Långbro Hospital, Sweden—From Psychiatric Institution to Digital Museum: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Sites of oppression might be remembered in ways that contribute to dialogues about human rights and justice, exemplified by Sites of Conscience. Oppression was commonplace in former psychiatric institutions, yet such institutions are often subject to strategic forgetting and transformed into business parks, hotels, or residential areas. This article concerns Långbro Hospital, a digital museum presenting the former psychiatric institution Långbro, Sweden, now transformed into a residential area. I discuss how the former institution becomes a digital nonplace in which patients tend to be objectified or excluded, and the park and the buildings in which oppression occurred are reduced to representing beauty and functionality. I relate the analysis to digital Sites of Conscience such as British Museum of Colonialism and Pennhurst Memorial and Preservation Alliance and, thereby, show that thoughtful digitization might recognize prior as well as current injustice and oppression and contribute to change.

Military psychiatric affairs in the Austro-Hungarian, German and French armies.

For the mentally ill Austro-Hungarian army, there are several psychiatric departments at military hospitals and, in addition, a separate psychiatric institution in Nagyszombat (Trnau too)).

“The Day I Die Is The Day I Will Find My Peace”: Narratives of Family, Marriage, and Violence Among Women Living With Serious Mental Illness in India

In India, there is limited research on the nature of familial relationships and domestic violence that women living with serious mental illness (SMI) experience. Using the self-in-relation theory and through 34 in-depth interviews, I explored narratives related to family, marriage, and violence in familial relationships among women living with SMI at a psychiatric institution in an urban city in India. These narratives are critical because they highlight how the presence of mental illness exacerbates the violence women experience. Informed by participants’ narratives, I offer specific recommendations on creating gender-sensitive mental health care that is mindful of women’s social realities.

Broken Record: An Arts-Informed Autoethnography of Adolescent Institutionalization

“Broken Record” is a Masters Research Project in which I explore my experience in an adolescent psychiatric institution using an arts-informed autoethnographic method. The final project is a 200-page artistic exploration of language, meaning, identity, and psychiatry. This component of the research outlines the critical objectives of the project and grounds the work in a body of existing literature. The primary contribution of the paper is its presentation of Madness as Method, a distinct approach to autoethnographic research on madness and psychiatric survival that mobilizes mad subjectivity to generate knowledge from a place of embodiment, distress, memory work, and academic research. I outline this methodology at length, identifying and exploring its four stages: unravelling, integration, narrative, and reckoning. I conclude this paper by situating my Masters Research Project in the context of my Masters training and my professional goals beyond the academy.

Broken Record: An Arts-Informed Autoethnography of Adolescent Institutionalization

“Broken Record” is a Masters Research Project in which I explore my experience in an adolescent psychiatric institution using an arts-informed autoethnographic method. The final project is a 200-page artistic exploration of language, meaning, identity, and psychiatry. This component of the research outlines the critical objectives of the project and grounds the work in a body of existing literature. The primary contribution of the paper is its presentation of Madness as Method, a distinct approach to autoethnographic research on madness and psychiatric survival that mobilizes mad subjectivity to generate knowledge from a place of embodiment, distress, memory work, and academic research. I outline this methodology at length, identifying and exploring its four stages: unravelling, integration, narrative, and reckoning. I conclude this paper by situating my Masters Research Project in the context of my Masters training and my professional goals beyond the academy.

ON ISSUE CONCERNING TYPES OF OTHER CRIMINAL AND LEGAL MEASURES FOR JUVEMILES: NORMATIVE APPROACH

Much attention in society is given to the problem of the impact of criminal and legal measures on juvenile offenders but it does not lead to radical change. Juveniles often commit various types of criminal offenses related to drug use and violence. In the process of analyzing the Criminal Code of Ukraine and special literature in order to study the legal nature of other measures of criminal law applicable to minors, the following their types are investigated: coercive measures of medical nature, special confiscation and coercive measures of educational nature. In order to treat, improve the mental state, prevent committing of new offenses against minors, coercive measures of medical nature are applied. Namely they are: providing compulsory outpatient psychiatric care; hospitalization in a psychiatric institution with regular supervision; hospitalization in a psychiatric institution of intensive care; hospitalization in a psychiatric institution under strict supervision. Special confiscation is a compulsory, gratuitous seizure by a court of state property of money, property and other property and applies to a minor in general. Determining the type of coercive measure takes place in court and depends on the severity of the crime and other circumstances. Coercive measures of educational nature are measures aimed at educating minors, providing additional control over them and preventing from committing of new socially dangerous actions. Types of such measures are warnings; restriction of leisure and establishment of special requirements for minor’s behavior; transferring under the supervision of parents or persons replacing them, or teaching or work staff with their consent, or individual citizens at their request; imposing on a minor who has reached the age of fifteen and has property, money or earnings, the obligation to compensate for the property damage caused; referral of a minor to a special educational institution and appointment of a minor educator. Key words: juvenile criminal law, Criminal Code of Ukraine, coercive measures of medical nature, special confiscation, coercive measures of educational nature, punishment.

Cultural Codes of Fear

This paper focuses on a specific type of archival material from the first psychiatric institution in Croatia, the Stenjevec Royal National Institute for the Insane in Zagreb, today the Vrapče University Psychiatric Hospital, dating from the period from its foundation in 1879 until 1900. More specifically, it focuses on patient narratives featuring fantastical beings, i.e., narrations about their life relying on the genre of belief legends. Based on this material, which is considered to be an important albeit atypical folkloristic corpus, the paper analyzes and interprets the status and functions of the genre of belief legends (more specifically, the memorate) in daily life narratives, personal stories and in coding affects (primarily fear). The role of belief legends is examined not only from the perspective of oral tradition and literature, but also in terms of their social and psychological position, and through the lens of psychiatric discourse of the time, which recognizes such narratives merely as symptoms of madness, translating and coding them as the language of abnormality and psychopathology.

Quem Atirou Em Nóis Errou

Texto/ensaio sobre o projeto as relações de colonialidade no projeto artístico Não Coma O Microfone que aconteceu na instuição psiquiátrica Dr. Guislain - Gent (Be) e no Pólo Experimental / Museu Bispo do Rosário - Rio de Janeiro (BR). AbstractText/essay on the relations of coloniality in the artistic project (Don’t) Eat the Microphone that took place at the psychiatric institution Dr. Guislain (Gent/BE) and at the Polo Experimental / Museu Bispo do Rosário (Rio de Janeiro/BR).

Indagando en los Silencios del Franquismo: Carta de una Mujer Ingresada en un Manicomio de Gipuzkoa

Breaking the social rol has, almost always, consequences. That is the case of Carole, a woman who has been hospitalized in a psychiatric institution in Gipuzkoa between 1949 and 1950. Carole was Belge and she highlighted explicitly the characteristics of Franco's regime. Based on a letter she wrote during her hospitalization and on her medical report, this article composes an image of the morality and the society in that time in the southern Euskal Herria. Furthermore, through an analysis of an individual case, not only silences and repression will surface but also the resistances.