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It reviews scholarship that reconsiders Western psychiatry’s development, critiques debates about confinement and professional power, and highlights how colonial medical authority enabled returns to traditional practices through alliances with colonial governance.",{"@graph":63,"@context":118},[64,80,101],{"@type":65,"itemListElement":66},"BreadcrumbList",[67,71,74,77],{"item":68,"name":69,"@type":70,"position":9},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":72,"name":10,"@type":70,"position":73},"https://docshare.wps.com/template/",2,{"item":75,"name":51,"@type":70,"position":76},"https://docshare.wps.com/template/general/",3,{"item":78,"name":59,"@type":70,"position":79},"https://docshare.wps.com/template/madness-and-colonization-psychiatry-in-the-british-and-french-empires-1800-1962-overview/177589/",4,{"url":78,"name":59,"@type":81,"image":82,"author":87,"headline":59,"publisher":90,"fileFormat":93,"inLanguage":57,"description":61,"dateModified":94,"datePublished":95,"encodingFormat":93,"isAccessibleForFree":96,"interactionStatistic":97},"DigitalDocument",{"url":83,"@type":84,"width":85,"height":86},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/madness-and-colonization-psychiatry-in-the-british-and-french-empires-1800-1962-overview/177589.png","ImageObject",442,249,{"name":88,"@type":89},"River Wang","Person",{"url":68,"name":91,"@type":92},"DocShare","Organization","application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document","2026-09-28","2026-09-02",true,{"@type":98,"interactionType":99,"userInteractionCount":79},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":100},"ViewAction",{"@type":102,"mainEntity":103},"FAQPage",[104,110,114],{"name":105,"@type":106,"acceptedAnswer":107},"What does the document argue is the significance of colonial psychiatry for historical research?","Question",{"text":108,"@type":109},"It argues that colonial psychiatry connects Foucauldian and postcolonial perspectives by showing how mental-health knowledge and institutions worked within European colonial power structures across time and regions.","Answer",{"name":111,"@type":106,"acceptedAnswer":112},"How does the document describe scholarship that revises the history of Western psychiatry?",{"text":113,"@type":109},"It outlines studies that examine psychiatry’s social, political, technological, and professional dimensions and debates that challenge or refine Foucault’s claims about confinement and the separation between reason and madness.",{"name":115,"@type":106,"acceptedAnswer":116},"Why do histories of colonial psychiatry disrupt Eurocentric accounts, according to the text?",{"text":117,"@type":109},"Because they clarify how Western medicine’s alliance with colonial authority encouraged practices associated with traditional medicine in Asian and African colonies, adding the missing role of contact and exchange.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":78,"og:type":120,"og:title":59,"og:site_name":91,"og:description":61},"article",{"robots":122,"canonical":78},"index,follow",{"doc_id":124,"site_id":56},177589,1788328463,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":127},{"doc_id":124,"user_id":128,"nickname":88,"user_avatar":129,"doc_module":9,"category_id":50,"category_name":51,"doc_title":59,"doc_description":61,"doc_content":130,"file_id":131,"file_url":132,"file_type":133,"file_size":134,"view_count":79,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":9,"is_downloadable":9,"audit_status":9,"page_count":135,"language":136,"language_code":57,"site_id":56,"html_lang":57,"table_of_contents":137,"faqs":138,"seo_title":139,"seo_description":61,"update_tm":125,"read_time":140},1099514067438,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/avatar/100002539ee87300030?x-image-process=image/resize,m_fixed,w_180,h_180&k=1780474512215547542","Madness and Colonization: Psychiatry in the British and French Empires, 1800-1962\nRichard Keller \u000bWashington University in St. Louis\nA recent intersection of two historiographical strains points to a promising new direction for social and cultural history. Given the pervasive influence of Michel Foucault and Edward Said on much historical research since the 1970s, it is no surprise that several historians have drawn their attention to a topic that brings some of Foucault's and Said's most provocative contributions together: the problem of madness and its treatment in European colonies. \u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://140.234.18.9:8080/EPSessionID=601389f41cc7a85483d490c9d86495fb/EPHost=muse.jhu.edu/EPPath/journals/journal_of_social_history/v035/35.2keller.html\" \\l \"FOOT1\" \u00141\u0015 Scholars in British and French colonial history have in the last decade produced important works that revise our understanding of both colonialism and the social history of medicine through their interrogations of colonial psychiatry--that is, the establishment, administration, and practice of mental health care for both European and indigenous populations in Asian and African possessions from the early nineteenth century to decolonization. This literature responds not only to Foucault and Said, but also connects to influential works in post-colonial studies that investigate the psychology of colonial domination and complicate the racial divide that informed colonial contact.