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in Doing psychiatry in postwar Europe
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Monika Ankele is a postdoctoral researcher at the Medical University of Vienna. She works on the history of psychiatry and its institutional cultures in the nineteenth and twentieth century, material cultures and medical humanities. Among her publications are: Monika Ankele and Benoît Majerus (eds), Material Cultures of Psychiatry (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2020); Monika Ankele, ‘From a patient's view: A sensual-perceptual approach to bed rest’, in Bettina Hitzer and Rob Boddice (eds), Feeling Dis/Ease: Experiencing Medicine and Illness in Modern History (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), pp. 237–54; Monika Ankele, Sophie Ledebur and Céline Kaiser (eds), Aufführen, Aufzeichnen, Anordnen: Wissenspraktiken in Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie (Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag, 2018).

Gábor Csikós is a senior lecturer at the András Pető Faculty of Semmelweis University and research fellow at the Institute of History of the ELKH Research Centre for the Humanities in Budapest. He is interested in rural history, socialist modernisation and the history of psychiatry. Among his publications are: Gábor Csikós, Gergely Krisztián Horváth and József Ö. Kovács (eds), The Sovietization of Rural Hungary, 1945–1980: Subjugation in the Name of Equality (London: Routledge, 2023); Gábor Csikós (ed.), Forrásvidékek: Visszaemlékezések a 20. századra (Budapest: ELKH – NEB, 2022).

Gundula Gahlen is a research associate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. She works on the military history of the eighteenth to twentieth century, the history of psychiatry and cultural history. Among her publications are: Gundula Gahlen, Nerven, Krieg und militärische Führung: Psychisch erkrankte Offiziere in Deutschland (1890–1939) (Frankfurt: Campus, 2022); Nikolas Funke, Gundula Gahlen and Ulrike Ludwig (eds), Krank vom Krieg: Umgangsweisen und kulturelle Deutungsmuster von der Antike bis in die Moderne (Frankfurt: Campus, 2020); Gundula Gahlen, Das bayerische Offizierskorps 1815–1866 (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2011).

Volker Hess is Chair of the Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at the Charité Medical School in Berlin and affiliated professor in the History Department of the Humboldt University. He works on the history of medicine, on the cultural history of psychiatry and madness, and on paper technologies and Aufschreibesysteme. Volker has been involved in various collaborative projects in recent years, including the DFG research group ‘Cultures of madness’ as well as the DFG research group ‘Normal#Verrückt’. In 2011 he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant as principal investigator of ‘How physicians know’, and in 2019 an ERC Synergy Grant for ‘Taming the European Leviathan’. His publications include Volker Hess, ‘Bookkeeping madness: Archives and filing between court and ward’, Rethinking History, 22:3 (2018), 302–35; Volker Hess, ‘A paper machine of clinical research in the early 20th century’, ISIS, 109:3 (2018), 473–93; Volker Hess and J. Andrew Mendelsohn, ‘Case and series: Medical knowledge and paper technology, 1600–1900’, History of Science, 48:3–4 (2010), 287–314.

Despo Kritsotaki is a researcher at the Modern Greek History Research Centre of the Academy of Athens. Her research focuses are the history of mental health and the mental health sciences, history of childhood and the family, and history of sexuality in the twentieth century. Among her publications are: Despo Kritsotaki, Mental Hygiene, Social Welfare and Psychiatric Reform in Post-War Greece: The Centre for Mental Health and Research, 1956–1978 (Athens: Pedio, 2016) (in Greek); Despo Kritsotaki, Vicky Long and Matthew Smith, Deinstitutionalisation and After: Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016); Despo Kritsotaki, ‘Changing psychiatry or changing society? The Motion for the Rights of the “Mentally Ill” in Greece, 1980–1990’, Journal for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 76:4 (2021), 440–61.

Benoît Majerus is professor of European history at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at the University Luxembourg. He mainly publishes on the history of World War I and II and on the history of psychiatry in the twentieth century. Among his recent publications are: Nicolas Henckes and Benoît Majerus, Maladies mentales et société (XIXe–XXIe siècles) (Paris: La Découverte, 2022); Joris Vandendriessche and Benoît Majerus (eds), Medical Histories of Belgium: New Narratives on Health, Care and Citizenship in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021); Monika Ankele and Benoît Majerus (eds), Material Cultures of Psychiatry (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2020).

Christina Malathouni is a senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool School of Architecture. Her main research areas are twentieth-century mental health architecture and twentieth-century architectural heritage. Among her publications are: Christina Malathouni, ‘In line with the modern conception of much mental illness: Architectural design contributions to psychiatric reforms in post-war Britain’, Architecture_MPS, 24:1 (2023), 1–21; Christina Malathouni, ‘Beyond the asylum and before the “care in the community” model: Exploring an overlooked early NHS mental health facility’, History of Psychiatry, 31:4 (2020), 455–69.

Marietta Meier is a full professor and research associate at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on the history of psychiatry, history of knowledge and history of emotions. Among her publications are: Marietta Meier, ‘Third person: Narrating dis-ease and knowledge in psychiatric case histories’, in Rob Boddice and Bettina Hitzer (eds), Feeling Dis-Ease: Experiencing Medicine and Illness in Modern History (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), pp. 103–20; Marietta Meier, Mario König and Magaly Tornay, Testfall Münsterlingen: Klinische Versuche in der Psychiatrie, 1940–1980 (Zurich: Chronos, 2019); Marietta Meier, Spannungsherde: Psychochirurgie nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2015).

