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Memory, Anniversaries and Mental Health in International Historical Perspective

Faith in Reform

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Editors:
  1. Rebecca Wynter

    1. Amsterdam School of Historical Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Jennifer Wallis

    1. Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK

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  3. Rob Ellis

    1. School of Music, Humanities and Media, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK

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  • Explores the importance of memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of mental health
  • Examines recent histories of psychiatry from both the patient and doctor perspective as well as other perspectives
  • Employs an unusual range of methodologies, including case notes, medical publications, oral histories and more

Part of the book series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective (MHHP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Marking Time: Memory, Mental Health, and Making Minds

    • Rebecca Wynter, Rob Ellis, Jennifer Wallis
    Pages 1-35

  6. Oral Histories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Surprise and Nostalgia: Staff Narrate the Closure of an American Psychiatric Hospital

      • Elizabeth Nelson, Emily Beckman, Modupe Labode
      Pages 211-229

    3. An Exploration of the Function of Nostalgia in Oral Histories of Institutional Care

      • Verusca Calabria
      Pages 231-255

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 303-314
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About this book

This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry and mental health. It challenges simplistic representations of the callous nature of mental health care in the past, while at the same time eschewing a celebratory and uncritical marking of anniversaries and individuals. Asking critical questions of the early Whiggish histories of mental health care, the book problematizes the idea of a shared professional and institutional history, and the abiding faith placed in the reform of medicine, administration, and even patients. It contends that much post-1800 legislation drafted to ensure reform, acted to preserve beliefs about the ‘bad old days’ and a ‘brighter future’ in the state memories of imperial powers, which in turn exported these notions around the world. Conversely, the collection demonstrates the variety of remembering and forgetting, building on recent interest in the ideological and cultural linkages between pastand present in international psychiatric practice. In this way, it seeks to trace the pathways of memory, exploring the direction of travel, and the perpetuation, remodeling, and uprooting of recollection.

Chapter “The New Socialist Citizen and ‘Forgetting’ Authoritarianism: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Revolution in Socialist Yugoslavia” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer. com.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Amsterdam School of Historical Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Rebecca Wynter

  • Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Jennifer Wallis

  • School of Music, Humanities and Media, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK

    Rob Ellis

About the editors

Rebecca Wynter is a historian at the Universities of Amsterdam and Birmingham. She has published widely on the histories of psychiatry, mental health, neurology, first response, and so-called ‘conversion therapy’. She is active in public history, working with museums, institutions and people to reveal the past.

Jennifer Wallis is a Medical Humanities Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine at Imperial College London, UK. She has published widely on the nineteenth-century asylum and the history of medicine in the Victorian period.

Rob Ellis is a Reader in History at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has published widely on the histories of mental ill-health and learning disability and has worked in partnership to co-produce projects that have emphasized their contemporary relevance.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Memory, Anniversaries and Mental Health in International Historical Perspective

  • Book Subtitle: Faith in Reform

  • Editors: Rebecca Wynter, Jennifer Wallis, Rob Ellis

  • Series Title: Mental Health in Historical Perspective

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22978-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22977-0Published: 20 July 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22980-0Due: 20 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22978-7Published: 19 July 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6036

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6044

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 314

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Social History, Memory Studies, History of Medicine, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Science, Psychiatry

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