Thifault Marie-Claude
Faculté des sciences de la santé, Université d'Ottawa.
Can Bull Med Hist. 2019;36(1):184-193. doi: 10.3138/cbmh.263-062018. Epub 2019 Mar 22.
This paper proposes a historiographical discussion based on the article « Les contrecoups de la déshospitalisation psychiatrique. L'exemple du parcours transinstitutionel de Françoise ». Françoise's transinstitutional journey presented in the collective publication , gives me the opportunity to reveal the subtext of this article, and to describe the method and the historical reasoning that gave life to the psychiatric journey of an anonymous person named Françoise. This process is organized around three main points: my positioning as a researcher, the issues related to my narrative approach, and a statement on my historical reasoning in an interdisciplinary perspective. Influenced and inspired by the work of Alain Corbin, George Duby, Roy Porter, Natalie Zemon Davis and Arlette Farge, my approach focusses on the feelings and emotions hidden in historical sources. I remain connected to a subjective intuition, and stay away from positivist reflexes. Based on my research experience with psychiatric records, my conclusion explores the renewal of historical writing , in which I suggest that it is possible to write the history of ordinary people while telling stories with sensitivity.
本文基于《精神病院外迁的反作用。以弗朗索瓦丝的跨机构历程为例》一文展开史学讨论。集体出版物中呈现的弗朗索瓦丝的跨机构历程，让我有机会揭示该文章的潜台词，并描述赋予一位名为弗朗索瓦丝的无名氏精神科历程以生命力的方法和历史推理。这一过程围绕三个要点展开：我作为研究者的定位、与我的叙事方法相关的问题，以及关于我在跨学科视角下的历史推理的陈述。受阿兰·科尔班、乔治·杜比、罗伊·波特、娜塔莉·泽蒙·戴维斯和阿莱特·法热作品的影响与启发，我的方法聚焦于历史资料中隐藏的情感。我始终与主观直觉相连，远离实证主义的反应。基于我对精神病学记录的研究经验，我的结论探讨了历史写作的更新，我认为在以敏感的方式讲述故事的同时书写普通人的历史是可能的。
