This thesis examines the ways in which the British mandate conceptualised, encountered, and sought to manage mental illness in Palestine between 1920 and 1948. The subject of mental illness has hitherto received partial consideration by historians interested in the Yishuv, who treat this period as formative for the Israeli mental health service. This thesis shifts the focus from European Jewish psychiatrists to the British mandate's engagements with mental illness, thus contributing to the well-developed literature on colonial psychiatry. Where this thesis departs from many of these institutionally-focussed histories of colonial psychiatry is in its source base; lacking hospital case files or articles in psychiatric journals, this thesis draws on an eclectic range of material from census reports and folklore research to petitions and prison records. In bringing together these strands of the story of psychiatry and mental illness, this thesis seeks to move beyond the continued emphasis in the historiography of Palestine on politics, nationalism, and state-building, and to develop our understanding of state and society by examining how they interacted in relation to the question of mental illness. This thesis thus widens the cast of historical actors from psychiatric experts alone to take in policemen, census officials, and families. In addition, this thesis seeks to situate Palestine within wider mandatory, British imperial, and global contexts, not to elide specificities, but to resist a persistent historiographical tendency to treat Palestine as exceptional. The first part traces the development of British mandatory conceptualisations of mental illness through the census of 1931 and then through a focus on specific causes of mental illness thought to be at work in Palestine. The second part examines two contexts in which the mandate was brought into contact with the mentally ill: the law and petitions. The final part of the thesis explores two distinct therapeutic regimes introduced in this period: patient work and somatic treatments.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T14:41:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao de Carla Carrion - Parte 1.pdf: 863464 bytes, checksum: 11c862aa396fd8b22bede81510dd39d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-12 / There is no unique history of madness nor unique way to tell each history. We write here one of the possible histories of Adauto Botelho Psychiatric Hospital (since the 10th of May of 2011 this hospital is called Hospital Estadual de Atenção Clínica HEAC), located in Espírito Santo, Brazil. What matters here is not the accuracy of a timeline, but the flow of speeches and practices. Therefore, we have analysed 102 medical charts of Adauto Botelho Hospital and interviewed 4 hospital employees. We have researched the period from 1954 until 1990. During and after the research, we have discussed the following points: 1. The ways of referring patients to the hospital and how the police was part of this process. 2. The Hospital s Therapeutics, how moralizing they could be and the way they were mirrored on the patients bodies. 3. The struggles and resistances of people who lived and worked in the Hospital. Among the discussion of all these issues, we bring some short histories about the patients, employees and their lives in the hospital. There is no doubt that there are many other questions to discuss, but we write here about what seems to be more intense in the researched material / Não existe uma única história da loucura e da psiquiatria, nem uma única forma de contar cada história. Sabendo disso, o presente trabalho trata de uma história do Hospital Adauto Botelho (desde 10 de maio de 2010, Hospital Estadual de Atenção Clínica Heac), localizado em Cariacica município da Região Metropolitana da Grande Vitória no Espírito Santo. Trazemos essa história não a partir de uma linha do tempo que narre acontecimentos de cada época. Buscamos a fluidez dos discursos e das práticas em lugar da precisão das datas. E, sobre esses discursos e essas práticas, o próprio Hospital tem muito a apresentar, por meio dos prontuários médicos datados desde a inauguração em 1954 e de depoimentos de pessoas que lá tenham trabalhado. Foram analisados 102 prontuários e entrevistadas 4 pessoas. A pesquisa dos prontuários e a realização das entrevistas possibilitaram a discussão as seguintes questões: 1. As formas de encaminhamento dos pacientes para o hospital e o modo como a polícia se inseria nesse processo; 2. As terapêuticas do hospital, seu aspecto moralizante e o modo como elas incidiam sobre os corpos; 3. As lutas e resistências que se presentificavam no cotidiano do hospital. Todas essas questões são o tempo inteiro atravessadas por breves histórias de vidas dos pacientes ali internados e dos funcionários que narraram as vivências no hospital. Não há dúvida de que há inúmeras outras questões a serem debatidas, mas aqui falamos do que nos pareceu mais intenso no material pesquisado