L'histoire de la psychiatrie au XXe siècle est marquée par un vide historiographique remarquable comparée aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. L'implication de la psychiatrie dans la politique nationale-socialiste en Allemagne et dans les territoires occupée en est une exception : la focalisation sur cette problématique semble avoir conduit à un certain délaissement du reste du siècle et à une vision cloisonnée des ces « années noires ». En effet à part cette période, le récit historiographique sur la psychiatrie au XXe siècle n'est guère structuré, ou alors il manque de visibilité, divisé entre différentes épistémologies nationales. Partant du constat d'un déficit de la recherche sur la psychiatrie de l'après 1945, régulièrement soulevé dans la littérature récente , ce workshop vise à effectuer un premier tour d'horizon. Il s'entend dès lors articuler autour de deux questions : la chronologie et le cadre paradigmatique.

Workshop : Writing the history of psychiatry after 1945

ULB – 30 and 31 May 2008

Organisers: Volker Hess (Berlin/Charité) and Benoît Majerus (ULB)

The history of psychiatry in the twentieth century is characterised by an historiographic void compared with the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This post-1945 historiographic void has been cited frequently in recent literature and comprises the starting point for this workshop. It aims to present an overview of the current state of research and move beyond the narrow perspectives that characterises the history of psychiatry in terms of whiggish or cyclic (biological against social psychiatry) progression . This first workshop will focus on two questions: the chronologies and paradigms of current research.

30 May

Chairmanship: Kenneth Bertrams

14.00 - 14.45: Greg Eghigian
Deinstitutionalizing the History of Contemporary Psychiatry
Discussant: Volker Hess

14.45 - 15.30: John Burnham
Understanding globalization in psychiatryin the late twentieth century: profiles of international communication
Discussant: Benoît Majerus

15.30 - 16.00: pause

16.00 - 16.45: Catherine Fussinger
Between reformers and antipsychiatry, what kind of historical analyse for the “therapeutic community”?
Discussant: Greg Eghigian

16.45 - 17.30: Nicolas Henckes
The reform of psychiatric hospitals as a way of reading the history of psychiatry in the 20th century
Discussant: John Burnham

31 May

Chairmanship: Jean-Michel Chaumont
9.00 - 9.45: Volker Hess
The case GDR. Do we need a comparative approach to the historiography of psychochemicals?
Discussant: Kathrin Franke

9.45 - 10.30: Séverine Massat-Bourrat
Is the first neuroleptic at the origin of a liberation of the 'madman' or of a social dismissal?
Discussant: Viola Balz

10.30 – 11.00: pause

11.00 - 11.45: Mical Raz
Between the Ego and the Ice-pick: Re-examining the Boundaries between Psychoanalysis and Psychosurgery (USA, 1935-1965)
Discussant: Marietta Meier

11.45 - 12.30: Emilie Courtin
The architecture of change : rethinking the deinstitutionalisation process in France and England
Discussant: Jean-Christophe Coffin

12.30 – 14.00: lunch

Chairmanship: Pieter Lagrou
14.00 - 14.45: Cornelia Brink
On the threshold of psychiatry. A social history of admission, discharge anf continuing stay in German Asylums, 1860-198
Discussant: Eric Engstrom

14.45 - 15.30: Isabelle von Bueltzingsloewen
At the crossroads : psychiatry and psychiatric care in France (1945-1960)
Discussant: Claude-Olivier Doron

15.30 - 16.00: pause
16.00 - 17.00: general discussion
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