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Shock Therapies as Intensification of the War against Madness in Hamburg, Germany: 1930--1943 (2013)

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Volume: 29, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 161-184

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German psychiatric practice between 1930 and 1945 was characterized by the interplay of different technologies that aimed to influence the conduct of the patient. Nurses, as the delegated representatives of the psychiatrists' power, were strategically positioned to influence patient behaviour using a broad range of disciplinary measures. An in-depth qualitative analysis of a medical record from a Hamburg asylum highlights the different shock treatments used on the patient, demonstrating that they were used randomly and primarily as a means of discipline for bad behaviour, sometimes leading to patient deaths. The article connects the results of the analysis with the international discussions among psychiatrists on how shock therapies were presumed to operate. La pratique de la psychiatrie en Allemagne entre 1930 et 1945 tait caractérisée par l'usage de différentes technologies visant à infléchir la conduite des patients. Les infirmières, à titre de représentantes de l'autorité du psychiatry, étaient en position d'influencer le comportement du patient à l'aide d'une large diversité de mesures disciplinaires. Une analyse qualitative approfondie d'un dossier médical trouvé dans un asile de Hambourg montre que différents traitements de choc ont été utilisés sur le patient, au hasard et surtout en tant qu'outils disciplinaires lorsqu'en présence de mauvais comportments. Parfois, ces traitements ont causé des décès. L'article s'inscrit dans les débats internationaux entre psychiatres concernant la façon dont les thérapies de choc étaient censées agir.

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