HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 19th March 2011
Registration 10.30am
5th Floor, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
11.00-12.15pm
SESSION A, Large Seminar Room
Mouhdy Al-Rashid, University of Oxford
'Mental Symptoms and Mental Illness in Ancient Mesopotamian Medical and Magical Texts'
Iain Perdue, University of Oxford
'The Social Life of Schizophrenia: Zürich to Bali'
Michael Finn, University of Leeds
'Building an Image of a Diseased Mind: Studying Patients in the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, 186676'
SESSION B, Lecture Theatre
Andreas Sommer, University College London
'Psychical Research and the Origins of Modern Psychology, c. 1879-1910'
Julia Gyimesi, University of Pecs, Hungary
'Psychical Research and the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis'
Max Gawlitch, University of Heidelberg
'Mescaline-intoxication as Model-Psychosis in Weimar Republic Psychiatry'
12.15-1.15pm Lunch
1.15-2.05pm
SESSION C, Large Seminar Room
Matthew Savelli, University of Oxford
'The Development of Psychiatry in Communist Yugoslavia'
Jennifer Walke, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
The Evolution of Occupational Therapy for Mental Health'
SESSION D, Lecture Theatre
Yoshiya Makita, University of Tokyo
'Creating Pitiful Deviants: the Institute for Child Research and the Emergence of the State Control
over the Disabled Population in Tokyo, Japan.'
Rabia Belt, University of Michigan
'Disabling Democracy in America: Disability, Citizenship, Suffrage, and the Law: 1830-1920.'
2.05-2.30pm Coffee break
2.30-3.20pm
SESSION E, Large Seminar Room
Yolana Pringle, University of Oxford
'Researching ‘Colonial Psychiatry’: Themes and Issues from Colonial Uganda.'
Sonja Deschrijver, University of Antwerp
'The Disordered Self: Madness, Religion and Society in Early Modern Brabant.'
SESSION F, Lecture Theatre
Jessie Hewitt, UC Davis, University of California
'Coming of Age in the “Milieu of Madness”: Private Asylums and Women’s Authority in Nineteenthcentury Paris'
Mariana Labarca Pinto, European University Institute, Florence
'Defining Mental Incapacity: Young, Middle-Aged and Old Prodigals Interdicted in EighteenthCentury Florence'
3.20-3.45pm Coffee break
3.45-4.35pm
SESSION G, Large Seminar Room
Ulrich Koch, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
'From Shock-Therapeutics to Traumatic Neurosis: Two Notions of Shock in the History of
Psychiatry.'
David Freis, University of Bochum
'“Dictatorship of the Psychopaths” German Psychiatry between War, Defeat, Revolution, and
Republic Berlin, Munich, Bonn, Strasbourg, 1916-1925.'
SESSION G, Lecture Theatre
Hazel Croft, Birkbeck College, University of London
'The Making of the ‘No Neurosis Myth’: Psychiatric Diagnostics and Civilian Mental Health in
Second World War Britain.'
Anouska Bhattacharyya, Harvard University
'Rethinking Madness: Permeating the ‘Native’ Lunatic Asylum in Nineteenth-Century Bengal, 18581912.'
4.35-5.00pm Meeting in Large Seminar Room
5.00pm End of Conference, trip to local pub...