Archive for September, 2011

Psyences project (NYC) – 2011-2012 program

v hugoThe Humanities Institute and the Institute for the History of Production of Knowledge at NYU have put together this year’s program for the “Psyences project”:

21 October 2011: Andreas Mayer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) – “Dream Archives”

3 February 2012: Louis Sass & Elizabeth Pienkos (Rutgers University) – “The Uncanny Valley. Language and Mood in Schizophrenia, Melancholia and Mania”

30 March 2012: Janis Jenkins (UC San Diego) – “Land of Enchantment? Rage Among Youth in the American Southwest”

4 May 2012: Don Kulick (University of Chicago) – Excessibility Guidelines: How to Facilitate and how to Impede the Sex Lives of People with Severe Disabilities in Two Very Contrasting Welfare States”

All events take place on Fridays, 3-5 pm in the Torch Club (18, Waverly Place between Greene and Mercer, NYC)

Please RSVP to IHPK@nyu.edu

For more information, email Emily Martin – em81@nyu.edu

2011
09/30
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CFP: Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture for SSPC 2012

SSPC is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 2012 annual meeting in New York, May 9-11, 2012. Abstracts are due no later than November 1, 2011, and all abstracts will be peer reviewed. Preference will be given to papers that relate to the theme of the meeting, ”Globalization and the Dilemmas of Multiculturalism”. Preference will be given to papers that reflect the following topics for which we are planning symposia:
Globalization and the dilemmas of multiculturalism

Treatment of torture victims
LGBT issues across cultures
Disasters and cultural psychiatry
Aging in a multicultural society
Treatment of immigrant families across cultures

We also will have sessions for free papers, and a dedicated trainee session.

Abstracts must not exceed 200 words in length. All submissions must include at least two learning objectives, and be accompanied by the cover page.

For more information, click here.

2011
09/29
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Programme des “jeudis de la Bium”

 

Jeudi 6 octobre 2011

Michel Caire. Actualités. Présentation du programme. Ouvrages récents et actualité.

L’Homme qui se prenait pour Napoléon. Pour une histoire politique de la folie, de Laure Murat. Gallimard, septembre 2011; 382 p., ill.

Gérard Encausse dit PAPUS 1865-1916, médecin, théosophe, collaborateur de Jules Luys

La Loi du 5 juillet 2011

Jeudi 3 novembre 2011

Michel Caire. Des Lettres de cachet à la Loi du 5 juillet 2011 : trois siècles et demi d’internement psychiatrique.

Jeudi 1er décembre 2011

Michel Caire. Histoire et philologie. Usage et étymologie du vocabulaire psychiatrique ancien (le vocabulaire de la folie dans Le Jeu d’Adam ou Jeu de La Feuillée (Adam de la Halle, 1276), dans les écrits concernant la folie du roi Charles VI (1392-1422) et dans La Farce de Maistre Pathelin, composée entre 1456 et 1469, 1ère éd. 1486).

Jeudi 5 janvier 2012

Michel Caire. De quelques thérapeutiques oubliées (XIXème-XXème siècle). Le siècle dernier n’est pas en reste sur le précédent pour ce qui est de l’inventivité en matière de thérapeutique de la folie. Aux méthodes mécaniques violentes et extraordinaires (machines rotatoires, bains de surprise, etc.) ont succédé divers procédés essentiellement électriques, chimiques et biologiques dont l’incongruité le dispute à l’insolite (administration d’une suspension de cerveau de porc électrochoqué, électrochocthérapie intracrânienne par application directe sur le cortex, sympathicothérapie ou touche nasale, etc.).

Jeudi 2 février 2012

Michel Caire. Être médecin des asiles au XIXème siècle. Grandeur et servitude.

Jeudi 1er mars 2012

Agnès Berthomeu, Michel Caire. De l’Infirmerie Spéciale du Dépôt à l’Infirmerie Psychiatrique près la Préfecture de Police. Psychiatrie et ordre public à Paris, des années 1840 à nos jours.

Jeudi 5 avril 2012

Michel Caire. « A MORT LES INCURABLES ! A MORT ! » La question de l’euthanasie des malades mentaux dans l’entre-deux-guerres en Allemagne et en France.

Jeudi 3 mai 2012

Michel Caire. Vestiges parisiens de lieux de soins psychiatriques.

Jeudi 7 juin 2012

Séance délocalisée aux Archives de Paris (Boulevard Serrurier XIXème arrondissement)

Audrey Ceselli, Michel Caire. Les fonds de Maison-Blanche et de Sainte-Anne conservés aux Archives de Paris.

For more information, click here.

 

 

2011
09/28
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CFP: ASA/SDS panel on suicide and disability (Puerto Rico/Denver)

Kathleen Brian, PhD student at the George Washington University, sent us the following Call for paper:

I’m hoping to form a panel on suicide and disability, broadly conceived, for the 2012 annual meeting of either the American Studies Association (San Juan, November 15-18) or  the Society for Disability Studies (Denver, June 20-23).

While assisted suicide is a long-established problem for those working in the field of disability studies, these scholars have been more reticent about the topics of suicide attempted/ accomplished by the individual, and the intersection of rhetorics of suicide and disability. This panel (as currently conceptualized) seeks to create a conversation around the latter two, though I also am happy to consider proposals that shed new light on the problem of assisted suicide.

Interested individuals may contact me off-list at kmbrian@gwmail.gwu.edu.

2011
09/27
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New article: “Eugen Bleuler’s Place in the History of Psychiatry”

berriosGerman Berrios (Emeritus Professor and Chair of the Epistemology of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge) has written an article in the Schizophrenia Bulletin entitled “Eugen Bleuler’s Place in the History of Psychiatry“.

The article starts thus:

Like the guildsmen of old, 19th century Alienists (now psychiatrists) also realized that a pantheon of proceres would be useful to their trade and social standing: by the 1850s, national pantheons had already been constituted and by the early 20th century, a well-populated international Valhalla was in existence. Ever since it has been required that the anniversaries of the pantheonized be dutifully posted (In relation to Bleuler’s anniversaries, see, for example, the note by Fusar-Poli and Politi 1 posted in the American Journal of Psychiatry.).This notwithstanding, the rules for pantheonization remain unclear and their enactors shadowy. To do justice to Eugen Bleuler’s place in the pantheon of psychiatry, this obscurity needs some illumination.

It is a common historical observation that current psychiatrists tend to select for special attention only some of the many accounts of madness developed in earlier times. Although the reasons for such selection have never been fully explored, it is customary to accept the view that no prescription is involved and that the accounts in question select themselves on account of their scientificity and truth-making power. It follows that those responsible for such accounts are considered as anticipators or pioneers of a current truth. In other words, their entitlement to a place in the psychiatric pantheon is determined not by their contemporary values but by those reigning in the present.

This way of getting into the psychiatric pantheon is perilously dependent upon the quality and stability of the said selection criteria. If, as proclaimed, the criterion in question is the “truth” of science, then the pantheonized have little to worry about; but if it is socioeconomic or political convenience, then pantheon membership becomes a precarious affair and psychiatry should be required to set in place rules for depantheonization.

Against this backdrop, what is Eugen Bleuler’s entitlement?

To access the entire article, click here.

2011
09/22
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