rehabilitation: Patients at Work in Finnish Mental Institutions

Anu Rissanen

part 3: Encountering Madness in the Peripheries

9 Emotionally Neglected or Deviant? Treating Childhood Neuroses in Communist Hungary during the Early 1960s

Tuomas Laine-Frigren

10 Psychiatry at the Periphery: the Case of Princely India, c. 1830–1900

Waltraud Ernst

11 ‘Madness’, Emotions and Loss of Control in a Colonial Frontier: Methodological Challenges of Crises of Mind

Markku Hokkanen

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tuomas Laine-Frigren, Ph.D (2016), University of Jyväskylä, is a postdoctoral researcher in General History at the Department of History and Ethnology. He has published articles on the history of psychology and mental health.



Jari Eilola, Ph.D (2003), University of Jyväskylä, is a senior researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology at the same university. He has published articles on the history of witchcraft, medicine and crime.



Markku Hokkanen, Ph.D (2006), University of Oulu, is a senior lecturer in history at the Department of History. He has published books and articles on histories of medicine, health and colonialism in South-Central Africa and the British Empire, including Medicine, mobility and the empire: Nyasaland networks, 1857¬-1960 (Manchester University Press, 2017).