Heike Karge (Regensburg): “What can the cultural history of psychiatry (not) tell us about the traumas of soldiers?”
Abstract: This lecture discusses the chances and limits of coming to terms with trauma based on a close reading of a psychiatric patient file from the Yugoslav post-war period (end of the 1950s). The focus is on two questions in particular: How do we in cultural studies deal with the problem of researching trauma in a society that does not itself name it linguistically? And what further impulses can we gain from patient files for current research in cultural history?
Vinko Korataj Drača (Zagreb): “Fear and traume in turn of century psychiatry”
Abstract: Whether it was considered cause of mental illness, its symptom, or justification for the confinement of mentally ill, fear was present in psychiatry since its 19th century beginnings. Trauma was, on the other hand a novel concept first articulated in second half of the 19th century and considered relatively irrelevant in the psychiatric practice until the end of World War I and controversial ascent of the psychoanalytic theories. In this lecture author will examine attitudes and approaches of late 19th century Croatian psychiatrists towards fear and trauma. Research will be based on scientific papers published in the medical journals between 1875 and 1918 and patient files of the Royal and Land Asylum for the Insane in Stenjevac, first psychiatric institution in Croatia.
https://uni-regensburg.zoom.us/j/61273172388?pwd=ZjduMUVxc0ZaUkZ6OFl6R0dMRVhwUT09
(Meeting-ID: 612 7317 2388, Passcode: 495317)
