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Social Class and Mental Illness in Northern Europe book cover

1st Edition

Social Class and Mental Illness in Northern Europe

Edited By Petteri Pietikäinen, Jesper Kragh Copyright 2020
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction

Petteri Pietikainen and Jesper Vaczy Kragh

Part I: Social Class and Mental Health Care

  1. Pity the Poor Patient: The Indigent Mentally Ill in Late 19th and Early 20th-Century Finland

    2. Petteri Pietikainen

  2. Mental Illness and Social Class in Northern Norway, 1900-1940

    3. Åshild Fause

  3. Citizens, Patients or Paupers? Class and Mental Health in Post-War Britain

    4. Vicky Long

  4. After Patient Murder. Asylum Psychiatry in the Four German Occupation Zones after World War II

    5. Maike Rotzoll

  5. Children on the Move. Psychiatric Encounters with Child Evacuees Returning to Post-War Finland

    6. Tuomas Laine-Frigren

    Part II: Psychiatry, Crime and Deviance

  6. Social Class and Opiate Addiction in European Psychiatry, 1870-1955

    7. Jesper Vaczy Kragh

  7. Psychopaths, Querulants and Class: On Controversial Diagnoses, Money, Norms, and Networks in Sweden in the 1930s and 1940s

    8. Annika Berg

  8. Unsound of Mind: Crime, Madness and Forensic Psychiatry in Denmark and Finland in the First Decades of the 20th century

    9. Jesper Vaczy Kragh and Petteri Pietikainen

  9. The Ideal of the Respectable Woman: Social Class and Femininity in Forensic Assessments of Female Patients at Østmarka Asylum, 1938–1969

    10. Maria Antonie Sæther

  10. Liberating the Deviants: How to Change the Politics of Social Control – a Case Study from Finland, 1967-1971

     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

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