Psychiatric fringes. An historical and sociological investigation of early psychosis and related phenomena in post-war French and German societies
Final Report Abstract
The project Psyfring is a pure research project in the framework of the joint French‐German research program in the Human and Social Sciences funded by the ANR and the DFG. It has thrown new lights on the contemporary transformations of psychiatry. We make a significant contribution to the social science understanding of clinical research practices in psychiatry which have been largely neglected by the social study of medicine so far. We also propose a series of new ideas for the social science analysis of classification by focusing on phenomena located at the boundary of categories. In line with these analyses we also give a contribution to discussions about role identification in the sociology of illness. Finally we make an important contribution to the history of knowledge about risks in medicine.
Publications
- "Early Psychosis" as a mirror of biologist controversies in post-war German, Anglo-Saxon, and Soviet Psychiatry. Frontiers in psychology 4 (2013), 481
Rzesnitzek, Lara
(See online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00481) - Die Funktion eines allgemeinen Krankheitsbegriffs aus historischer Perspektive. Nervenarzt 86 (2015), 9-15
Hess, Volker und Rainer Herrn
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00115-014-4107-6) - „Psychologische Mitarbeit“ in der Psychiatrie: Die Etablierung der "Klinischen Psychologie" am Beispiel von Lilo Süllwolds diagnostischen Bemühungen um die beginnende Schizophrenie. Medizinhistorisches Journal 50.4 (2015), 357-392
Rzesnitzek, Lara
- Soul Catchers: The Material Culture of the Mind Sciences. Medical History 60 (2016), 301-307
Guenther, Katja und Volker Hess
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2016.24) - Exploring the fringes of psychopathology: Boundary entities, category work and other borderline phenomena in the history of 20th century psychopathology. History of the Human Sciences 31.2 (2018), 3-21
Henckes, Nicolas, Volker Hess und Marie Reinholdt
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695118758840 Article information Open epub for Exploring the fringes of psychopathology Article Information PDF download for Exploring the fringes of psychopathology Open epub for Exploring the fringes of psychopathology) - Performing doubt and negotiating uncertainty: diagnosing schizophrenia at its onset in post-war German psychiatry. History of the Human Sciences 31.2 (2018), 65-87
Henckes, Nicolas und Lara Rzesnitzek
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695118755619)
