How did the World Wars shape the practice of psychiatry and the larger mental health field? And how has psychiatric discourse in turn changed how we think about the self? What constitutes mental illness? Who gets to define it and how it should be treated?

Mental Health in History: Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry

Host Amanda Anderson explores topics of vital societal interest through conversations with scholars and writers whose voices have helped define issues and shape debates. Special focus on the forms of knowledge that characterize the humanities. Produced by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University.

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Mental Health in History: Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry

Mental Health in History: Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry