Material cultures of psychiatry / Monika Ankele, Benoît Majerus (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ankele, Monika, 1978- editor.

Majerus, Benoît, editor.

Series:

Histoire (Transcript (Firm))

Histoire

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry--Social aspects--History.

Psychiatry.

Material culture.

Psychiatry--Social aspects.

History.

Physical Description:

416 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2020]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: AT Aktion #1246a / Christine Rehders

Material Cultures of Psychiatry / Benoit Majerus

Pat. No. 25682 / Viviane Stopp

I. Scenography and Space

Oil on Canvas: An Isolation Cell Constructed by the k.k. Hofoperntheater for the Asylum / Mascha Deneke

Silent "Night of Madness"? Light, Voice, Sounds, and Space in the Illenau Asylum in Baden between 1842 and 1910 / Kai Sammet

"Le cabanon du fou": Uses of the Shed As a Confinement Device for the Insane in French Rural Households in the 19th Century / Anatole Le Bras

"Amongst the Most Important of the Agencies": Materializing "Nature" at the American Lunatic Asylum / Linnea Kuglitsch

Have a Seat!: Approaching the Object of the Chair at the Site of Psychiatry / Lisa Landsteiner

II. Transforming Practices

Have a Seat / Raja Goltz

The Fabric of Seclusion: Textiles As Media of (Spatial) Interaction in Isolation Cells of Mental Hospitals / Monika Ankele

Theories of the "Savage": The Material Varek (Seagrass) As a Bearer of Meaning in Psychiatry around 1900 / Katrin Luchsinger

Untitled / Lydia Oertelt

The Uses and Misuses of Television in Long-Stay Psychiatric and "Mental Handicap" Wards, 1950S-1980S / Louise Hide

Buttons and Stimuli: The Material Basis of Electroconvulsive Therapy As a Place of Historical Change / Max Gawlich

III. Agents of Healing

Materiality / Daniela Hoge

"The Magical Device": Temple Grandin's Hug Machine / Novina Gohlsdorf

The Piano in the Asylum and the Insanity of the Composer: Two Variations on a Theme (with Interlude) / Stefan Wulf

The Effectiveness of Symbols: Psychogeographic Explorations of the Body / Michelle Williams Gamaker

IV. Bodies, Senses, and the Self

Loss of Identity / Anne Wilk

Lives in Storage: Clothes and Other Personal Effects As a Way of Recovering Patients' Histories in a Psychiatric Hospital / Marianna Scarfone

A Corridor That Moves: Corporeal Encounters with Materiality in a Mental Hospital / Kirsi Heimonen

Psychographics and the Materials of Time Measurement in Modern French Psychiatry / Maia Isabelle Woolner

V. Teaching Projects

Artistic Research on Things in/of Psychiatry: An Interdisciplinary Teaching Project / Celine Kaiser

Cover, Rip Up, Unwrap: Scenes with Material from the Mental Asylum. A Documentary Theater Based on Medical Records / Anna Urbach.

Notes:

Series entry missing in the book.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

PDF version

ISBN:

9783837647884

3837647889

OCLC:

1129818888

Publisher Number:

99987674307

9783837647884