Doing psychiatry in postwar Europe

Doing psychiatry in postwar EuropeLooking closely at practices that contributed to reshape the psychiatric field in the second half of the 20th century, Doing psychiatry offers new insights into a mental health assistance in transformation after World War II. Through richly documented case studies across Europe, this book sheds light on marginal experiences and everyday practices.

both historical and contemporary

Morten Søndergaard

Civil defence was the most significant voluntary organisation of the Second World War

Was there international law in the Middle Ages

and each essay investigates the mistakes of best-intentions

and a working mother at a time when such a role was unusual for women of her class

Examines the tenets of liberalism

diversity and fragility of a recognisably modern self

Focuses on the pivotal years of 1638–44 where debates around non-conformity within the Church of England morphed into a revolution between Parliament and its king

and details how those effects filter into Shakespeare's dramatic language

Hers was a highly original rise to fame for a European film actress

It explores how the new technology of the camera was used in the British and French empires as a means of controlling subject populations