Knowledge and Power: Perspectives in the History of Psychiatry
Selected Papers from the Third Triennial Conference
of the European Association for the History of Psychiatry (EAHP),
11-14 September, Munich, Germany
Hg./Ed.: Engstrom, Eric J. / Weber, Matthias M. / Hoff, Paul
1999
238 p.
Hc
17 x 24 cm
engl.
EUR 38,00
ISBN 3-86135-770-4
Over the past several years, 'knowledge' and 'power' have become two of the most innovative and productive analytical categories in the history of psychiatry. More so than anyone else, Michel Foucault has been - depending on one's persuasion - either to thank or to blame for this historiographic development. Foucault's pronouncements on the history of psychiatry have spurred many young researchers to begin testing his theories against the historical evidence. Their work has exploited new source materials and asked new questions of that material. In the process they have encountered conflicting as well as corroborative evidence for Foucault's theories. Above all, however, their queries have deepened our understanding of psychiatry and its historical development as a human science. Some of the fruits of these labors have been harvested in the articles collected for this volume - a volume conceived as an invitation to explore the complex and shifting historical relationship of psychiatric knowledge and power.
Inhalt / Contents:
Preface
People -
W. Schäffner: From Psychiatry to History of Madness: Michel Foucault's Analysis of Power Technologies
D.B. Weiner: Observe and Heal: Philippe Pinel's Experiment at Salpétrière Hospice, 1802-1805
J. Belzen: Spiritual Power and Aspirations in Confessional Psychiatry: On the Development of a Psychological Psychiatry by Leendert Boumann
E. Shorter: Will the Real Franz Nissl Please Stand Up?
R. Steinberg: Robert Schumann's Illness in the Eyes of his Pathographers
Institutions -
J. Lázaro: Scientific Knowledge and Professional Power at the Birth of Spanish Psychiatric Institutions
E.D. Myers: Lunacy and the 1834 English Poor Law with Special Reference to the Stoke-upon-Trent Workhouse
J. Gasser / G. Heller: Social and Medical Criteria of Psychiatric Hospitalization in Lausanne and Geneva (Switzerland)
C. Cording: Griesinger's Diagnostic Classification and its Prognostic Validity: An Empirical Study
Therapies -
M. Kutzer: Knowledge and Therapy: Psychiatric Practice Sixteenth-Century-Style
A. Killen: Influencing Machines: Electrotherapy and Neurosis in Nineteenth Century Germany
Psychiatry and National Socialism -
G. Cocks: The Göring Institute, 1936-1945: Contents and Contexts of Knowledge and Power in German Psychiatry
K. Dörner: Die Endlösung der Sozialen Frage
A. Schäfer: Psychiatry as Biopolitics: The Dispositive of Homosexuality under National Socialism
G. Hohendorf / V. Roelcke / M. Rotzoll: Innovation without Ethical Restriction: Remarks on the History and Ethics of Psychiatric Research at the University of Heidelberg, 1941-1945
A. Greifenhagen: Psychiatric Research on Homelessness and Mental Illness in National Socialist Germany
M. Leonhardt: Forensic Psychiatry and National Socialism: A Methodological and Casuistic Approach
Psychoanalysis -
A. Tucker: The Genealogy of Incommensurability in Psychoanalysis
K. Libbrecht: Freud and Meynert's Clinical Knowledge: The Relevance of Amentia Reconsidered
D. Nobus: Freud and Krafft-Ebing as Kindred Spirits: A Re-evaluation of the Knowledge Governing a Powerful Historical Image
