Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENT 5
3. Aktion #1246a 8
4. Material Cultures of Psychiatry 10
5. Pat. No. 25682 30
6. I. Scenography and Space
7. Oil on Canvas: An Isolation Cell Constructed by the k.k. Hofoperntheater for the Asylum 42
8. Silent “Night of Madness”? Light, Voice, Sounds, and Space in the Illenau Asylum in Baden between 1842 and 1910 44
9. “Le cabanon du fou”: Uses of the Shed As a Confinement Device for the Insane in French Rural Households in the 19th Century 74
10. “Amongst the Most Important of the Agencies”: Materializing “Nature” at the American Lunatic Asylum 96
11. Have a Seat!: Approaching the Object of the Chair at the Site of Psychiatry 116
12. II. Transforming Practices
13. Have a Seat 138
14. The Fabric of Seclusion: Textiles As Media of (Spatial) Interaction in Isolation Cells of Mental Hospitals 140
15. Theories of the “Savage”: The Material Varek (Seagrass) As a Bearer of Meaning in Psychiatry around 1900 158
16. Untitled 184
17. The Uses and Misuses of Television in Long-Stay Psychiatric and “Mental Handicap” Wards, 1950s–1980s 186
18. Buttons and Stimuli: The Material Basis of Electroconvulsive Therapy As a Place of Historical Change 202
19. III. Agents of Healing
20. Materiality 226
21. “The Magical Device”: Temple Grandin’s Hug Machine 228
22. The Piano in the Asylum and the Insanity of the Composer: Two Variations on a Theme (with Interlude) 256
23. The Effectiveness of Symbols: Psychogeographic Explorations of the Body 282
24. IV. Bodies, Senses, and the Self
25. Loss of Identity 298
26. Lives in Storage: Clothes and Other Personal Effects As a Way of Recovering Patients’ Histories in a Psychiatric Hospital 300
27. A Corridor That Moves: Corporeal Encounters with Materiality in a Mental Hospital 334
28. Psychographics and the Materials of Time Measurement in Modern French Psychiatry 354
29. V. Teaching Projects
30. Artistic Research on Things in/of Psychiatry: An Interdisciplinary Teaching Project 380
31. Cover, Rip Up, Unwrap: Scenes with Material from the Mental Asylum. A Documentary Theater Based on Medical Records 386
32. Notes on Contributors 408