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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields | Studies of Asian Society | Other Studies in Human Society | History and Philosophy of Medicine | History And Philosophy Of Medicine | Historical Studies | Anthropology not elsewhere classified | Health Policy | Law and Society | Historical Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | History: Asian | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Understanding other countries | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Social Structure and Health | Understanding Australia's Past | Religion and Society | Understanding Asia's Past | Studies in human society | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Health Policy Evaluation
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Publications
Mental health literacy of Indonesian health practitioners and implications for mental health system development
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
Traumatic Pasts in Asia
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Date: 08-09-2022
Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Indonesia from Colonial to Modern Times
Publisher: Springer US
Date: 2017
Mental Health in Australia: Current State and New Directions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2011
Psychology and psychiatry in the global world: Historical perspectives.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 08-2019
DOI: 10.1037/HOP0000131
Abstract: Introduces articles in the special issue of
The Nature of the Native Mind: Contested Views of Dutch Colonial Psychiatrists in the former Dutch East Indies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2007
WAR & Military Mental Health
Publisher: American Public Health Association
Date: 12-2007
Abstract: Involvement in warfare can have dramatic consequences for the mental health and well-being of military personnel. During the 20th century, US military psychiatrists tried to deal with these consequences while contributing to the military goal of preserving manpower and reducing the debilitating impact of psychiatric syndromes by implementing screening programs to detect factors that predispose in iduals to mental disorders, providing early intervention strategies for acute war-related syndromes, and treating long-term psychiatric disability after deployment. The success of screening has proven disappointing, the effects of treatment near the front lines are unclear, and the results of treatment for chronic postwar syndromes are mixed. After the Persian Gulf War, a number of military physicians made innovative proposals for a population-based approach, anchored in primary care instead of specialty-based care. This approach appears to hold the most promise for the future.
Building Psychiatric Expertise across Southeast Asia: Study Trips, Site Visits, and Therapeutic Labor in French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies, 1898–1937
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2016
DOI: 10.1017/S001041751600030X
Abstract: This paper examines a series of research trips undertaken by French physicians in Indochina to the Dutch East Indies between 1898 and 1937 to study what they saw to be a successful model of a modern psychiatric service that had been developed there. Dutch experiments with forms of “open door” care and the use of patient labor as therapy, premised on earlier ideas of moral treatment, seemed to hold both therapeutic promise and the key to resolving pressing economic concerns faced by colonial psychiatric institutions. French physicians saw in neighboring Java fundamental ethnological and geographical similarities to Indochina, and Dutch successes in psychiatric assistance there raised the prospect of adapting practices the Dutch had developed to their own program in Indochina throughout the interwar years.
European Physicians and Botanists, Indigenous Herbal Medicine in the Dutch East Indies, and Colonial Networks of Mediation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-07-2009
Health and Disease in the Colonies
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2013
6 Performing Songs and Staging Theatre Performances: Working through the Trauma of the 1965/66 Indonesian Mass Killings
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Date: 31-12-2021
Eugenics in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 18-09-2012
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780195373141.013.0021
Abstract: Eugenics has never held broad appeal in the Netherlands and is taken up far more enthusiastically in the Dutch East Indies. This article aims to investigate the characteristics of the racial and ethnic groups that inhabited the Indonesian archipelago, acclimatization, the consequences of crossbreeding, and the effects of rapid modernization. It discusses percieved threats to the quality of the Dutch population. It concerns the participation of eugenicists in public health discussions that focuses on the quality of the future population of the Netherlands. Tensions between racial and ethnic groups provide the main context for a growing interest in eugenics in the Dutch East Indies. This article discusses the main reason for the lack of success of the rather moderate eugenics movement in the Netherlands as related to the pillarization of Dutch society.
Notes from Batavia, the Europeans' Graveyard: The Nineteenth-Century Debate on Acclimatization in the Dutch East Indies
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 12-02-2011
DOI: 10.1093/JHMAS/JRR004
Abstract: Since the advent of European colonial expansion, medical theories of acclimatization have been inextricably related to convictions about the possibility and desirability of white settlement in the colonies, and political ideas of colonial governance. Before 1800, acclimatization theories emphasized the inherent flexibility of the human constitution and its ability to adapt to new environments. During the first half of the nineteenth century, European theorists came to highlight the vulnerability of white Europeans in the tropics to disease, degeneration, and death instead. They consequently argued that white settlement in the tropics was impossible and inadvisable. European physicians in the British and French colonies presented similar views. By contrast, their colleagues in the Dutch East Indies remained optimistic. They associated themselves with the colonial European settler community and shared their grievances against autocratic colonial rule. They presented medical theories which related acclimatization to prudent behavior, morality, and proper management of the environment, thereby downplaying the significance of climate and high temperatures. During the following decades, their views on acclimatization were transferred to the Netherlands, where they were deployed as an argument against the cultivation system, the then-current approach of colonial governance, which emphasized the trade of cash crops grown by the indigenous population, severely limited European settlement, and curtailed the rights of Europeans living in the Indies. Throughout the nineteenth century, the influence of climate and the possibility of acclimatization became recurring themes in debates about colonial governance in both the Dutch East Indies and the Netherlands.
