At a time when the rest of Canada, and indeed much of the Western World, was looking for alternatives to large custodial mental hospitals, people in the Western Canadian province of Saskatchewan celebrated the opening of one of the country's largest asylums. The province remained committed to the institution throughout the interwar years, offering few alternatives for people deemed insane or mentally defective. People on the outside often saw the asylum as an economic boon, a marker of civilization, or as an institution that was crucial for protecting the health and safety of the public. Patients and their families, however, struggled against an institution where patients were subjected to a broad range of indignities. By carefully considering Saskatchewan's regional social and political culture, I examine the values that were projected onto the asylum by those on the outside and the boundaries that were established between the patients and the public that enabled the public to see the asylum as necessary despite widespread patient suffering. I argue that the public accepted the Weyburn Mental Hospital first as a monument worthy of celebration and then as a necessary, though perhaps regrettable, tool for segregation. The asylum in the interwar years is best understood as a political rather than a medical institution, where politicians and the asylum administration cultivated an image for the institution that conformed to regional values. The government and the media defined the patient experience for a curious public, portraying the institution and its patients in a way that not only legitimized the asylum but that also assigned it meaning far beyond its stated medical function. The values associated with the asylum changed over time, but were always guided by political concerns and were always facilitated by manipulating the relationship between the asylum, its patients, and the surrounding community.

O Projeto Antimanicomial, com sua intenção de ressocializar o usuário de serviços de saúde mental, enfrenta todo o compartilhamento de sociabilidades que, no pensamento contemporâneo, fundamenta se prevalentemente na cultura científica. Esses símbolos produzidos por sistemas de interpretação do mundo se propagam para o social e acabam por se expressar no cotidiano existencial dos homens. A presente pesquisa intenciona analisar a capacidade da convivência com o usuário de serviços de saúde mental, atuar como transformadora do imaginário social da loucura, defendida por Franco Basaglia precursor da Psiquiatria Democrática Italiana. Para este autor, a reinserção do \"louco\" na sociedade que o excluiu pode se tornar um emulador da tomada de consciência política do social. Para tal, realizou-se um estudo de caso de uma Residência Terapêutica ligada à uma Institutição de Saúde Mental Antimanicomial, em que foram entrevistados a coordenadora do Serviço de Residências Terapêuticas e entes da comunidade que receberam antigos internos de manicômios em sua vizinhança, levantando as narrativas e imagens que constroem juizos e avaliam a loucura. Visa contribuir com o processo de transformação do sistema de saúde mental que, supostamente deveria funcionar como o estopim de uma reflexividade sobre a socialização, subsidiando, através de reflexões, acerca das possibilidades políticopedagógicas das intervenções antimanicomiais. / The Anti-Manicomial Project, with its intention of re-socialize the mental health user, deals with the sociability sharing which, in a contemporary thought, based mainly on the scientific culture. These symbols, created by a world interpretation system spread themselves to the social and turn to be expressed in daily men existence. The current research intends to analyze the acquaintanceship capacity with the mental health user, act as a madness social imaginary changer, defended by Franco Basaglia - precursor of the Italian Democratic Psychiatry. To this author, the re-insertion of the madman in the society that excluded him, can become a social conscious start emulousness. Therefore, a research of a therapeutic residence case, related to an Anti-manicomial Mental Health Institution, which the Therapeutic Residence Service Coordinator and community members that welcomed old mental hospital residents, were interviewed, pointing the narratives and images which build up sense and evaluate madness. It intends to contribute to a mental health system change which supposely, should work as a fuse of a socialization reflexivity, subsidizing, through reflections, the pedagogic- political possibilities of anti-manicomial interventions.