David Niget is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Angers. His primary research topic is juvenile delinquency and youth culture from a gender perspective, expertise and child guidance, moral panics and risk. Among his publications are: David Niget, ‘Gender, agency, and sex: Postwar European youth and the generation gap’, in J. Marten (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023); David Niget, ‘Sciences du psychisme et citoyenneté dans les institutions de rééducation pour jeunes filles délinquantes en France et en Belgique au XXe siècle’, in M. Petitclerc, L. Bienvenue, D. Niget, M. Robert and C. Verbauwhede (eds), Question sociale et citoyenneté: La dimension politique des régulations sociales (XIXe–XXIe siècles) (Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2021); David Niget, ‘From criminal justice to the social clinic: The role of magistrates in the circulation of transnational models in the twentieth century’, in W. S. Bush and D. S. Tanenhaus (eds), Ages of Anxiety: Historical and Transnational Perspectives on Juvenile Justice (New York: New York University Press, 2018), pp. 15–38.

Katariina Parhi is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences at Tampere University. Her research areas are the social history of medicine, history of psychiatry, historical criminology and history of social control. Among her publications are: Heini Hakosalo, Katariina Parhi and Annukka Sailo (eds), Historical Explorations of Modern Epidemiology: Patterns, Populations and Pathologies (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023); Katariina Parhi, ‘No coming back to sick society: The emergence of new drug user segment in the Järvenpää Social Hospital in Finland, 1965–1975’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 76:4 (2021), 417–39.

Marianna Scarfone is an associate professor at the Department for the History of Medicine at Strasbourg University and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her research focuses on the history of Italian and French psychiatry, and their colonial developments, as well as the mental health/immigration nexus, with particular attention to social aspects. Material, visual and media issues accompany her research on mental health. Among her publications are: Marianna Scarfone, ‘Outpatient facilities, visiting nurses, and propaganda: Spaces, actors and tools of mental hygiene in interwar Italy’, Social History of Medicine (2023); Marianna Scarfone, ‘Psychosis of civilization: A colonial-situated diagnosis’, History of Psychiatry, 32:1 (2021), 52–68; Marianna Scarfone, ‘Lives in storage: Clothes and other personal effects as a way of recovering patients’ histories in a psychiatric hospital’, in Monika Ankele and Benoît Majerus (eds), Material Cultures of Psychiatry (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2020), pp. 314–45.

Florent Serina is a lecturer at the University of Lausanne and researcher at the Institut des Humanités en Médecine (CHUV). His research focuses on the history of the human sciences and social and cultural history of psy-sciences. Among his publications are: Florent Serina, C. G. Jung en France: Rencontres, passions et controverses (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2021); Florent Serina and Stéphane Gumpper (eds), Pierre Janet: Les Formes de la croyance (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2021); Florent Serina (ed.), C. G. Jung: Comptes rendus critiques de la psychologie francophone (Lausanne: Editions BHMS, 2020).

Marica Setaro is a research fellow at the Gerda Henkel Stiftung in Düsseldorf. Her main research areas are the history of psychiatry and the historical epistemology of scientific concepts. Among her publications are: Beatrice Biagioli, Lucilla Gigli and Marica Setaro (eds), Uno psichiatra umanista: Tra le carte e gli scritti di Agostino Pirella (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2022); Marica Setaro and Silvia Calamai (eds), Ci chiamavano matti: Voci dal manicomio (1968–1977), by A. M. Bruzzone (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2021); Matteo Vagelli and Marica Setaro (eds), ‘Introduction: Ian Hacking and the historical reason of the sciences’, Philosophical Inquiries, 9:1 (2021), 115–20.

Ketil Slagstad (MD) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. His research focuses include the history of clinical research, history of transgender medicine, history of HIV/AIDS and the history of psychiatry. Among his publications are: Ketil Slagstad, ‘Bureaucratizing medicine: Creating a gender identity clinic in the welfare state’, Isis, 113:3 (2022), 469–90; Ketil Slagstad, ‘The pasts, presents and futures of Aids, Norway (1983–1996)’, Social History of Medicine, 34:2 (2020), 417–44; Ketil Slagstad, ‘The political nature of sex: Transgender in the history of medicine’, New England Journal of Medicine, 384:11 (2021), 1070–4.

Henriette Voelker is a research associate at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Her research focuses on the history of the psy-sciences and patient history. Among her publications are: Henriette Voelker, ‘Fürsorge und Psychotherapie an der Charité: Berufspraxis im Wandel in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren’, in Ekkehardt Kumbier and Kathleen Hack (eds), Psychiatrie in der DDR III: Weitere Beiträge zur Geschichte (Berlin: be.bra, 2023), pp. 301–15; Henriette Voelker, ‘“Die ‘freischaffende’ Arbeitsweise des Psychologen zu beseitigen”: Politischer Auftrag und Eigenlogik psychologischer Praxis in der Schulpädagogik der DDR’, psychosozial, 45:169 (2022), 9–21.

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