Organisers: Volker Hess (Berlin/Charité) and Benoît Majerus (ULB)

30 May
chairmanship: Kenneth Bertrams

14.00 - 14.45: Greg Eghigian
Deinstitutionalizing the History of Contemporary Psychiatry
Discussant: Volker Hess

14.45 - 15.30: John Burnham
Understanding globalization in psychiatryin the late twentieth century: profiles of international communication
Discussant: Benoît Majerus

15.30 - 16.00: pause

16.00 - 16.45: Catherine Fussinger
Between reformers and antipsychiatry, what kind of historical analyse for the “therapeutic community”?
Discussant: Greg Eghigian

16.45 - 17.30: Nicolas Henckes
The reform of psychiatric hospitals as a way of reading the history of psychiatry in the 20th century
Discussant: John Burnham

31 May
chairmanship: Jean-Michel Chaumont
9.00 - 9.45: Volker Hess
The case GDR. Do we need a comparative approach to the historiography of psychochemicals?
Discussant: Kathrin Franke

9.45 - 10.30: Séverine Massat-Bourrat
Is the first neuroleptic at the origin of a liberation of the 'madman' or of a social dismissal?
Discussant: Viola Balz

10.30 – 11.00: pause

11.00 - 11.45: Mical Raz
Between the Ego and the Ice-pick: Re-examining the Boundaries between Psychoanalysis and Psychosurgery (USA, 1935-1965)
Discussant: Marietta Meier

11.45 - 12.30: Emilie Courtin
The architecture of change : rethinking the deinstitutionalisation process in France and England
Discussant: Jean-Christophe Coffin

12.30 – 14.00: lunch

chairmanship: Pieter Lagrou
14.00 - 14.45: Cornelia Brink
On the threshold of psychiatry. A social history of admission, discharge anf continuing stay in German Asylums, 1860-198
Discussant: Eric Engstrom

14.45 - 15.30: Isabelle von Bueltzingsloewen
At the crossroads : psychiatry and psychiatric care in France (1945-1960)
Discussant: Claude-Olivier Doron

15.30 - 16.00: pause
16.00 - 17.00: general discussion

Université libre de Bruxelles – Institut d’Etudes Européennes (room S4)