Deinstitutionalisation and After: Post-War Psychiatry in Global Perspective
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK,
9th -10th May 2013
Provisional Programme
Thursday 9th May 2013
0900 - 0930
Registration; Tea and Coffee
0930 - 1100
The psychiatric hospital in the age of deinstitutionalisation: Transformations in
and continuities
Chair: John Stewart
Allan Beveridge, R.D. Laing and the ‘Rumpus Room’. Social psychiatry in 1950s
Glasgow
Vicky Long, “Heading up a blind alley”? Psychiatric care in Glasgow in the era of
deinstitutionalisation
Jennifer Walke, He’s Not the Messiah? Diagnosing the Therapeutic Community
1100 - 1130
Tea and Coffee
1130 - 1300
Understanding deinstitutionalisation: Theories, policies and outcomes of reform
Chair: Jim Mills
John Burnham, The Sociocultural shift that enabled deinstitutionalisation: Consumer
Culture
Matteo Troilo, Reforms and costs of psychiatric care in Italy (XX century)
Frida Wikström, Cracked and relocated walls. The change of psychiatric space and
the process of discharges in Sweden, 1950-1990
Pyrros Mangos, Biopolitics, economy crisis and mental illness. The case of patients
suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder
1300 - 1400
Lunch
1400 - 1530
Mental health care reform and the psychiatric profession
Chair: Allan Beveridge
Thomas Feeney, “Psychiatry in Dissent”: Psychiatric reform in Ireland since the
1960s
Nicolas Henckes, French deinstitutionalization, or the irony of success. The remaking
of the psychiatric profession and the reform of the psychiatric system in France,
1945-1980
Christof Beyer, “Islands of Reform” – Early transformation of the mental health
service in Lower Saxony, Germany in the 1960s
1530 - 1600
Tea and Coffee
1600 - 1730
Community mental health care
Chair: Despo Kritsotaki
Val Harrington, Integration in a divided world: Salford community mental health
services, 1948-1974
Yolana Pringle, Extending psychiatry in a ‘changing society’: psychiatrists,
deinstitutionalisation, and mental health care reform in Uganda, 1959-1972
Ebba Högström, Going local, coming home. Decentralising and institutionalising
processes in the Swedish mental health care 1974-1995
1800 - 1900
Civic Reception – Glasgow City Chambers (provisional)
1930
Conference Dinner – Café Source
Friday 10th May 2013
0930 - 1030
Therapeutic spaces and practices for children
Chair: Matthew Smith
John Stewart, ‘A bad parent is better than no parent’: Child psychiatry and child
welfare in post-war Britain
Despo Kritsotaki, Child Guidance in Greece, 1956-1978
1030 - 1100
Tea and Coffee
1100 - 1230
Radical movements
Chair: Erin Lux
Alexander Dunst, “All the Fits That’s News to Print”: Community newsletters and
the Radical Therapy Movement in the United States
Elena Trivelli, Can a rhizome become a tree? The limits and crystallisation of Italian
deinstitutionalization movements
Cheryl McGeachan, Exploring the Experimental Therapeutic Spaces of R.D. Laing
and Aaron Esterson
1230 - 1315
Lunch
1315 - 1445
Deinstitutionalisation and its discontents in California
Chair: Iain Smith
Marcia Meldrum, The family in recovery: Family members as Policy Warriors under
deinstitutionalization
Howard Padwa, A mental health system “In Recovery”: The design and
implementation of recovery-oriented services in Los Angeles
Jack Friedman, Client perspectives on recovery, risk, and the risks of recovery
1445 - 1515
Tea and Coffee
1515 - 1645
Developments and unexpected turns in the history of deinstitutionalisation
Chair: Vicky Long
Roslyn Burge, Callan Park in transition
Diane Purvey, After the asylum: Making public the Canadian story
Deborah Thien, Translating history/ shaping practice: A collaborative curriculum
development model
Victor Willis, From “those people” to us: A Toronto drop-in in the post-asylum era
1645 - 1800
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, 35 mins, MPA Documentary Collective (Ian
Anderson, Magdelanye Azrael, Dave Beamish, Lanny Beckman, Megan Davies, Avi
Dolgin, Arthur Giovinazzo, Patty Gazzola, John Hatfull, Jackie Hooper, Marina
Morrow, Irit Shimrat, Alex Verkade). Executive Producer: Megan Davies. CoProducer: Marina Morrow, 2013.
All sessions will take place at the University of Strathclyde, Lord Hope Building, Room 226 a/b.