The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyse the institutionalized Swedish Psychiatric practice during the period 1850 and 1970 - the era of the large mental hospitals - in terms of a modem disciplinary project. Point of departure relates to the meeting between the admitted patient and the educational work of the mental hospital and its everyday practice. The main sources of information for this study consists among other things of case sheets and texts closely related to the work of the mental hospitals. The study has two important aspects. The first deals with the normalized procedures in the practice of mental care, and draws the attention to the relation between social and cultural standards and the way the mental hospitals reviews, treats and handles the patient. The second aspect deals with the actual administration and the techniques of the hospital to correct the patient and his/her actions in a desirable direction. An overarching discussion deals with the relation between liberating and Controlling practitioners, and how the Controlling power of the hospital relates to the modem society's conception of a independent man. At the same time as the physical coercion of the mental hospital diminished, controlling methods were required which were not merely based on obedience and Submission, but also on the participation and will of the patient. Informal system of rewards, confession-techniques as well as various forms of a conditionalised and regulated freedom is combined with a more concealed potential of coercion of the institution. The compulsory work is being analysed as the most important educational therapy - both socially and ethically. Work is being described as a liberal Controlling technique. By connecting work to the system of rewards as well as increased physical freedom enables the hospital to exercise control and predictability without resorting to coercion. How the hospital looked upon and handled the sexual body, and how cultural conceptions regarding sexual normality dominated the practical care-taking is being analysed with the starting point in case sheets. The sexual behaviour, especially concerning women, resulted in a meeting of different opinions between restraining and testing practitioners where moral reliability was a condition for physical freedom. The thesis describes a movement over time towards increased physical freedoms for the patients of the mental hospitals. This did not imply that the control or the normalization decreased in intensity. But rather that the forms and the conditions for these processes changed. The freedom that was placed in sight was always connected with the well behaviour of the patient. / digitalisering@umu

The new Government of India did not introduce legislation for `native' lunacy in colonial India as a measure of social control after the uprisings of 1857-8; discussions about Indian insanes had already occurred in 1856, following asylum and pauper reform in Victorian England. With the 1858 Lunacy Acts, native lunatic asylums occupied an unsteady position between judicial and medical branches of this government. British officers were too constrained by their inexperience of asylums and of India to be effective superintendents and impose a coherent psychiatry within. They relied on their subordinate staff who were recruited from the communities that surrounded each asylum. Alongside staff and patients, the asylums were populated by tea sellers, local visitors, janitors, cooks and holy men, all of whom presented alternate and complementary ideas about the treatment and care of Indian insanes. By 1912, these asylums had been transformed into archetypal colonial institutions, strict with psychiatric doctrine and filled with Western-trained Indian doctors who entertained no alternate belief systems in these colonial spaces. How did these fluid and heterogeneous spaces become the archetypes of colonial power? / History of Science

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O Projeto Antimanicomial, com sua intenção de ressocializar o usuário de serviços de saúde mental, enfrenta todo o compartilhamento de sociabilidades que, no pensamento contemporâneo, fundamenta se prevalentemente na cultura científica. Esses símbolos produzidos por sistemas de interpretação do mundo se propagam para o social e acabam por se expressar no cotidiano existencial dos homens. A presente pesquisa intenciona analisar a capacidade da convivência com o usuário de serviços de saúde mental, atuar como transformadora do imaginário social da loucura, defendida por Franco Basaglia precursor da Psiquiatria Democrática Italiana. Para este autor, a reinserção do \"louco\" na sociedade que o excluiu pode se tornar um emulador da tomada de consciência política do social. Para tal, realizou-se um estudo de caso de uma Residência Terapêutica ligada à uma Institutição de Saúde Mental Antimanicomial, em que foram entrevistados a coordenadora do Serviço de Residências Terapêuticas e entes da comunidade que receberam antigos internos de manicômios em sua vizinhança, levantando as narrativas e imagens que constroem juizos e avaliam a loucura. Visa contribuir com o processo de transformação do sistema de saúde mental que, supostamente deveria funcionar como o estopim de uma reflexividade sobre a socialização, subsidiando, através de reflexões, acerca das possibilidades políticopedagógicas das intervenções antimanicomiais. / The Anti-Manicomial Project, with its intention of re-socialize the mental health user, deals with the sociability sharing which, in a contemporary thought, based mainly on the scientific culture. These symbols, created by a world interpretation system spread themselves to the social and turn to be expressed in daily men existence. The current research intends to analyze the acquaintanceship capacity with the mental health user, act as a madness social imaginary changer, defended by Franco Basaglia - precursor of the Italian Democratic Psychiatry. To this author, the re-insertion of the madman in the society that excluded him, can become a social conscious start emulousness. Therefore, a research of a therapeutic residence case, related to an Anti-manicomial Mental Health Institution, which the Therapeutic Residence Service Coordinator and community members that welcomed old mental hospital residents, were interviewed, pointing the narratives and images which build up sense and evaluate madness. It intends to contribute to a mental health system change which supposely, should work as a fuse of a socialization reflexivity, subsidizing, through reflections, the pedagogic- political possibilities of anti-manicomial interventions.

