Work

Psychiatric patients at work

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: In colonial Vietnam, mental asylums were designed as large agricultural colonies, where patients would work the land on the path to healing and eventual liberation. This article discusses the role of labor as a kind of therapy for asylum patients, and how French psychiatric experts were constantly drawn into broader networks of care and economy, thereby shifting attention from the asylum itself to the world beyond its walls.

Source: Terrain

DOI: 10.4000/terrain.23398

Author: Claire EDINGTON

Institutions: Cornell University, University of California San Diego, Columbia University

Language: English

Topic: Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4226094682

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