Overview
- 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)
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Personal Recollections
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About this book
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
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