Madness and Society in the Modern Age

UCIL30332 Madness and Society in the Modern Age 20 Semester 2 Undergraduate Level 3 Carsten Timmermann Unit coordinator Centre for History of Science, Technology & Medici 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Last part of a Bachelors ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 10.0 <div>This unit introduces you to the social, cultural, intellectual and institutional history of madness, psychiatry and mental health. Through lectures, interactive workshops and reading a combination of primary sources and secondary analyses, you will gain an appreciation of:<ul dir="ltr"> <li>How madness has been understood, by experts and by everyday people</li> <li>How madness has been managed, socially and institutionally</li> <li>How science, medicine, and culture interact in shaping responses to madness</li></ul>Our focus is primarily on the period 1780 to the present, and primarily on the UK, but with some discussion of Western Europe and North America.</div>  <div>This unit introduces you to the social, cultural, intellectual and institutional history of madness, psychiatry and mental health. Through lectures, interactive workshops and reading a combination of primary sources and secondary analyses, you will gain an appreciation of:<ul dir="ltr"> <li>How madness has been understood, by experts and by everyday people</li> <li>How madness has been managed, socially and institutionally</li> <li>How science, medicine, and culture interact in shaping responses to madness</li></ul>Our focus is primarily on the period 1780 to the present, and primarily on the UK, but with some discussion of Western Europe and North America.</div>  <div>This unit explores the history of madness and psychiatry from the late eighteenth century to the present. It examines how insanity has been understood, treated, and represented within larger social, cultural, and intellectual frameworks. It also relates changing ideas and approaches to mental illness, health, and functioning to larger questions in the history of the medical and biological sciences.</div>  <div>Students will be able to:<ul><li class="pf1">Identify historical approaches to medical thinking and practice.</li><li class="pf1">Describe how approaches to madness changed from 1780 onwards, including changing definitions of both mental health and insanity.</li><li class="pf1">Understand how the history of mental illness has shaped today's approaches to mental health.</li><li class="pf1">Analyse historians' arguments, through discussion of secondary literature and exploration of primary sources and historical data.</li><li class="pf1">Recognise and understand key historiographical approaches in the history of madness and mental health.</li><li class="pf1">Contribute to informed group discussions and debate, including presenting your own arguments effectively.</li><li class="pf1">Write a short, structured text combining a range of viewpoints.</li><li class="pf1">Produce a blog post or podcast discussing the impact of a topic in the history of madness on the modern world.</li><li class="pf1">Research and write a review essay incorporating both primary sources and secondary literature, integrating historical medical and social contexts.</li></ul></div>  Students should/will be able to:<ul><li class="pf1">Describe how approaches to madness changed from 1780 onwards, including changing definitions of both mental health and insanity.</li><li class="pf1">Understand how the history of mental illness has shaped today's approaches to mental health.</li><li class="pf1">Recognise and understand key historiographical approaches in the history of madness and mental health.</li><li class="pf1">Productively engage with the historiography and history of mental illness in a research essay.</li></ul> Students should/will be able to:<ul><li class="pf1">Identify historical approaches to medical thinking and practice.</li><li class="pf1">Analyse historians' arguments, through discussion of secondary literature and exploration of primary sources and historical data.</li><li class="pf1">Construct and sustain a substantial historical argument in a research essay.</li></ul> Students should/will be able to:<ul><li class="pf1">Independently research new topics by identifying and working with evidence from various sources (including library, electronic and online resources).</li><li class="pf1">Exercise persuasiveness in oral and written communication.</li><li class="pf1">Demonstrate project management skills including time and task management, clear communication, and delivery of work to deadlines.</li></ul> Analytical skills Students will develop their capacity to think critically, (knowledgeably, rigorously, confidently, and reflectively). Group/team working Students will develop their ability to work productively in small and large groups on topics that may prove contentious. Innovation/creativity Students will be encouraged to independently shape their learning by focussing on topics of personal interest and relating their work to wider issues. Project management Students will gain experience managing their time, completing work to deadlines and meeting goals. Oral communication Students will develop their spoken communication skills in weekly group work. Research Students will develop skills including finding and interpreting evidence and arguments from varied sources; organising findings and presenting in a logical way. Written communication Students will enhance their written communication skills by producing academic (or creative) essays and blog posts. <div>Content may vary from year to year in response to contemporary events and student interest, but will typically address the following broad topics:<ul><li>The Birth of the Asylum</li><li>The Expansion of the Asylum</li><li>Theorising Insanity: Minds and Bodies</li><li>Gender, Madness and Society</li><li>Race, Madness and Colonial Psychiatry</li><li>Freud, Psychoanalysis and Culture</li><li>Shell Shock, Psychiatry and War</li><li>The Normal and the Difficult Child</li><li>The Psychiatrisation of Everyday Life</li></ul></div> The course meets twice a week, for a lecture delivered by the course convenor, and a seminar led by a Graduate Teaching Assistant. Each lecture will introduce a topic and set out the key information and historiographical framework. Lecture slides will be available for download. The lectures will be delivered live on campus, but pre-recorded lectures will also be available via the online Central Learning Environment. Live lectures will be recorded automatically, and the automatic recordings (whatever is showing on the screen plus audio) will be available shortly after the end of the lecture via the University Video Portal.Seminars will use secondary readings and primary source materials that build on the week’s lecture. All required reading will be made available online. Reading guides will also be available for most sessions, to guide your reading and give you additional background information and suggested resources as you prepare for seminar. Most seminar sessions involve small group discussion and collaboration. Additional optional materials will be available online, along with lists of further reading for in-depth study. Individual supervision sessions, especially but not exclusively for the research essay, can be booked with the unit convenor. 0 Other 100% Short Essay (Historically Informed Creative Writing): 25%Blog Post or Podcast: 25%Research Essay: 50% Oral feedback will be provided during face-to-face teaching activities and individual oral feedback will be available where students attend pre-booked meetings.Written feedback will be provided on all assessments and will include advice on improving future performance.Students will be encouraged throughout to feed in to course content and activities through oral or written feedback (e.g. padlets embedded in UoM online Central Learning Environment). Students will have the opportunity to shape future development of the course through the end of course unit survey. Y <ul><li class="pf0">Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.</li><li class="pf0">Scull, Andrew. Madness in Civilization: From the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. London: Thames & Hudson, 2015.</li><li class="pf0">Shorter, Edward. A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac. Chichester: Wiley, 1997.</li><li class="pf0">Zaretsky, Eli. Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis. New York: Vintage Books, 2005.</li></ul> Lectures 12 Seminars 12 0 176 <div style="clear:both;">Madness and Society is offered through the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine http://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/ </div>