Comments on: The Retrospectoscope: Pinel, On Insanity

By: Shiyiya

Shiyiya — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:48:15 +0000

Please do make it a series! Very interesting, if fairly horrifying o.o

By: lauredhel

lauredhel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:06:58 +0000

conductress: I’ll be mostly limited to the books in my possession, but I’m willing to take submissions if you’ve something you’d like to show.

By: conductress

conductress — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:07:22 +0000

I definitely hope this turns into a series. If you don’t mind my suggesting it, I think it would also be very interesting to juxtapose these types of texts with 1960s antipsychiatry type texts that romanticize insanity, which can be just as damaging.

By: MK

MK — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:59:12 +0000

Please make this a regular thing!

I read the block of text before reading the headline, so when the speaker mentioned spilling blood, my first thought was of staff physically abusing patients.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:25:44 +0000

Ha ha ha! Yes, please do make this a series. You might also be interested in checking out Michelle Dawson's "Verbatim" series, where she reproduces passages from contemporary and historical autism experts that show surprising things about their understanding of and opinion on various autism-related issues. Sometimes the surprising thing will be positive, like a contemporary autism expert showing a more nuanced, not strictly deficit-based understanding of what autism is, or sometimes it will be horrible, like a description of horribly abusive practices countenanced as "therapy."

By: Adelaide Dupont

Adelaide Dupont — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:27:42 +0000

C'est magnifique! In English: how appropriate to start with Pinel. I think the oldest medical book I have in my house is probably Cyril Burt's The backward child, written and published in the 1930s. Blood and instutionalisation continue to be big issues. .-= Adelaide Dupont´s last blog ..Running sheet for Key Concepts and Development: prelim and first draft, with pics and sounds! =-.