Submitted by Daniely Januário (daniely.januario@gmail.com) on 2018-03-01T13:23:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 mariadasdoressilvafranco.pdf: 909424 bytes, checksum: c9a068fd3ce9e008b1db81b163ae7390 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-03-01T15:39:28Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 mariadasdoressilvafranco.pdf: 909424 bytes, checksum: c9a068fd3ce9e008b1db81b163ae7390 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-01T15:39:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 mariadasdoressilvafranco.pdf: 909424 bytes, checksum: c9a068fd3ce9e008b1db81b163ae7390 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-09-05 / PROQUALI (UFJF) / Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo refletir sobre variadas formas de abordagem do tema da loucura na literatura ficcional e na científica. Para tanto, foram consultados escritores que apresentaram em suas obras registros da demência, tratada segundo as concepções das diferentes épocas e dos contextos sociais e culturais em que se inseriam. Buscaram-se exemplares da literatura em que diversos critérios nortearam os diagnósticos de loucura, bem como o tratamento realizado. Considerando-se o papel da ficção ao apresentar a realidade temática, Machado de Assis, com o conto O Alienista, Guimarães Rosa com os contos “Sorôco, sua mãe e sua filha” e “Darandina” e Erasmo de Rotterdam com a obra: O Elogio da Loucura, que constituíram-se como rica fonte de reflexão e análise. Numa proposta interdisciplinar, foram solicitados para a fundamentação teórico-literária Alfredo Bosi, Antônio Candido, Affonso Romano Sant‟Anna, Bastos e Mikhail Bakhtin. Da literatura científica, buscaram-se as contribuições de Foucault, Amarante, Jung, Freud, Miranda e Canguilhem, Goffman e outros que trataram do tema da loucura, nas mais diversas nuances, dando consistência às percepções decorrentes deste estudo. / This research aimed to reflect on different ways of approaching the theme of madness in fictional and scientific literatures. Therefore, writers had been consulted on their deeds records of dementia, treated according to the concepts of different ages and social and cultural contexts in which they operated. We sought copies of literature in which several criteria guided the diagnosis of madness, as well as treatment. Considering the role of fiction to present the reality theme, Machado de Assis, with the story O Alienista, Guimarães Rosa with tales "Soroco, sua mãe e sua filha" and "Darandina" and Erasmus de Rotterdam with the work: O Elogio da Loucura, which were as rich source of reflection and analysis. In an interdisciplinary approach, were asked to theoretical and literary Alfredo Bosi, Antonio Candido, Affonso Romano Sant'Anna, Bastos and Mikhail Bakhtin. Scientific literature, sought the contributions of Foucault, Amarante, Jung, Freud, and Miranda Canguilhem, Goffman and others who have dealt with the theme of madness in various nuances, giving consistency to the insights derived from this study.

This thesis is concerned with the transformation of prostitutes and other women in the magdalen asylums, the convict refuge, and the certified inebriate reformatory conducted by a roman catholic order of nuns in nineteenth century Britain. Laundry work came to play a central role in the activities expected of the women admitted to these quasi-monastic houses. Its significance is examined in terms of organisational and symbolic correspondences with the structure and ideology of transformative institutions directed to christian conversion. The thesis initially identifies different organisational forms and the ideology revealed by the long-span history of convent refuges. It goes on to consider the problems that tradition posed in the later institutions. The historical account, ordered around a primary sociological concern with transformation, discloses the struggle between the nuns, the secular authorities, and others, to assert differing ideas of religion, morality, and work. The theoretical discussion examines the structure and process of transformation, and the system of classification and control on which it is based. Moving from the notion of Total Institution, the analysis formulates a sociological model of the refuge as a 'Theopticon'. This provides a stable context for a pattern of transformations ranging from the laundry work to the liturgy. The analysis also deals with the role and status of the long-term transformand in pursuit of christian holiness. The theoretical model is then taken back to analyse the major issues raised by the historical account: the persistence of laundry work in the refuges, the nuns' resistance to public inspection and control, and their refusal to pay wages to the penitent women. The historical data is largely derived from primary sources and includes architectural, statistical, and photographic material, as well as documentary evidence.

