Description:On a cold October day in 1951, Clara is laid to rest in absolute silence. Her husband Carl has asked the assistant pastor not to talk about the deceased. The silence is due, among other things, to the fact that Clara ends her days in a mental institution in North Zealand. Here she was cut off from contact with her children, who only find her letters after their father's death and learn what had happened. Most families have secrets, but the way we understand and treat mental illness has changed drastically over the past hundred years. From being hidden, hushed up, and primarily handled in the private spaces of the family, challenged minds and psychiatric diagnoses are now discussed much more openly, both publicly and privately. By combining widely different sources – fiction, patient records and interviews – with fragments of the author's own family history, Sickness and Shame sheds light on how the view of and lived experience of mental illness has changed with cultural and political developments in welfare state Denmark, and how family history, welfare history and psychiatry history have influenced each other in different periods. We can never fully understand the experiences of mental illness in the past. But the picture that the sources in this book together create shifts the perspective on mental illness from being a primarily individual problem to a more collective, inter-social issue. In doing so, it sheds new light on aspects of our common history that have not yet been told, and contributes to nuanced current debates about the development and role of psychiatry today.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sygdom og skam: Sindslidelsernes erfaringshistorie i velfærdsstaten. To get started finding Sygdom og skam: Sindslidelsernes erfaringshistorie i velfærdsstaten, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
200
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Nord Academic / Gads forlag
Release
2025
ISBN
8712075264
Sygdom og skam: Sindslidelsernes erfaringshistorie i velfærdsstaten
Description: On a cold October day in 1951, Clara is laid to rest in absolute silence. Her husband Carl has asked the assistant pastor not to talk about the deceased. The silence is due, among other things, to the fact that Clara ends her days in a mental institution in North Zealand. Here she was cut off from contact with her children, who only find her letters after their father's death and learn what had happened. Most families have secrets, but the way we understand and treat mental illness has changed drastically over the past hundred years. From being hidden, hushed up, and primarily handled in the private spaces of the family, challenged minds and psychiatric diagnoses are now discussed much more openly, both publicly and privately. By combining widely different sources – fiction, patient records and interviews – with fragments of the author's own family history, Sickness and Shame sheds light on how the view of and lived experience of mental illness has changed with cultural and political developments in welfare state Denmark, and how family history, welfare history and psychiatry history have influenced each other in different periods. We can never fully understand the experiences of mental illness in the past. But the picture that the sources in this book together create shifts the perspective on mental illness from being a primarily individual problem to a more collective, inter-social issue. In doing so, it sheds new light on aspects of our common history that have not yet been told, and contributes to nuanced current debates about the development and role of psychiatry today.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sygdom og skam: Sindslidelsernes erfaringshistorie i velfærdsstaten. To get started finding Sygdom og skam: Sindslidelsernes erfaringshistorie i velfærdsstaten, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.