Συγγραφέας
Κριτσωτάκη Δέσπω
Τίτλος
Gender and Expertise in the Mixed Economy of Mental Welfare in Greece: The Case of the Society of Social Psychiatry and Mental Health (1980s)
Περιοδικό
Historein: A review of the past and other stories
Τεύχος
21(2)
Έτος
2024
Σύνδεσμος
https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.32108
Περίληψη (Συγγραφέα)
The late 1970s and the 1980s were a time of political and social change in Greece, following the collapse of the seven-year military dictatorship, as well as a time of rupture in mental healthcare: new approaches were being developed, including those implemented by the Society of Social Psychiatry and Mental Health, a voluntary, nonprofit scientific association, founded in 1981 (officially in 1986). This article places the initiatives undertaken by the society within the international context of postwar mental healthcare, and within the national postdictatorship framework. It uses the analytical concept of the “mixed economy of welfare”, demonstrating that the society’s work was based on the synergy between the private and the public. Furthermore, the article discusses how concepts of gender were embedded in and shaped by the work of the society in the 1980s, arguing that the society reproduced the traditional gender hierarchies of the mental health field while reworking the hierarchies within its personnel – psychiatrists and other professionals, experts and nonexperts, and, by extension, to some degree at least, men and women mental healthcare providers.
Λέξεις-Κλειδιά (Συγγραφέα)
mental healthcare, Greece, 20th century, welfare, psychiatry
Ετικέτες
Πατριαρχία, Κοινωνική καταπίεση – περιορισμοί, Βιοπολιτική – υγεία
Επιστημονικό Πεδίο
Ιστορία
Παρατηρήσεις
Ειδικό Τεύχος “Gendering the Mixed Economies of Welfare: Ruptures and Trajectories in Postwar Europe”. Επιμέλεια: Έφη Αβδελά, Δήμητρα Λαμπροπούλου.
Βιβλιογραφική Αναφορά
Kritsotaki, D. (2024). Gender and Expertise in the Mixed Economy of Mental Welfare in Greece: The Case of the Society of Social Psychiatry and Mental Health (1980s). Historein: A review of the past and other stories, 21(2); https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.32108