Medicine, health, and development in Indonesia
Publisher: De Gruyter
Date: 16-01-2023
Scientific patriotism: Medical science and national self-fashioning in Southeast Asia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1017/S0010417511000600
Abstract: Physicians and scientists dominated the first generation of nationalists in at least three East Asian colonies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the Philippines under the Spanish and United States' regimes, the Dutch East Indies, and the Japanese territory of Taiwan. There is substantial evidence that, in each place, decolonization was yoked to scientific progress—not only in a practical sense, but symbolically too. The first generation to receive training in biological science and to become socialized as professionals used this education to imagine itself as eminently modern, progressive, and cosmopolitan. Their training gave them special authority in deploying organic metaphors of society and state, and made them deft in finding allegories of the human body and the body politic. These scientists and physicians saw themselves as representing universal laws, advancing natural knowledge, and engaging as equals with colleagues in Europe, Japan, and North America. Science gave them a new platform for communication. In the British Empire, for ex le in India and Malaya, medical science also proved influential, though it seems lawyers cognizant of precedent and tradition more often dominated decolonization movements. This essay will examine how scientific training shaped anti-colonialism and nationalism in the Philippines and the East Indies, concluding with a brief comparison of the situation in Taiwan.
The Repression of War Trauma in American Psychiatry after WWII
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 1999
August Hollingshead and Frederick Redlich: Poverty, Socioeconomic Status, and Mental Illness
Publisher: American Public Health Association
Date: 10-2007
Methodology and the Social Identity of Psychology
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-1999
The Psychiatrist as Administrator: The Career of W. F. Theunissen in the Dutch East Indies
Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.5401/HEALTHHIST.14.1.0143
Abstract: W. F. Theunissen (1882-1961) was a leading psychiatrist in the Dutch East Indies. He was the medical director of several large mental hospitals after which he became director of the Dutch East Indies Public Health Service. Theunissen was not known for his research into the causes of mental illness. Instead, he made his mark as an administrator greatly reducing the expenses of the Lawang mental hospital by expanding occupational therapy in new and innovative ways. His accomplishments earned him the position of director of the Indies Public Health Department, where he oversaw the decentralisation of health services and the development of public health initiatives.
Between the laboratory and life: Child development research in Toronto, 1919-1956.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2002
DOI: 10.1037/1093-4510.5.2.135
Abstract: Between 1919 and 1956, psychologists at the University of Toronto built a research program in developmental psychology on a functionalist, holistic, and ecological basis. They conducted longitudinal studies on mental health in growing children in educational settings instead of in laboratories and formed strong alliances with the local educational system in order to do so. They initially defined mental health as adjustment and considered conditions within schools to be conducive to its attainment. After developing a psychological theory of personality development, they came to view educational conditions as discouraging the development of mental health. The alliance between the educational system and psychology consequently unraveled, and the program declined.
Between the laboratory and life: Child development research in Toronto, 1919-1956.
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2002
Medical Students and Indonesian Independence
Publisher: JSTOR
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.2307/40111598
Re-Minding the Dutch
Publisher: BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, KNHG
Date: 2009
Abstract: Re-Minding the DutchVerward van Geest is commended because of its careful, balanced, detailed, meticulously researched, and comprehensive approach of the development of the psychiatric profession in the Netherlands. The authors relate Dutch developments to initiatives abroad, some of which were taken up by Dutch psychiatrists and developed further. The development of the extensive network of out-patient mental health facilities in particular, which makes the Dutch system stand apart from that of most others, receives a lot of attention. Unfortunately, the history of psychiatry in the former Dutch colonial empire is not covered. The study is applauded for providing a wealth of material that could give a new impulse to discussions about the nature of mental health in the Netherlands, such as the following: How are supply and demand in mental health care related to each other? Do in iduals with a lower socio-economic status have adequate access to care? How did the relationship between biological, social, and psychological approaches to mental illness and in idual distress change over time? This review is part of the discussion forum 'Verward van geest en ander ongerief' (H. Oosterhuis, M. Gijswijt-Hofstra).
