Hungarian Psychiatry, Society and Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century

Emese Lafferton is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Central European University, Budapest/Vienna. She has published a range of articles and book chapters in English on various aspects of the history of psychiatry, medicine and racial sciences in the long nineteenth century. In addition, she has edited several books and thematic journal issues.

1. Introduction.- 2. Histories of Psychiatry and the Hungarian Model.- 3. The Bourgeois Family World of the Private Asylum: The Schwartzer Enterprise from 1850.- 4. The Kingdom in Miniature: Public Mental Asylums from the 1860s.- 5. The University Clinic and The Birth of Biological Psychiatry: Academic Research, Teaching and Therapy from the 1880s.- 6. Fragmenting Institutional Landscape: Alternatives of Specialised Institutions, Colonies and Family Care on the Turn of the Century.- 7. Asylum Statistics and The Psycho-Social Reality of the Hungarian Kingdom.- 8. Invading the Public and the Private: The Hygiene of Everyday Life, Shell-shock and the Politics of Turn-of-the-Century Psychiatric Expertise.- 9. Conclusion.

"The volume under review here addresses several interrelated and less-developed dimensions of histoficization: the cfitical history of psychiatry, the inception of public health in East Central Europe, and the interrelation of welfare policy and nation-building. Choosing the nineteenth century as a timeline to frame her histofical reconstruction, Emese L afferton succeeds in interconnecting public health and psychiatry ... ." (Victoria Schmidt, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Vol. 72 (4), 2023)

“The volume under review here addresses several interrelated and less-developed dimensions of histoficization: the cfitical history of psychiatry, the inception of public health in East Central Europe, and the interrelation of welfare policy and nation-building. Choosing the nineteenth century as a timeline to frame her histofical reconstruction, Emese L afferton succeeds in interconnecting public health and psychiatry … .” (Victoria Schmidt, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Vol. 72 (4), 2023)