Mittwoch, 11. Dezember 2019, 18:00 - 20:30 iCal
Our psychiatric future
Is another psychiatric biopolitics possible?
Aula am Campus der Universität Wien
Spitalgasse 2-4 / Hof 1.11, 1090 Wien
Vortrag
Prof Nikolas Rose will be visiting the Department of Political Science (CeSCoS) in December 2019. Amongst other activities, Prof Rose will hold a public lecture at the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Vienna).
ABSTRACT
Psychiatry, since it took its modern form in the mid-nineteenth century, has always been a ‘political’ science - historically in relation to degeneracy and eugenics, mental hygiene, and the management of ‘dangerous individuals’ in the court and psychiatric system’; today in relation to the ‘economic burden’ of mental ill health, the Global Mental Health Movement seeking to expand Euro-America psychiatry to the Global South, the challenges of mental disorder refugees, migrants and children in the Global North and so forth. While much focus has been on the emergence of new ‘neurobiological’ styles of thought in psychiatric research, there are signs that a new psychiatric strategy is taking shape. This new biopolitics of psychiatry, which would focus less on treatment in the clinic, and more on the integration of psychiatry into the domain of public health. In this talk I will consider the possibilities that psychiatry could become a branch of social medicine, identifying and addressing the forms of social adversity that give rise to mental distress, understanding the pathways by which they act, and transforming the power relations that have always characterised this form of expert knowledge. I will suggest that we are at a potential turning point and outline the possibilities for a new, different and political progressive psychiatric biopolitics.
Veranstalter
Institut für Politikwissenschaft (CeSCoS | Zeitgenössische Solidaritätsstudien)
Kontakt
Katharina Theresa Paul
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
CeSCoS | Zeitgenössische Solidaritätsstudien
01/4277 49438
katharina.t.paul@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Mittwoch, 31. Juli 2019, 14:48
Letzte Änderung am Mittwoch, 14. August 2019, 09:15