Coordination Funds

精神病学的历史就是一部区分正常与疯狂的历史。然而，这种差异正在逐渐消失。一方面，随着精神病院的开放和囚犯的社会融合，疯狂正在成为日常常态；另一方面，中毒、压力或注意力缺陷等反应模式和行为被病态化。这种基本二分法的崩溃，使现存的精神病学历史叙述的解释能力再次受到质疑。这是拟建研究小组的出发点和基本假设：它并不试图追踪精神错乱概念的变化，而是关注在处理精神变异时正常与病理之间差异的淡化。参与FOR的项目的首要目标是动员迄今为止未被充分探索的精神病学趋势，作为当代历史的资源。这一目标将通过精神病学历史的先前地形的分散化来实现。要关注穿透既定主题的现象：1。包括精神病医生以外的其他专业团体的演员星座；2. 逻辑和空间，除了传统的制度和他们的传统替代品，包括经济和参与性的理性，从而揭示其他生态和艺术干预；3. 精神病学领域互动和谈判的方法和技巧，包括媒体的使用，沟通策略和挪用。通过这种精神病学历史的分散，FOR的目标不仅仅是对传统分类的明显侵蚀进行编目，而且尤其要概述与另类关系的变化历史，这挑战了现有的历史编纂。最后的目标是在当代人类学的模型上勾勒出精神病学的当代历史，使当前对正常/疯狂的解释方案能够适应历史分析。为了包括民族学/民族志、历史/社会学、文化和文学方法，研究小组由来自不同学科的学者组成。同时，它保持对医疗史的关注，以便在研究中纳入精神病学，心理学和社会工作的参考学科。

The history of psychiatry is a history of the difference between normality and madness. However, this difference is progressively eroding. On the one hand, with the opening of psychiatric institutions and the social integration of inmates, madness is becoming everyday normality; on the other hand, reaction patterns and behaviours such as intoxication, stress or attention deficit are pathologised. The collapse of this basic dichotomy calls the interpretative power of extant historical narratives of psychiatry back into question.This is the starting point and basic assumption of the proposed research group: It does not attempt to track changes in concepts of insanity, but focuses on the erosion of the difference between normal and pathological in dealing with psychic alterity. The overarching goal of the projects participating in the FOR is to mobilize hitherto underexplored tendencies in psychiatry as a resource for contemporary history.This goal will be achieved by a decentralisation of the previous topography of the history of psychiatry. Phenomena cutting through established themes shall come into focus: 1. Actor-constellations involving other professional groups than psychiatrists; 2. Logics and spaces that, besides the conventional institutions and their traditional alternatives, include economical and participatory rationalities, thus revealing other ecologies and artistic interventions; 3. Methodical approaches to practices and techniques of interaction and negotiation in the psychiatric field, including the use of media, strategies of communication and of appropriation. Through this decentring of the history of psychiatry, the FOR aims not merely at cataloguing the conspicuous erosion of traditional categories, but especially at outlining a history of change in the relations with alterity, which challenges the extant historiography. The final aim is to sketch a contemporary history of psychiatry on the model of an anthropology of the present, capable of making the present interpretative schemes of normality/madness amenable to historical analysis.In order to include ethnological/ethnographic, historical/sociological, cultural and literary approaches, the research group consists of scholars from different disciplines. At the same time, it keeps a focus on medical history in order to include the reference disciplines of psychiatry, psychology and social work in the research.