Article ID: CBB623646766

Building Psychiatric Expertise across Southeast Asia: Study Trips, Site Visits, and Therapeutic Labor in French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies, 1898–1937 (2016)

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This paper examines a series of research trips undertaken by French physicians in Indochina to the Dutch East Indies between 1898 and 1937 to study what they saw to be a successful model of a modern psychiatric service that had been developed there. Dutch experiments with forms of “open door” care and the use of patient labor as therapy, premised on earlier ideas of moral treatment, seemed to hold both therapeutic promise and the key to resolving pressing economic concerns faced by colonial psychiatric institutions. French physicians saw in neighboring Java fundamental ethnological and geographical similarities to Indochina, and Dutch successes in psychiatric assistance there raised the prospect of adapting practices the Dutch had developed to their own program in Indochina throughout the interwar years.

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Authors & Contributors
Pols, Hans
Malarney, Shaun Kingsley
Adam, Luthfi
Cherry, Haydon
Nguyen Thi Hoai Phuong
Wingerden, Pieter van
Concepts
Colonialism
France, colonies
Netherlands, colonies
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Medicine
Travel; exploration
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
Places
East Indies
Indochina
Vietnam
West Africa
Netherlands
Levant and Near East
Institutions
Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro
British East India Company
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