Histoires transculturelles des psychothérapies

Intersections in Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies

4th Annual One day International Conference

UCL Health Humanities Centre / Institute of Advanced Studies

27 July 2019


Psychotherapeutic practices have spread through the world through intersecting trade routes, and reshaped the social sphere. This conference draws together scholars working on histories of psychotherapies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Japan, Italy, the UK and the US to explore the convergences and divergences of these developments in different cultures.


10.45-11.15am registration/coffee

11.15-11.30am Professor Sonu Shamdasani (chair) (UCL) Introduction

11.30-12.00am Professor Mariano Ruperthuz (University of Santiago, Chile), Psychotherapy in Chile: The Acceleration of Time and the Generation of New Psychopathologies.

12.00-12.30am Professor Christiana Faccinetti (Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Art in Asylums in the Age of Catastrophe: Between Degeneration and the Vanguard (Brazil, 1914-1945)

12.30-1pm Professor Akihito Suzuki (Keio University, Tokyo), Communities in the Psychiatric Hospital in Tokyo: Long-Term Confinement and Patient's Relationships in the Early Twentieth Century


1.00-2.30pm lunch


2.30-3.00pm Dr. Suzanne Hollman (Divine Mercy University, USA/UCL), William Alanson White and Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital: 1915-1937

3.00-3.30pm Professor Marco Innamorati (University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy), Jung in Italy: The First Years

3.30-4.00pm Professor Alejandro Dagfal (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Glory, Decline and Rebirth of French Lacanianism (1964-1984). From Intellectual Adventure to Psychoanalytic Diaspora

4.00-4.30 tea

4.30-5.00pm Dr. Ulrich Koch (George Washington University, USA), Writing the History of Psychotherapeutics in the Age of Psychopharmacology. The Case of Methadone Maintenance Treatment, 1964-1973

5.00-5.30pm Dr. Sarah Marks (Birkbeck University), CBT: The Long View


Sponsored by the UCL Global Engagement Office


Location: Institute of Advanced Studies, IAS Forum, Room G17, Ground Floor, South Wing, Ground Floor, South Wing, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.


Register at https://intersections-thp.eventbrite.co.uk


Tickets: £30; Registered Students (bring proof of ID) £20; UCL staff/student (with UCL ID) free.

(Image: Nova totius Terrarum Orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula, Hendrik Hondius, 1630)