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URL:https://murmitoyen.com/events/vanille/udem/detail/154128
LOCATION:Université de Montréal - Carrefour des arts et des sciences\, 31
 50\, rue Jean-Brillant \, Montréal\, QC\, Canada\, H3T 1N8
SUMMARY:Labor as Therapy: Agricultural Colonies and the Re-education of the
  'Insane' in French Indochina 
DESCRIPTION:Conférence prononcée par Claire Edington\, doctorante à Colu
 mbia University (USA)\, dans le cadre de la série « Post-Colonial Perspe
 ctives in the History of Medicine » co-organisée par le Professeur David
  Wright\, (Institute for Health and Social Policy\, McGill University) et 
 Laurence Monnais (Département d'histoire de l'Université de Montréal)R
 ésuméStrategies for the rehabilitation of the mentally ill in French Ind
 ochina were founded on beliefs in the therapeutic value of labor and the c
 onstruction of large agricultural colonies adjacent to asylum grounds. Cha
 mpioned by colonial experts who drew on a rich psychiatric discourse in th
 e metropole about the virtues of patient employment\, the ‘colonies agri
 coles’ seemed to offer a modern conception of mental health care that pr
 omised not only 'cerebral hygiene' and discipline through physical labor b
 ut also\, in simulating the appearance of freedom\, a kind of moral re-edu
 cation. Drawing on annual asylum reports spanning the interwar years\, I w
 ill discuss the ways in which colonial psychiatrists framed the therapeuti
 c and economic imperatives for labor\, and how they came to articulate a v
 ision of psychiatric rehabilitation which blurred the distinction between 
 patients and laborers\, between institutional order and the organization o
 f social life beyond the asylum. Aucune réservation - Entrée libre
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