Psychiatrie et addictions au XXe siècle

Psychiatry and addictions in the 20th century

International conference / colloque international

Organized by Anatole Le Bras and Marianna Scarfone

Strasbourg, 26-27 January 2023

The aim of this international conference is to explore psychiatry’s contribution to the troubled history of the medicalization of addictions in Europe throughout the 20th century. This question will be explored through the lens of medical concepts, institutions of care and cure, as well as patients’ experiences, with contributions from scholars from Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.

Maison interuniversitaire des sciences de l’homme – Alsace
5, allée du Général Rouvillois, Strasbourg
Salle de la table-ronde
Free entry / entrée libre

Registration for the online broadcast / Inscription pour suivre l’événement en ligne :
anatole.lebras@unistra.fr & mscarfone@unistra.fr

For more information: https://evenements.unistra.fr/agenda-unistra/detail-evenement/21018-psychiatry-and-addictions-in-the-20th-century



26 January

2:00-2:30 pm
Anatole Le Bras and Marianna Scarfone, Introduction


Early 20th century: the uneasy conquest of new territories
Chair: Virginia Berridge (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

2:30-3:00pm
Zoë Dubus (Aix-Marseille University), Iatrogenic morphinomania and professional issues in the field of French psychiatry at the end of the 19th century


3:00-3:30pm
Victoria Afanasyeva (Paris-1-Panthéon-Sorbonne University), Breaking conventions: care for upper class alcoholics in La Source sanatorium in the suburbs of Paris (1902-1911)


3:30-4:00pm
Coffee break


4:00-4:30pm
Kostis Gotsinas (National Hellenic Research Foundation), Difficult patients: drug users and their treatment in early 20th century Greece

4:30-5:00pm
Rebecka Klette (University of London), Reclaiming the voice of a Swedish morphine addict at the beginning of the 20th century


5:00-5:30pm
Discussion



27 January

Alcoholic patients in and out of psychiatric institutions
Chair: Anatole Le Bras (University of Strasbourg)

10:00-10:30am
Tomas Vaiseta (Vilnius University), When Everyone and No One Believes: A Treatment of Alcoholism in the Soviet Psychiatric Hospitals (1944-1990)


10:30-11:00am
Samuel Dal Zilio (University of Luxembourg), In and out of the mental hospital. Life paths of alcoholic patients in a Brussels psychiatric institution in the 1960s


11:00-11:30am
Marica Setaro (University of Strasbourg), Alcoholism and therapeutic community: the cultural, clinical and institutional dimensions of a difficult experiment. Gorizia 1965-1971


11:30-12:00am
Discussion


12:00am-2:00pm
Lunch break

Late 20th century: psychiatric deinstitutionalization and new conceptualizations of addictions
Chair: Alexandre Marchant (ENS Paris-Saclay)


2:00-2:30pm
Vanessa Roghi (Lumsa University), Between democratic psychiatry and the institutionalisation of the drug addict. Italy 1975-1980


2:30-3:00pm
Oliver Falk (Universitätsmedizin Berlin – Charité), Berlin (West) on Drugs – How Heroin use affected the psychiatric reconceptualization of drug addiction and its treatment, 1970-1990


3:00-3:30pm
Raphaël Tinguely (University of Lausanne), Binge Watching: An Archeology of the “Addiction” to TV series


3:30-4:00pm
Discussion


4:00-4:30pm
Virginia Berridge, Conclusion