9 Jamu: The Indigenous Medical Arts of the Indonesian Archipelago
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2016
Chapter 27 A history of cerebrovascular disease
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2009
Health and Disease in the Tropical Zone: Nineteenth-century British and Dutch Accounts of European Mortality in the Tropics
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-04-2018
Abstract: Acclimatisation theories varied depending on the political and social contexts in which they were used. Historians of medicine have argued that the pessimism of physicians practising in British India about the acclimatisation of white settlers in the tropics increased around the turn of the eighteenth century. Both British and Dutch physicians had long commented on the proverbial unhealthfulness of Batavia, but rather than relating this to the tropical climate, they emphasised the unwholesome behaviour of Dutch inhabitants. When Dutch physicians debated the possibility of white settlement in the tropical East Indies in the 1840s, many emphasised the importance of virtuous predisposition and intelligent behaviour in adjusting to the colony’s climate, suggesting optimistically that environmental problems might be resisted.
Frankwood E. Williams (1883–1936)
Publisher: American Public Health Association
Date: 04-2007
Divergences in American psychiatry during the Depression: Somatic psychiatry, community mental hygiene, and social reconstruction
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.1002/JHBS.1066
Abstract: The differences between somatic psychiatrists and mental hygienists, already apparent earlier, became much more pronounced during the Depression years, partly as a consequence of their different perspectives on this social crisis. Somatic psychiatrists, emboldened by the apparent success of new medical treatment methods, reasserted the central position of the mental hospital within psychiatry, attempted to improve the discipline's position within medicine, and promoted basic research. Mental hygienists, following the ideal of prevention, proposed far-reaching programs of community mental hygiene to alleviate widespread mental distress. A small group of mental hygienists embraced socialism and advocated measures of radical social reconstruction.
Anomie in the Metropolis: The City in American Sociology and Psychiatry
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 2003
DOI: 10.1086/649384
Abstract: American sociologists and psychiatrists have often characterized cities as sites of social disintegration conducive to insanity. Small-town rural life, by contrast, has been presented as ideally suited for fostering mental health. Early research in psychiatric epidemiology confirmed these views. After World War II, psychiatrists and sociologists collaborated in influential research projects on mental illness in the community. Although these studies were guided by theories of social stratification, which ignores location, cities remained problematic for psychiatrists because they contained high concentrations of poverty and social problems and, consequently, mental health problems.
The Contentious Social Positions of People of Chinese Descent in Indonesia
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
War Neurosis, Adjustment Problems in Veterans, and an Ill Nation: The Disciplinary Project of American Psychiatry during and after World War II
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.1086/521743
Abstract: After World War II, the confidence of American psychiatrists was at an all-time high as a result of their successful participation in the war. When the incidence of mental breakdown in the American armed forces rose to unprecedented heights, new and effective psychotherapeutic methods were developed to treat the traumatic effects of the extraordinary stresses of warfare. At the same time, social scientists concluded that breakdown incidence was inversely related to morale, which led to the development of preventive measures aimed at specific groups. Both initiatives stimulated a number of psychiatrists to plan projects of social engineering after the war. They first focused on aiding the reintegration of returning veterans. Later, they addressed the poor mental health of the American population as a whole, which they considered to be the consequence of faulty child-rearing methods.
Physician-assisted dying and psychiatry: Recent developments in the Netherlands
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2013
DOI: 10.1016/J.IJLP.2013.06.015
Abstract: The Netherlands was one of the first countries in the world to establish a legal framework for physician-assisted dying (PAD). In this article, we provide an overview of the public, political, legal, and medical debates on physician-assisted dying in The Netherlands, focusing on the role of psychiatry and mental illness. The number of in iduals with chronic mental illness requesting PAD has been relatively small (although the number can be expected to increase because of the activities of various civic organizations advocating the right to die) and Dutch psychiatrists have been extremely reluctant to respond to such requests. Nevertheless, mental conditions have been central to the public debate on PAD by helping to define the nature and limits of current legislation and professional practice. Although a few Dutch psychiatrists have c aigned to increase the involvement of psychiatrists and many support PAD in principle, the majority has been hesitant to engage in PAD despite increasing public pressure.