\nStudies of colonial psychiatry have the capacity to engage with at least four distinct historiographies. First, this research decenters the history of Western psychiatry, a field that has grown substantially since the 1961 publication of Foucault's groundbreaking thesis, Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique. Scholars have grappled with this dimension of medical history by examining social, political, technological, and professional aspects of psychiatry since the early modern era, encouraging a polemical debate over questions of progress, power, and professional interest. Foucault's contentions that psychiatric power responded to a wider scientific episteme in the modern era by delineating artificial barriers between reason and madness to protect the former from the latter's incipient threats has sparked wide-ranging criticism. Some argue that Foucault ignores historical truth when he describes a \"Great Confinement\" beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, as only a tiny fraction of the French population ever experienced psychiatric incarceration. \u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://140.234.18.9:8080/EPSessionID=601389f41cc7a85483d490c9d86495fb/EPHost=muse.jhu.edu/EPPath/journals/journal_of_social_history/v035/35.2keller.html\" \\l \"FOOT2\" \u00142\u0015 Others agree that Foucault plays fast and loose with the historical record, but agree with his emphasis on the social implications of psychiatric confinement and treatment. \u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://140.234.18.9:8080/EPSessionID=601389f41cc7a85483d490c9d86495fb/EPHost=muse.jhu.edu/EPPath/journals/journal_of_social_history/v035/35.2keller.html\" \\l \"FOOT3\" \u00143\u0015 Regardless of the positions that post-Foucauldian historians have taken, however, the result is a spate of correctives that alternately test and complement Foucault's analysis through interrogations of psychiatric professionalization, the connections between psychiatry and politics, the importance of gender and race for mental health discourses, and the ways that medical technologies have combined with social policies to enhance psychiatry's coercive power in the twentieth century. \u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://140.234.18.9:8080/EPSessionID=601389f41cc7a85483d490c9d86495fb/EPHost=muse.jhu.edu/EPPath/journals/journal_of_social_history/v035/35.2keller.html\" \\l \"FOOT4\" \u00144\u0015 But as good as many of these works are, they focus exclusively on Western developments, and present a narrative of reform, professionalization, and technological innovation relevant to Europe and America. Studies in ethnopsychiatry offset the discourse of Western psy","cbCaisv0Aop8y73d","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisv0Aop8y73d","docx",90290,25,"English","# Colonial psychiatry as an intersection of historiographies\n## Decentering Western psychiatry\n## Debates over psychiatric power and confinement\n## From Eurocentric narratives to contact and exchange\n# Colonial psychiatry, Orientalism, and knowledge-power","[{\"question\":\"What does the document argue is the significance of colonial psychiatry for historical research?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that colonial psychiatry connects Foucauldian and postcolonial perspectives by showing how mental-health knowledge and institutions worked within European colonial power structures across time and regions.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the document describe scholarship that revises the history of Western psychiatry?\",\"answer\":\"It outlines studies that examine psychiatry’s social, political, technological, and professional dimensions and debates that challenge or refine Foucault’s claims about confinement and the separation between reason and madness.\"},{\"question\":\"Why do histories of colonial psychiatry disrupt Eurocentric accounts, according to the text?\",\"answer\":\"Because they clarify how Western medicine’s alliance with colonial authority encouraged practices associated with traditional medicine in Asian and African colonies, adding the missing role of contact and exchange.\"}]","Madness and Colonization - Psychiatry in the British and French Empires, 1800-1962 - Overview | DOCX",9]