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DESCRIPTION:Decolonising madness? Transcultural psychiatry\, international 
 order and the emergence of the ‘global psyche’\n\nBy Ana Antic\, Lamia Mog
 hnieh\, Shilpi Rajpal\, Gabriel Abarca-Brown. This talk will be held by Zo
 om.\n\nThe project ‘Decolonising Madness’ explores the emergence and devel
 opment of the discipline of transcultural psychiatry in the twentieth cent
 ury. It examines how some of the most important political events\, such as
  the Second World War\, colonial conflicts and decolonisation\, shaped the
  institutionalisation of global psychiatry and its increasing engagement w
 ith the relationship between culture and mental illness. In this talk\, th
 e four project members will discuss their argument that the concept of a g
 lobal psyche and universal humanity is not a recent development\, but that
  it emerged in the mid-twentieth century and was centrally shaped by the p
 rocesses of decolonisation. At that time\, leading psychiatric figures acr
 oss the world embarked on identifying\, debating and sometimes critiquing 
 the universal psychological characteristics and psychopathological mechani
 sms supposedly shared among all cultures and ‘civilisations’. Was global p
 sychiatry successful in removing itself from its erstwhile colonial framew
 orks? How did the profession negotiate the tensions between researching cu
 ltural particularities and developing new\, cross-cultural models of the m
 ind? The project explores the multiple voices - Chilean\, Indian\, Lebanes
 e\, Yugoslav\, Tunisian\, Soviet\, Sudanese\, Ghanaian - which took part i
 n these discussions. How did their perspectives shape the field\, how did 
 they grapple with its colonial and racist aspects\, and why does their rol
 e now seem to be so radically diminished?\n\nAna Antic is a professor of E
 uropean history at the University of Copenhagen\, and a social and cultura
 l historian of psychiatry. She is the author of Therapeutic fascism: Exper
 iencing the violence of the Nazi New Order (2017) and Non-aligned psychiat
 ry in the Cold War (2022)\, and leader of the new Centre for Culture and t
 he Mind.\n\nLamia Moghnieh is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of C
 openhagen\, a mental health practitioner and a medical anthropologist. Her
  upcoming book manuscript\, provisionally entitled Psychiatric Afterlives:
  Narrating Illness\, Gender\, and Violence in Lebanon offers a new history
  of psychiatry and public life in Lebanon that critically engages with the
  voices of patients and therapeutic communities since the 1930 to present 
 day.\n\nShilpi Rajpal is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenh
 agen\, and a social historian of psychiatry in colonial India. Her book 'C
 uring Madness? A Social and Cultural History of Insanity in North India\, 
 1800-1950s'\, was published in 2020 by Oxford University Press\, New Delhi
 . Curing Madness focuses on both institutional and non-institutional histo
 ries of madness in colonial North India.\n\nGabriel Abarca-Brown is a Post
 doctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen\, a clinical psychologist\
 , psychoanalyst\, and medical anthropologist. His research focuses on the 
 intersections between psy-disciplines\, global mental health\, subjectivit
 y\, and everyday life. He has co-edited the book entitled “¿Somos sujetos 
 cerebrales? Neurociencias\, Salud Mental y Sociedad” (2022/in press). Curr
 ently\, he is working on the book manuscript entitled “Becoming a (neuro)m
 igrant in Santiago\, Chile” and starting a new research project on the bir
 th of transcultural psychiatry during the “Chilean way” to socialism durin
 g the 60-70s.\n
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SUMMARY:Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry\, Culture and Global 
 Mental Health Speaker Series
URL:/psychiatry/channels/event/division-social-transcu
 ltural-psychiatry-culture-and-global-mental-health-speaker-series-342613
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