Nurturing Indonesia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 09-08-2018
The Tunisian Campaign, War Neuroses, and the Reorientation of American Psychiatry During World War II
Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 22-11-2011
Waking up to shell shock: psychiatry in the US military during World War II
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2006
DOI: 10.1016/J.ENDEAVOUR.2006.10.002
Abstract: During World War I, military officers encountered a new and puzzling phenomenon: soldiers emerged from the trenches stuttering, crying, trembling and at times were even paralysed and blind. Those in charge were convinced these soldiers were cowards or malingerers who deserved stern discipline or to be court-martialled. A number of physicians, by contrast, initially assumed that these alarming symptoms resulted from close exposure to explosions and called it shell shock. Later, they realized that it was a psychological reaction and came up with psychotherapeutic treatments. But it was only in World War II that military psychiatrists, particularly those in the USA, began to implement treatment methods for this phenomenon in a systematic way. Their thinking and the treatments they devised had significant consequences for the future of American psychiatry, which in turn influenced the development of psychiatry and military psychiatry world-wide.
Commentary: The Chelmsford scandal - reflection on physicians doing wrong
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-05-2013
The Mestizos of Kisar: An insular racial laboratory in the Malay Archipelago
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 10-2018
DOI: 10.1017/S0022463418000358
Abstract: In the 1920s and 1930s, the Mestizos of Kisar, a dry, almost barren island in the Dutch East Indies off the coast of East Timor, were a model for the study of race mixing or human hybridity. Discovered in the late nineteenth century, these ‘anomalous blondes’ of Dutch and Kisarese ancestry became subjects of intense scrutiny by physical anthropologists. As a German specialist in tropical medicine in search of a convenient empire after 1918, Ernst Rodenwaldt favourably evaluated the physique and mentality of the isolated, fair Mestizos in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Back in Germany in the 1930s, as professor of hygiene at Heidelberg, his views on race hardened to accord with Nazi doctrine. Yet after the war, Rodenwaldt successfully cited his earlier appreciation of mixed-race peoples in the eastern Malay Archipelago as grounds for rehabilitation. Once a celebrated case study in human hybridity, the Mestizos of Kisar were erased from anthropological discussion in the 1950s, when race mixing ceased to be a biological issue and became instead a sociological interest. Still, Rodenwaldt's work continues to exert some limited influence in the eastern parts of the archipelago and among the Kisarese diaspora, indicating the penetrance and resilience of colonial racialisation projects.
Shell Shock and the Australians
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-01-2008
The Totem Vanishes, the Hordes Revolt
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 2011
Psychological knowledge in a colonial context: Theories on the nature of the native mind in the former Dutch East Indies.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.1037/1093-4510.10.2.111
Abstract: This article analyzes the views of 3 Dutch physicians working in the former Dutch East Indies during the first part of the 20th century. These physicians based ideas about the nature of the normal indigenous psyche on both their analysis of Indonesian in iduals suffering from mental illness and on casual observations that represented widely shared cultural stereotypes. On that basis, they advocated a psychological colonial policy, which was to be based on a scientific understanding of the psyche of the Indonesian people. Using these ideas, they advocated political repression, justified inequality and racism, and limited educational opportunities for Indonesians. Representatives of the Indonesian nationalist movement vigorously protested against these ideas.
Quarantine in the Dutch East Indies
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Date: 2017
The development of psychiatry in Indonesia: From colonial to modern times
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1080/09540260600775421
Abstract: During the colonial period, mental health care policy in the Dutch East Indies was centred on the mental hospital, which provided custodial care. In 1949, independent Indonesia inherited four very large mental hospitals, about 10 acute-care clinics in the major cities, and an agricultural colony. During the 1950s, mental hospital care remained largely custodial. In 1966, the Directorate of Mental Health adopted the three-fold principles of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation as the foundation of a comprehensive mental health care system. During the 1970s and 1980s, the number of mental hospitals in Indonesia doubled and a variety of treatment methods were introduced. Special attention was given to the care provided by dukuns, or indigenous healers.
“Beyond the Clinical Frontiers”: The American Mental Hygiene Movement, 1910–1945
Publisher: Boydell and Brewer Limited
Date: 2010
Between the Laboratory, the School, and the Community: The Psychology of Human Development, Toronto, 1916-1956
Publisher: Canadian Periodical for Community Studies
Date: 09-2000
Abstract: In the twentieth century, Canadian psychologists have been involved with the educational system and the community at several points in time. In this article, the psychology of human development as developed at the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto from 1916 to 1956 is investigated. In a variety of projects, the mental health of children was investigated in educational settings while measures were designed and tested to prevent maladjustment and to promote mental health. Initially, research and intervention aimed at adjusting school children to the educational setting. Later, a critical perspective on social institutions and Canadian society was articulated.
Towards trans-cultural histories of psychotherapies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
Deinstitutionalisation and mental health activism in Australia: emerging voices of individuals with lived experience of severe mental distress, 1975–1985
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2022
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