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The Torturing of Mentally Ill Prisoners The guards at a Florida correctional facility beat and starved inmates—and even killed one—but the psychiatric staff was too afraid to speak up.

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We are pleased to announce the next History and Social Studies of Medicine Forum on May 29, 2015:
Richard Noll, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology
DeSales University, Pennsylvania

"Dementia Praecox and Schizophrenia in America, 1896-1952"

How did new European disease concepts of chronic psychosis enable the emergence of American psychiatry? Why were they so quickly dissolved by American elites in favor of a discourse of prodromes of generalized vulnerability? This is a story about how American schizophrenia became something seen but never quite grasped, a wound without flesh.

12:30 pm, Friday, May 29, 2015

History and Special Collections Area of the Biomedical Library

Everyone is welcome, but there is limited seating capacity, so if you plan on attending (and want lunch), *PLEASE RSVP* to Russell Johnson or Teresa Johnson at 310-825-6940
or at [email protected] , no later than 9 am, Tuesday, May 26.

Hi Everyone, please join us for our next event:


WHY DOES PSYCHOANALYSIS STILL MATTER?


Join the Psychoanalytic Communities of Los Angeles and the Faculty and Residents of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
to honor the winners of the 2015 Leo Rangell Essay Contest

KELLEY O’DONNELL, PhD, MD 2015, UCLA
RICHARD TUCH, PhD, Dean, New Center for Psychoanalysis, LA

and participate in an open discussion about their thought-provoking essays!

4-6 pm, Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Gonda Conference Room (Gonda 1357), UCLA

A project of the Leo Rangell Professorial Endowment
http://leorangell.semel.ucla.edu/


Questions: [email protected] or [email protected]

Leo Rangell | Devoted to the study of Psychoanalysis Dr. Leo Rangell (1913-2011) was a leading American psychoanalyst, writer, teacher, and charismatic leader in his field. He championed the insights of Freudian and humanistic psychiatry in an era increasingly dominated by antipsychotic drugs. Rangell authored 450 papers and nine books, taught at UCLA…

Paul Brodwin, PhD, Professor of Medical Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

"Gestures of Care: An Ethnography of Mental Health Reform"


This paper explores how to study care – as intervention, affect and relational field – in impersonal bureaucratic institutions. Recent fieldwork in mental health courts (a reform effort aimed at reducing the incarceration of people with severe psychiatric disorders) reveals several dimensions of care in the absence of significant intimacy between courtroom staff members and defendant/patients. The braided logics of psychiatry and criminal justice produce a distinctive form of care, embedded in the foundational inequalities of this setting.

12:30 pm, Friday, April 24, 2015

History and Special Collections Area of the Biomedical Library

Everyone is welcome, but there is limited seating capacity, so if you plan on attending (and would like lunch), *PLEASE RSVP* to Russell Johnson or Teresa Johnson at 310-825-6940
or at [email protected] , no
later than Monday morning, April 20.

EVENT CANCELED AS OF TODAY 3/3/2015:

We are pleased to announce the next History and Social Studies of Medicine Forum on March 6, 2015:
Richard Noll, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology
DeSales University, Pennsylvania

"Dementia Praecox and Schizophrenia in America, 1896-1952"

How did new European disease concepts of chronic psychosis enable the emergence of American psychiatry? Why were they so quickly dissolved by American elites in favor of a discourse of prodromes of generalized vulnerability? This is a story about how American schizophrenia became something seen but never quite grasped, a wound without flesh.

12:30 pm, Friday, March 6, 2015

History and Special Collections Area of the Biomedical Library

Everyone is welcome, but there is limited seating capacity, so if you plan on attending (and want lunch), *PLEASE RSVP* to Russell Johnson or Teresa Johnson at 310-825-6940
or at [email protected] , no
later than March 2.

Please join us on our next event on November 13, 2014:

History and Social Studies of Medicine Research Forum
David Healy, MD, FRCPsych, Professor of Psychological Medicine
University of Wales College of Medicine, Bangor, UK

"Is Science Authoritative?"

In the absence of access to clinical trial data, scientific publications about trials can take on an authoritative note that is more biblical than scientific. Giving others access to the data allows them the opportunity to replicate or re-author a trial. When this process was put into practice in a demonstration trial as part of a RIAT [Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials] initiative (Doshi et al BMJ July 2013), the results made it clear that properly scientific articles should have a much more provisional tone than is ordinarily found in medical articles today.

This talk will feature the background history to and major findings from Dr. Healy’s forthcoming publication and will be followed by discussion.

CHS 23-105 1:00 – 2:30 pm, Thursday, November 13, 2014

Everyone is welcome. For questions, Russell Johnson or Teresa
Johnson at [email protected] , or Marcia Meldrum at [email protected] .

First Annual Leo Rangell Essay Contest | History and Social Studies of Medicine, David Geffen... The Leo Rangell Professorial Endowment is pleased to announce our first essay contest. The essay contest is part of the Endowment’s overall goal of fostering the study of psychoanalysis as both an object of study and an analytic and potentially therapeutic tool in its own right. Stewart and Lynda R…

An article written by Dr. Joel Braslow and Dr. Kelsey Martin discussing the progress and struggles of brain research studies

Markers on the Road to Understanding the Brain Responses to an Op-Ed article, “The Trouble With Brain Science.”