Making and Mapping Psy Sciences in East and Southeast Asia

Wu, Harry Yi-Jui; Wang, Wen Ji

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“…Postcolonial scholars often refer to these spaces of negotiation as ''contact zones'' and the forms of knowledge they produced as by turns hybrid, contingent, unstable, and situated. The point is to decolonize narratives of scientific progress and Western modernity, to take seriously subaltern forms of knowledge, and to lay bare the power relationships which make labels like ''modern'' or ''abnormal'' seem natural and inevitable in the first instance (Anderson 2014, Chiang 2015, Hashimoto 2013, Pols 2007, Wu 2016.…”

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“…Much like the 1937 meeting, this new paradigm emphasized the importance of intersectoral, international collaboration as the basis for expanding epidemiological research on both local and global scales. Harry Wu nevertheless describes this project as an ''idealistic effort,'' one which ''sought to conform to the central dogma of the WHO, which envisioned health as a basic human right of all 'world citizens' before this ideal was absorbed into global developmentalism'' (Wu 2016). And yet, while mental health was soon marginalized as a priority within the WHO, efforts by psychiatric and development experts alike to incorporate mental health as a component of primary care gained traction well before Alma Ata.…”

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The Most Social of Maladies: Re-Thinking the History of Psychiatry From the Edges of Empire

Edington

2021

Cult Med Psychiatry

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This paper argues that the colonial experience was never just “out there” but was a constitutive feature of the global development of psychiatry and, indeed, of social medicine itself. I show how regional knowledge about psychiatry, produced in scientific exchanges across colonial Southeast Asia over four decades and culminating with the 1937 Bandung Conference, became part of new international approaches to health care in rural areas, and later, in developing nations. In particular, I discuss how the embrace of the agricultural colony as a solution to the problem of asylum overcrowding occurred at the same moment that colonial public health experts and officials were moving away from expensive, technocratic fixes to address indigenous health needs. Yet in the search for alternatives to institutionalized care, including forms of family and community support, colonial psychiatrists were increasingly drawn into unpredictable and unwieldy networks of care and economy. Drawing on research from Vietnam, this paper decenters the asylum so as to recast the history of colonial and postcolonial psychiatry as integral to the history of social medicine and global health. The paper then returns to Bandung in 1955, the site of another famous meeting in the history of Third World solidarity, to consider how the embrace of the “Bandung spirit” may provide new avenues for decolonizing the history of colonial and postcolonial psychiatry.

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The Most Social of Maladies: Re-Thinking the History of Psychiatry From the Edges of Empire

Edington

2021

Cult Med Psychiatry

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“…Los trabajos presentados en los volúmenes editados por Blowers y Turtle (1987) y Carr y Schumaker (1996) se convierten en muestras de estudios pioneros que se han encargado de establecer las implicaciones que tiene la expansión de la psicología alrededor del mundo. Con las transformaciones que han ocurrido con el desarrollo de la "nueva" historia de la psicología (Brock, 2017), las propuestas conceptuales formuladas dentro de los estudios postcoloniales (Mahone & Vaughan, 2007) y con el advenimiento de la psicología crítica y los estudios sociales de la ciencia (Jaraba-Barrios & Mora-Gámez, 2010), ha sido posible empezar a examinar de manera distinta la constante expansión que ha tenido el conocimiento psicológico desde los países del Atlántico norte hacia el resto de Europa, América Latina, África y Asia (Brock, 2006;Lindtrum, 2016;Mahone & Vaughan, 2007;Wu & Wang, 2016). Al considerar el surgimiento y la diseminación de la psicología, los estudios en esta línea se apartan de visiones que suponen que las ideas psicológicas se dispersan alrededor del mundo gracias a la garantía de su cientificidad.…”

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Geopolíticas del Conocimiento Psicológico y Riesgos Psicosociales: Reproduciendo la Subordinación por Medio de las Tesis de Grado y Postgrado

Pulido-Martínez

Urbina-Barón

2019

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En este artículo se presentan los resultados de un estudio que indagó por las relaciones geopolíticas de la psicología. Se examinaron 108 tesis de pregrado y postgrado, realizadas en el área de riesgos psicosociales en 7 de las principales universidades de Bogotá, Colombia, entre 1991 y 2014. Se analizaron los siguientes aspectos: los años de presentación de las tesis, la institución académica que las acogió, el programa específico al que estaban vinculadas, el título asignado a la investigación y el diseño utilizado. También se establecieron las referencias consultadas, el idioma en el cual estas se habían publicado y el tipo de autoría que estas presentaban: nacional, internacional, investigadores particulares e instituciones reguladoras del trabajo. Los resultados señalan los canales a través de los cuales circula el conocimiento psicológico sobre los riesgos psicosociales, el desvanecimiento de las fronteras disciplinares de la psicología, así como la emulación que ocurre en la construcción local de la psicología y su consecuente subordinación a las redes internacionales del conocimiento.

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“…and practices of the "psy sciences" have circulated through transnational networks (Ernst & Mueller, 2010;Wu & Wang, 2016). Psychotherapy, as an inherently verbal, flexible, and adaptable technique that necessarily reflects local cultural understandings, has received attention as well (Pols, 2018; see the following special issues: History of Psychology, Vol.…”

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Psychology and psychiatry in the global world: Historical perspectives.

Pols

2019

History of Psychology

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During the past several decades, historians of science, technology, and medicine have started to investigate developments in the global world, primarily focusing on the world outside Europe and North America. Historians of early modern science have analyzed the intimate connections between, on the one hand, exploration, colonialism, and imperialism and, on the other, the scientific revolution in Europe. Scientific expeditions in Asia, Africa, and the Americas not only required significant local assistance but incorporated local techniques and insights as well (Roberts, 2009;Schaffer, Roberts, Raj, & Delbourgo, 2010). Botanical and medical research always relied on local intermediaries; as a consequence, local wisdom ended up in scientific treatises unacknowledged (Cook, 2007;Grove, 1995;Schiebinger, 2004;Schiebinger & Swan, 2004). Historians of science have started to investigate science from a global perspective, analyzing how science has been shaped through various alliances, trade connections, global political arrangements, and confrontations on a global scale (Secord, 2010;Sivasundaram, 2010). Today, historians of modern science argue that scientific research in Singapore, Japan, and China rivals that conducted in the Western world and can no longer be viewed as derivative or secondary (see, e.g., Clancey, Graham, Bishop, & Fischer, 2013;Waldby, 2009; Wittner & Brown, 2016). Advocates of new approaches to the history of early modern science and those focusing on modern science have argued that research should focus on the circulation of knowledge, technologies, pharmaceutical preparations, instruments, techniques, and theories in the global world and relinquish distinctions between metropolis and periphery, East and West, and modern and traditional (Anderson, 2002;Seth, 2017).Over the past three decades, historians of psychiatry have paid ample attention to the history of asylum care, mental hospitals, and psychiatric theories outside the Western world (see, e.

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Making and Mapping Psy Sciences in East and Southeast Asia

Cited by 9 publications

References 41 publications

The Most Social of Maladies: Re-Thinking the History of Psychiatry From the Edges of Empire

The Most Social of Maladies: Re-Thinking the History of Psychiatry From the Edges of Empire

Geopolíticas del Conocimiento Psicológico y Riesgos Psicosociales: Reproduciendo la Subordinación por Medio de las Tesis de Grado y Postgrado

Psychology and psychiatry in the global world: Historical perspectives.

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