Orientadora: Mariele Rodrigues Correa / Banca: Diana Pancini de Sá Antunes Ribeiro / Banca: Maria Júlia Kovács / Resumo: Devido ao fenômeno do envelhecimento populacional e a incerteza da existência de cuidadores para essa população nota-se um aumento na procura de Instituições de Longa Permanência para Idosos (ILPIs), popularmente conhecidas como asilos. Essa pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar as experiências de perdas e lutos vividas pelos idosos asilados, partindo do pressuposto que a elaboração do luto não é apenas necessária quando há a morte concreta de um sujeito. A própria entrada no asilo acarreta uma série de perdas que precisam de elaboração, como o rompimento de vínculos com familiares e pessoas próximas, afastamento do mundo externo, perda da casa e de objetos, perda da autonomia, entre outras coisas. Entendemos que a fala é uma importante via para a elaboração desses lutos, tanto de mortes concretas como de mortes simbólicas. Para isso, recolhemos narrativas de oito residentes com idades entre 62 a 93 anos, de uma forma em que eles pudessem contar e recontar suas histórias quantas vezes fosse necessário, de modo a colocá-los como protagonistas da própria vida. Realizamos uma inserção semanal na instituição asilar ao longo de oito meses como forma de estabelecer a manutenção dos vínculos com os idosos e a possibilidade de estar junto deles e oferecer uma escuta adequada. Utilizamos a psicanálise como referencial metodológico a fim de averiguar os processos de luto enfrentados por essa população no contexto asilar. Ao oferecer uma escuta sensível pudemos descobrir enredos que tinha... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Due to the populational aging phenomenon and the uncertainty of the existence of care takers for this population, we observe an increase in the search for Long-term care institutions for the elderly, largely known as nursing homes. This research take as na objective to analyze the grief and loss experiences undertaken by the institucionalized elderly, starting from the premise that grief elaboration is not only necessary in the concrete death of a subject. Even the entrance in a nursing home causes a series of losses that need to be elaborated, like the sundering of familiar and close persons links, the removal from the outside world, home and personal objects losses, autonomy loss, among others. We understand that the speech is a important way to elaborate those griefs, from concrete deaths as well as simbolic deaths. For this end, we gathered eight residents narratives, with ages between 62 and 93 years, in a way that they could tell and retell their histories as many times as was necessary, placing then as their own live's protagonists. Through 8 months, we made a weekly visit to the nursing home to estabilish and maintain links with the elderly and the possibility to be together and offer a proper listening. For this purpose, psychoanalysis will be used as a method in order to ascertain the processes of grief faced by this population in the nursing home context. In offering a sensible listening we could discover story that had the grief in his various expressions as the... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

In Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 short story, "Half a Life-Time Ago," Susan Dixon faces a difficult choice regarding her younger brother, who has gone insane after an illness: should she try to care for him at home or commit him to the nearby Lancaster Asylum? Although fictional, Susan's situation highlights an important Victorian debate about the care of the insane and the reformation of public asylums. This debate, and the changes enacted by nineteenth-century asylum reformers as a result of the cultural conversation, brought new attention to the relationship between the mind, the body, and the will as the concept of moral management as a method of treatment for the insane gained popularity. Dr. Samuel Gaskell, Commissioner in the English Lunacy Commission, Supervisor of the Lancaster Asylum, and Elizabeth's brother-in-law, dedicated his career to implementing the tenets of moral management in the institutions within his purview. For proponents like Dr. Gaskell, the moral management method of treatment restored dignity to patients by giving them the responsibility to bring themselves--through self-discipline, labor, and the exercise of will--back to sanity and thus back into the communities from which their illness excluded them. Many who supported asylum reform regarded moral management as a revolutionary tool with the power to restore happiness and peace to individuals, families, and institutions struggling to deal humanely with insanity. Susan Dixon's exploration of the parameters of moral management as a method of treatment for her bother, however, calls its effectiveness into question. Although Susan is an exemplary moral manager and diligently attempts to re-train her brother by utilizing the principles that Dr. Gaskell used to reform Lancaster Asylum, her implementation of moral management causes the destruction of the Dixon household and the physical, social, and mental disintegration of Susan herself. As Susan and her brother demonstrate in what might be regarded as Gaskell's fictional case study of her brother-in-law's beliefs, no amount of moral management can successfully treat insanity, and insisting that such a program might be undertaken by the insane--or by others on their behalf--is woefully miscalculated.