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Social Class and Mental Illness in Northern Europe
This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century. Contributors explore the socioeconomic status of mental patients, the possible influence of social class on the diagnoses and treatment they received in psychiatric institutions, and how social class affected the ways in which the problems of minorities, children and various ‘deviants’ and ‘misfits’ were evaluated and managed by mental health professionals. The basic message of the book is that, even in developing welfare states founded on social equality, social class has been a significant factor that has affected mental health in many different ways – and still does.
Introduction
Petteri Pietikainen and Jesper Vaczy Kragh
Part I: Social Class and Mental Health Care
- Pity the Poor Patient: The Indigent Mentally Ill in Late 19th and Early 20th-Century Finland
- Mental Illness and Social Class in Northern Norway, 1900-1940
- Citizens, Patients or Paupers? Class and Mental Health in Post-War Britain
- After Patient Murder. Asylum Psychiatry in the Four German Occupation Zones after World War II
- Children on the Move. Psychiatric Encounters with Child Evacuees Returning to Post-War Finland
- Social Class and Opiate Addiction in European Psychiatry, 1870-1955
- Psychopaths, Querulants and Class: On Controversial Diagnoses, Money, Norms, and Networks in Sweden in the 1930s and 1940s
- Unsound of Mind: Crime, Madness and Forensic Psychiatry in Denmark and Finland in the First Decades of the 20th century
- The Ideal of the Respectable Woman: Social Class and Femininity in Forensic Assessments of Female Patients at Østmarka Asylum, 1938–1969
- Liberating the Deviants: How to Change the Politics of Social Control – a Case Study from Finland, 1967-1971
Petteri Pietikainen
Åshild Fause
Vicky Long
Maike Rotzoll
Tuomas Laine-Frigren
Part II: Psychiatry, Crime and Deviance
Jesper Vaczy Kragh
Annika Berg
Jesper Vaczy Kragh and Petteri Pietikainen
Maria Antonie Sæther
Katariina Parhi and Mikko Myllykangas
Index
Biography
Petteri Pietikäinen is Professor of the History of Science and Ideas at the University of Oulu, Finland
Jesper Vaczy Kragh is principle investigator at Psychiatry Region Zealand and a Fellow at CoRe, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark