Department of History, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2012 Nov;25(6):486-91. doi: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e3283590474.
The purpose of this review is to highlight recent English-language literature on the history of psychiatric institutions. It considers work published since 2010, as well as a few important older articles that have not yet been reviewed in these pages.
Developments in the last half of the 20th century suggest that psychiatric historiography might finally be able to put the mental asylum behind it. Deinstitutionalization and the diffusion of professional jurisdictions seem to have consigned institutional histories to the methodological dustbin. But these transformations have also opened new perspectives on the institutional history of psychiatry and its methodologies. This review reflects on some of the enduring historiographic potential and importance of evidence drawn from institutional settings.
As carceral narratives have begun to lose their paradigmatic status within psychiatric historiography, a much more nuanced picture of asylum culture is becoming visible. The history of psychiatric institutions remains an integral and productive part of psychiatric historiography.
本文旨在重点介绍近年来关于精神病院历史的英文文献。其中考虑了自 2010 年以来发表的作品，以及一些尚未在这些页面中进行综述的重要旧文章。
20 世纪后半叶的发展表明，精神病学史或许终于能够将精神病院抛在身后。去机构化和专业管辖权的扩散似乎使机构历史成为了方法论的垃圾箱。但这些转变也为精神病学史及其方法开辟了新的视角。本文综述了从机构环境中得出的证据在持久的史学潜力和重要性方面的一些思考。
随着禁闭叙事在精神病学史中开始失去其范例地位，庇护文化的画面变得更加复杂。精神病院的历史仍然是精神病学史不可或缺的一部分。
