15.12.2020; Vorlesung
Lecture: Childhood and Psychiatry in post-1945 Germany
Meeting ID: 951 9105 4467
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Abstract
The lecture deals with the experiences of traumatised children in Germany after the Second World War. Medical records reveal that many of the children who became mentally ill due to war and persecution ended up in psychiatry after 1945, often with discriminatory diagnoses. These medical attributions of "bollocks" or " psychopathy" were formative for the further life path of the children. Some children and their medical records will be presented as examples to illustrate their experiences and the treatment they received in the psychiatric clinics
Der Vortrag beschäftigt sich mit dem Schicksal traumatisierter Kinder nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in Deutschland. In Krankenakten wird deutlich, dass viele der Kinder, die die Erfahrungen von Krieg und Diktatur krank gemacht haben, mit teils diskriminierenden Diagnosen in der Psychiatrie landeten. Diese medizinischen Zuschreibungen von „Schwachsinn“ oder „ Psychopathie“ waren prägend für den weiteren Lebensweg der Kinder. Am Beispiel einiger Kinder werden deren Erfahrungen und die Behandlung in der Klinik deutlich gemacht.
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Silke Fehlemann is a postdoctoral researcher in DFG-Project about insults and mobilization in interwar period (part of SBF “Invectivity”. She is also Privatdozentin at the University of Düsseldorf. She is specialized in cultural and political history of the 19th and 20th century in Europe, especially in First World War and Weimar Republic. Her research interests include history of emotion, history of childhood and history of medicine and healthcare.