The Max Planck Institute for Human Development is hosting an international conference at the end of September on “Emotions and Medicine in the 20th century” with the following program:

Thursday, September 22nd

13.45 – 14.15 Welcome
Ute Frevert
Opening remarks
Bettina Hitzer / Anja Laukötter

Panel 1: Theorizing emotions within the body
Chair: Benno Gammerl

14.15 – 16.15 Eric Engstrom (Berlin)
Emil Kraepelin on affective disorders
Claudia Wassmann (Berlin)
“If you are a failure, change your personality” –
JB Watson and the Behaviorist view of the emotions
Discussion

16.15 – 16.30 Coffee break

16.30 – 18.00 Otniel E. Dror (Jerusalem/California)
What is a “physiological” emotion?
Christopher Lane (Chicago)
How shyness became an illness,
and other cautionary tales about the DSM
Discussion

Friday, September 23rd

Panel 2: Working with emotions. Medical research and practice
Chair: Rob Boddice

9.00 – 10.30 Bettina Hitzer (Berlin)
Emotions that matter. Preventing and detecting cancer
Wolfgang Gaissmaier (Berlin)
Emotions as an obstacle to evidence-based practice
Discussion

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 12.30 Susanne Michl (Greifswald)
(De-)Emotionalizing the doctor-patient
relationship in Germany in the 20th century
Susanne Kreutzer (Osnabrück)
Comfort and security as healing factors. Christian and scientific
concepts
in the West German nursing practice
Discussion

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch break
Panel 3: Campaigning with emotions
Chair: Jan Plamper

14.00 – 16.00 Anja Laukötter (Berlin)
Moral threats and emotional addressing.
From venereal diseases to AIDS in educational films
Patrice Pinell (Paris)
Converting emotions into militantism: the rise and development
of the AIDS mobilizations in France
Antje Kampf (Mainz)
Probing the history of emotions: ‘narratives of unease’ in
representations
of androgen-deprivation therapy, prostate cancer and the aging male
body
Discussion

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break

17.15 – 18.30 Thomas Schnalke (Berlin)
Guided tour in the Museum of Medical History,
Berlin: Museums Objects and Emotions

Saturday, September 24th
Panel 4: Harming emotions / Curing emotions
Chair: Uffa Jensen

9.00 – 10.30 Wilfried Witte (Berlin)
Concepts of pain and the development
of pain management in the 20th century
Christine Holmberg (Berlin)
Emotions in doctor-patient relationships. Asymptomatic diseases
Discussion

10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break

10.45 – 12.15 Rhodri Hayward (London)
Psychology and the pursuit of serenity in Post-War Britain
Matthias Leanza (Freiburg)
Emotional immunisation: Emotion as threat and preventive resource
in the theory of salutogenesis
Discussion

12.15 – 12.45 Lunch break

12.45 – 13.45 Concluding discussion
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For info and registration, email becher@mpib-belin.mpg.de
For general information, see http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=17179

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