Histoire des catégories psychiatriques

Psychopathological fringes. Historical and social science perspectives on category work in psychiatry

Workshop

Date: 13./14.2.2015

Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin
Charité|Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Venue : Thielallee 71, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Seminarraum
xx49-30-450529072 (office Mrs. Voth)

Organization: Nicolas Henckes, Volker Hess, Emmanuel Delille, Marie Reinholdt, Stefan Reinsch, Lara Rzesnitzek,

Contact: stefanie.voth@charite.de

This workshop will investigate the multifaceted practices developed by clinicians, epidemiologists, biologists, administrators and patients to negotiate and objectify the boundaries of diagnostic categories. In contrast with constructionist perspectives, our goal is not to show the less than solid nature of core psychiatric categories, but rather to explore the already internally contested and marginal categories devised to target conditions situated at the borders of psychopathology.

Friday 13 February
9:30 Opening remarks
Nicolas Henckes, Volker Hess Welcome and introduction

10:00 The fringes of Psychosis

10:00 Richard Noll (DeSales Pa, USA) Centers and Peripheries of Liminal Concepts in a Profession Unconcerned with Diagnostic Error: American Alienism, Prodromes and Psychosis, 1894 to 1912

10:45 Edward Shorter (Toronto, CA) Defining Psychosis Downwards

11:30 Break

11:45 Marie Reinholdt (Villejuif, F) Anticipating psychosis: Danish high risk research and the dream of the prevention of schizophrenia
Commentary: Jörg Niewöhner (Berlin, D)

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Psychopathy as a liminal concept

14:00 Annika Berg (Stockholm, S) Bridging and delimiting: negotiations around psychopathy and querulous behaviour in 1930s Sweden

14:45 Bolette Frydendahl Larsen (Lund, S) Psychopathy as a traveling concept

15:30 Lara Rzesnitzek (Berlin, G) & Nicolas Henckes (Villejuif, F) Negotiating uncertainty, performing doubt: differential diagnosis in early psychosis
Commentary: Steeves Demazeux (Bordeaux, F)

17 :00 Moral fringes

17 :00 Julie Mazaleigue-Labaste (Amiens, F) Psychosexual disorders from 1850 to the 21st century : which transformations ?

17: 45 Ken MacLeish (Nashville TN, USA) On “Moral Injury”: category work and doing violence in US military behavioral health
Commentary : Volker Hess (Berlin, G)

20:00 Conference Dinner

Saturday 14 February

10:00 Emergent categories

10:00 Céline Borelle (Cachan, F) The logic, uncertainty and utility of a liminal diagnostic category. The “Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified” diagnosis in practices.

10:45 Lara Keuck (Berlin, G) Category work between poetry and prose: From ‘not normal, not demented’ back to the introduction of Alzheimer’s disease

11:30 Break

11:45 Vincent Pidoux (Bruxelles, B) Periphery or core? Executive functions from neurology to psychiatric neuroscience
Commentary: Nicolas Henckes (Paris, F)

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Cultural Fringes

14:00 Ivan Crozier (Sydney, Aus) Culture bound syndrome as theory bound objectts: koro and theory change

14:45 Egidio Priani (Leicester, UK) Italian Fringes: Pellagra between psyche and soma in Venetian asylums, 1840-1920

15:30 Benjamin Zajicek (Towson, USA) Defining Insanity in Stalin’s Soviet Union: Schizophrenia and Psychiatric Authority in the Soviet Union, 1928-1938
Commentary: Stefan Ecks (Edinburgh, UK)

16:45 Closing remarks