Doing Psychiatry in Postwar Europe

Gundula Gahlen is a research associate at Ludwig-Maximilians-University. Volker Hess is chair of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Charité Medical School. Marianna Scarfone is an associate professor at Strasbourg University. Henriette Voelker is a research associate at the Institute for the History of Medicine.

• Just another turn? Practices, doing psychiatry and historiography – Volker Hess and Marianna ScarfonePart I – Visions and Dreams1 New practices, new institutions: Group psychotherapy in Greece and the Open Psychotherapy Centre of Athens, 1960s–80s – Despo Kritsotaki2 The Gorizia experiment: The genesis of therapeutic practices in Basaglia’s psychiatric community (1962–68) – Marica Setaro3 Social psychiatry in the making: Practices at Heidelberg’s Psychiatric University Clinic in the 1960s and 1970s – Gundula Gahlen4 ‘The general atmosphere of this admission unit is reassuring and optimistic’: Modernism, architectural research and evolving psychiatric reforms in post-war England – Christina MalathouniPart II – Experimentation5 Non-hierarchical experimentation: The outpatient treatment of drug-using young people in Finland, 1969–75 – Katariina Parhi6 Last resort or early intervention: Discourse and practice of psychosurgery in Strasbourg (late 1940s–early 1960s) – Florent Serina7 Treating mutism in Hungarian child psychiatry, 1957–60 – Gábor CsikósPart III – Reflections8 Changing attitudes: Psychoanalytic therapy of psychoses in 1950s clinical psychiatry – Marietta Meier9 In the wake of Goffman? Doing social sciences at the site of psychiatry in Austria – Monika Ankele10 Writing patients: Group psychotherapy and reform efforts in 1970s GDR university psychiatry – Henriette VoelkerPart IV – Crossing institutional boundaries11 Neuroleptics outside psychiatry: Sedating deviant youth in the 1960s and 1970s in Belgium’s juvenile institutions – Benoît Majerus and David Niget12 Psychiatric practices beyond psychiatry: The sexological administration of transgender life around 1980 – Ketil Slagstad