This article is a personal reflection on the challenges and rewards of doing research on the social history of mental illness and health. The author uses her experiences with the archives of a Parisian psychiatric hospital to discuss some ways of dealing with an overwhelming mass of archival material and the inevitable frustrations and silences that result from trying to do history from the patient’s point of view. The importance of such archival research on mental illness is discussed within the context of a long history of French efforts to provide health care for “citizen-patients.” The article argues that such archives not only provide a wealth of material on the history of illness but that they offer important perspectives on other pol...
This article argues that the Mass Observation Project (MOP) at the University of Sussex offers a uni...
Extensive institutionalisation of people with mental disorders has a brief history lasting just 150 ...
The public lunatic asylum at Bordeaux ; psychiatric hygiemsm and architectural rationalism. In 1885...
Les archives des institutions psychiatriques sont le plus souvent mobilisées pour enquêter sur l’his...
Cet article présente une réflexion exploratoire sur la question de l’expérience des patients placés ...
Historians have long been vexed by the challenges of using patient records as primary sources. Lurki...
International audienceThe author will study a chapter rather unknown of the French psychiatry histor...
International audienceThis article uses archival as well as published materials to trace the develop...
International audienceOn June 10, 1987, an article appeared in the daily newspaper Le Monde under th...
Following the 1961 famous works by Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman (A History of Insanity in the ...
Cet article vise à construire, par l’analyse d’un domaine archivistique inédit ou négligé, une nouve...
The article is a reflection on the areas of empowerment which could be depicted in the social work w...
International audienceCet article révèle en quoi les archives des hôpitaux psychiatriques dévoilent ...
Cet article présente une réflexion exploratoire sur la question de l’expérience des patients placés ...
Cette journée, organisée le 16 mai 2014, vise à souligner l’importance d’un questionnement commun ...
This article argues that the Mass Observation Project (MOP) at the University of Sussex offers a uni...
Extensive institutionalisation of people with mental disorders has a brief history lasting just 150 ...
The public lunatic asylum at Bordeaux ; psychiatric hygiemsm and architectural rationalism. In 1885...
Les archives des institutions psychiatriques sont le plus souvent mobilisées pour enquêter sur l’his...
Cet article présente une réflexion exploratoire sur la question de l’expérience des patients placés ...
Historians have long been vexed by the challenges of using patient records as primary sources. Lurki...
International audienceThe author will study a chapter rather unknown of the French psychiatry histor...
International audienceThis article uses archival as well as published materials to trace the develop...
International audienceOn June 10, 1987, an article appeared in the daily newspaper Le Monde under th...
Following the 1961 famous works by Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman (A History of Insanity in the ...
Cet article vise à construire, par l’analyse d’un domaine archivistique inédit ou négligé, une nouve...
The article is a reflection on the areas of empowerment which could be depicted in the social work w...
International audienceCet article révèle en quoi les archives des hôpitaux psychiatriques dévoilent ...
Cet article présente une réflexion exploratoire sur la question de l’expérience des patients placés ...
Cette journée, organisée le 16 mai 2014, vise à souligner l’importance d’un questionnement commun ...
This article argues that the Mass Observation Project (MOP) at the University of Sussex offers a uni...
Extensive institutionalisation of people with mental disorders has a brief history lasting just 150 ...
The public lunatic asylum at Bordeaux ; psychiatric hygiemsm and architectural rationalism. In 1885...