Mental Health in History: Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry

Описание: How did the World Wars shape the practice of psychiatry and the larger mental health field? And how has psychiatric discourse in turn changed how we think about the self? What constitutes mental illness? Who gets to define it and how it should be treated?

In this episode of “Meeting Street,” performance studies scholar Leon Hilton and historian Jennifer Lambe join host Amanda Anderson for a conversation exploring the development of contemporary psychiatry, the role of reformist movements within the field, how gay rights activism and disability justice have challenged our understanding of mental illness and the domain of psychiatry, and the ways in which historical and cultural contexts can inform ongoing scientific study of the mind.

00:00 Episode introduction
02:48 The global history of psychiatry
05:12 Psychiatry in Cuba
08:01 The impact of World War II
12:02 The rise of anti-psychiatry
16:40 The work of Frantz Fanon
20:22 Deinstitutionalization
22:17 The impact of social movements
28:23 Neurodiversity
30:35 Collaborating across disciplines
35:32 Neuroscience and the humanities

Produced by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities. Music and production: Jacob Sokolov-Gonzalez. Transcript at https://humanities.brown.edu/media/me...