In the past, our ideas of psychiatric hospitals and their history
have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding
belts. These powerful objects were often used as a synonym for
psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients were treated, yet very
little is known about the agency of these objects and their
appropriation by staff and patients. By focusing on material
cultures, this book offers a new perspective on the history of
psychiatry: it enables a narrative in which practicing psychiatry
is part of a complex entanglement in which power is constantly
negotiated. Scholars from different academic disciplines show how
this material-based approach opens up new perspectives on the
agency and imagination of men and women inside psychiatry.
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