Titlebook: Hungarian Psychiatry, Society and Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century; Emese Lafferton Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The

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Introduction,he existing focus limited to Vienna and to Freud’s “discoveries,” which not only conceals the roots of psychoanalysis by obscuring the mental asylum and a variety of other psychiatric/psychological projects, but also dismisses Budapest and other Central European cities’ own modernist achievements as

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Histories of Psychiatry and the Hungarian Model,ry and the nineteenth-century phase of psychiatry in different European countries based on the rich scholarship produced in the last decades, an outline of Hungarian psychiatric history is presented with reference to the main institutions, psychiatrists and practices that are discussed in depth in t

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The Bourgeois Family World of the Private Asylum: The Schwartzer Enterprise from 1850,the first in the country opened in 1850. Schwartzer’s idiosyncratic and eclectic theory of mental illness presented in his . (General Pathology and Treatment of Disorders of the Soul, with Forensic Psychology) (1858) is discussed in the contexts of relevant influential interpretations of insanity an

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The University Clinic and the Birth of Biological Psychiatry. Academic Research, Teaching and Theraf the . and its related clinic at the Medical Faculty in 1882. The clinic functioned as an “obligatory passage point” for medical students, academic researchers, mental and nervous patients as well as criminals suspected of mental derangement. Lafferton discusses distinct research practices (brain d

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Fragmenting Institutional Landscape. Alternatives of Specialised Institutions, Colonies and Family d be separated based on disease and severity of affliction, coupled with gloomy views entailed by recent studies underlying the organic nature and irreversible pathological processes in mental disorders, as well as news on the disastrous conditions in overcrowded asylums and hospital wards, all urge

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Asylum Statistics and the Psycho-Social Reality of the Hungarian Kingdom,nd the author’s original survey of thousands of asylum patient files, Lafferton reconstructs the patient populations of three major mental asylums liable to use public services of mental care between 1850 and 1915. The analysis of the social parameters of the inmate population (including those of ge

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Invading the Public and the Private: The Hygiene of Everyday Life, Shell-Shock and the Politics of ding on the strong connections between mental pathology and social problems demonstrated in the previous chapter, such as alcoholism, pauperism, prostitution, syphilis, effects of industrialisation and modernisation, gender relations, political unrest. Psychiatrists thus extended their expertise to

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Conclusion, heterogeneous institutional landscape and from healing the mind of the insane to healing the ills of society. She recapitulates how psychiatry went through growth and fragmentation that brought about multiple institutional forms, alternative therapeutic choices and psychiatric practices, and manifo

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