Memory, Anniversaries and Mental Health in International Historical Perspective

Rebecca Wynter is a historian at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has published widely on the histories of psychiatry, mental health, neurology, first response, and so-called ‘conversion therapy’. She is active in public history, working with museums, institutions and people to reveal the past. Jennifer Wallis is a Medical Humanities Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine at Imperial College London, UK. She has published widely on the nineteenth-century asylum and the history of medicine in the Victorian period. Rob Ellis is a Reader in History at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has published widely on the histories of mental ill-health and learning disability and has worked in partnership to co-produce projects that have emphasised their contemporary relevance.

1. Marking Time: Memory, Mental Health and Making Minds; Rebecca Wynter, Rob Ellis, and Jennifer Wallis.- Part I: Governance.- 2. Carrying on with 'Common-Sense':  Rebuffing reform in Bombay's Lunatic Asylums, 1894-1933; Sarah Pinto.- 3. The new socialist citizen and 'forgetting' authoritarianism: Psychiatry, psychoanalysis and revolution in socialist Yugoslavia; Ana Antic.- Part II: Practitioners.- 4. Appropriating Wilhelm Griesinger's Asylum Reform Legacy (1868-2018): Some Reflections on Historiographic Narratives of Failure; Eric J. Engstrom.- 5. Remodelling the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna: Memories, Museums, and Curatorial Considerations; Daniela Finzi and Monika Pessler.- Part III: Casebooks.- 6. Madness, Memory and Delusion in Later Nineteenth-Century Colonial Barbados; Leonard Smith.- 7. Gone But Not Forgotten: Acts of Remembrance in the Late-nineteenth and Early-twentieth Century Asylum; Katherine Rawling.- 8. The Institute for Imbecile Children: remembering the lives and experiences of the patients; Rory du Plessis.- Part III: Oral Histories.- 9. Surprise and Nostalgia: Staff Narrate the Closure of an American Psychiatric Hospital, Elizabeth Nelson, Emily Beckman; and Modupe Labode.- 10. An Exploration of the Function of Nostalgia in Oral Histories of Institutional Care; Verusca Calabria.- Part IV: Personal Recollections.- 11. Talking Personality: Reflections on Historical Words, Diagnoses, and My Own Experience; Barbara Norden.- 12. 'If your memory serves you well': Reflections on becoming a psychiatrist; Allan Beveridge.