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A social history of mental health care in Greece, c. 1900-1920hospitals, patients, and society /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A social history of mental health care in Greece, c. 1900-1920by Despo Kritsotaki.
Reminder of title:	hospitals, patients, and society /
Author:	Kritsotaki, Despo.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xviii, 262 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Mental health servicesHistory20th century.Greece
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05764-8
ISBN:	9783032057648$q(electronic bk.)

A social history of mental health care in Greece, c. 1900-1920hospitals, patients, and society /
Kritsotaki, Despo.

A social history of mental health care in Greece, c. 1900-1920hospitals, patients, and society /[electronic resource] :by Despo Kritsotaki. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xviii, 262 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Mental health in historical perspective,2634-6044. - Mental health in historical perspective..

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I. Mental Health Care in Context -- Chapter 2: Greece in the Early Twentieth Century -- Chapter 3: Mental Health Care in Greece up to the First Decades of the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4: The Economic Aspects of Institutional Mental Health Care -- Part II. The Patients of the Institutions -- Chapter 5: Men and Women -- Chapter 6: Young and Old, married and Single -- Chapter 7: Where did Patients Live and Work? -- Chapter 8: Diagnoses and Symptoms -- Part III. Psychiatric Hospitalisation -- Chapter 9: Private Aspects of Institutional Mental Health Care -- Chapter 10: Public Aspects of Institutional Mental Health Care -- Chapter 11: The Boundaries between Institutions and Society -- Chapter 12: Scientific and Professional Aspects of Institutional Mental Health Care -- Epliogue.

This book examines the social and cultural meanings of mental illness and psychiatric hospitalisation in early twentieth-century Greece. Although Greek psychiatrists were trained in countries such as France and Germany, and followed general European models of psychiatry, they practiced within a different economic, social, and cultural context. By focusing on a country on the periphery of Europe, this book explores new dimensions of mental health care on the continent, and illustrates how European theories were adapted by Greek psychiatrists. The author presents case studies of two Greek mental health hospitals, Dromokaitio and Eginitio, both of which were situated in Athens, but treated patients from all over Greece. Exploring how patients came to be admitted to the hospitals, the book highlights the relationship between communities and mental health institutions, and thus, the interplay between society and asylum. It investigates both private and public discourses around mental illness and hospitalisation, bringing to the forefront patients, family members, state and local authorities, charitable organisations, and medical professionals. Combining multiple perspectives on psychiatric hospitalisation, this book provides a nuanced account of the history of mental illness and health care in Greece, and highlights the different purposes, limitations, and contradictions inherent in treating the mentally ill. Despo Kritsotaki is a Researcher in the Modern Greek History Research Centre at the Academy of Athens, Greece. She is interested in the history of health sciences in the twentieth century, focusing on mental health and women's health.

ISBN: 9783032057648$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-032-05764-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1008242
Mental health services
--History--Greece--20th century.

LC Class. No.: RA790.7.G8

Dewey Class. No.: 362.20949509041

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