Outsider art and psychoanalytic psychiatry the 'nativity of fools' at the Cogoleto Psychiatric Hospital / Cosimo Schinaia.
| Author/creator | Schinaia, Cosimo, 1951- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Presepe dei folli. English |
| Series | Psychoanalytic ideas and applications series |
| Contents | Cogoleto Psychiatric Hospital -- Thinking beyond the asylum -- Projects and materials for a nativity scene in the asylum -- The nativity -- Segregation -- The square -- The doctors' office -- Electroshock -- The children's ward -- Work -- Death -- Between past and future. |
| Abstract | "Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry is a study of psychiatric institutes and psychiatric violence as seen through art created by the inhabitants of a psychiatric hospital. Cosimo Schinaia explores the history of the Cogoleto Psychiatric Hospital, now abandoned, and how its architecture and ideology influenced treatment of the patients who lived there. At the book's core is an in-depth historical, anthropological, and psychoanalytical study of the 'Nativity of Fools', a large art installation constructed from 1980 to 1984 by patients, nurses and psychiatrists, representing their everyday lives in the asylum. Schinaia's understanding of the scenes considers questions of nostalgia, isolation, privacy and freedom, and reflects on the risks of institutionalised segregation. The book proposes original psychoanalytic reflections on the subject of the obsolescence of psychiatric hospitals and treating mental suffering without institutionalising people. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and nurses as well as readers interested in outsider art, Arte Povera, and the history of psychiatric institutions and contemporary psychiatry"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Translation of: Il Presepe dei folli. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023041293 |
| ISBN | 9781032464510 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032464503 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |