Papers by Sonu Shamdasani
Historia Ciencias Saude-manguinhos, 2022
Histórias transculturais de psicoterapias: novas narrativas Caros leitores, Neste número especial... more Histórias transculturais de psicoterapias: novas narrativas Caros leitores, Neste número especial investigamos histórias das psicoterapias. É possível encontrar o termo "psicoterapia" já em meados do século XIX. Médicos advindos de escolas diversas, como Tuke, Bernheim e Van Eeden começaram a utilizá-lo para definir terapias que buscavam o tratamento moral, curar automatismos, persuadir ou produzir catarse, afetando o corpo, a mente e o subconsciente. No início do século XX, a palavra ganhou maior espaço de circulação, sendo adotada por autores como Dubois, Janet, Forel, Jaspers e Jung, que passaram a buscar afetar comportamentos e o inconsciente. O termo ganhou ainda maior notoriedade e diversidade no pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial, passando a ser adotado por autores de referência psicanalítica, do gestaltismo, da escola existencial e mesmo por autores provenientes de referenciais cognitivo-comportamentais (Borch-Jacobsen, 2009). No mundo contemporâneo, e apesar da falta de consenso sobre o seu significado, as psicoterapias ganharam um papel ainda mais central para as definições dos sujeitos, impactando os conceitos de sofrimento e de bem-estar psicológico e a ideia de identidade, sendo possível afirmar que conformamos hoje culturas e sociedades psicoterápicas (Shamdasani, 2017). Este número especial apresenta diferentes histórias das psicoterapias, considerando que a expressão conforma um conjunto de práticas, historicamente situadas, que incorporam e produzem valores culturais específicos que precisam ser investigadas em termos de circulação, troca e deslocamento de uma rede de práticas conectadas em diferentes domínios (Subrahmanyam, 2004). A proposta advém de debates desenvolvidos no interior de um grupo internacional coordenado pelo professor Sonu Shamdasani (University College London, UCL) que vem se encontrando anualmente desde 2016 (recentemente apenas online), com apoio da UCL Global Engagement Office. Desde 2019, o tema ganhou nova institucionalização, por meio de um "Memorandum of Understanding" entre a UCL e a Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. A partir dessas trocas, novos membros foram incorporados ao grupo, que é composto por psicólogos, psicanalistas, historiadores e filósofos de países da América Latina, da Ásia, da Europa e dos EUA. O artigo de Sonu Shamdasani abre o número. Seu trabalho reflete sobre o desenvolvimento da perspectiva transcultural da história das psicoterapias. Analisando a historiografia sobre o tema, o autor aponta os limites de estudos que pensam as psicoterapias em termos universalistas, propondo ser o reconhecimento dos aspectos culturais e temporais nas psicoterapias ocidentais o que permite compreender as suas apropriações em contextos culturais radicalmente diferentes, em formas de redes recíprocas de troca.
Archives of neurology and psychiatry, Mar 1, 1919
With deep sorrow we record the passing of Dr. James Jackson Putnam, who died of angina pectoris o... more With deep sorrow we record the passing of Dr. James Jackson Putnam, who died of angina pectoris on Nov. 4, 1918. A more adequate sketch and appreciation will appear in a future number of The Archives, but it is fitting that we should now pause and give a thought to the personality and career of this great man.
... In 1889, the word was taken up by an English physician, Charles Lloyd Tuckey, who published a... more ... In 1889, the word was taken up by an English physician, Charles Lloyd Tuckey, who published an exposition of the work of the Nancy schooL Tuckey titled his work, Psycho-therapeutics, or Treat-ment by Hypnotism and Suggestion. ...
... worked, and hence the prevailing con-cepts of hypnosis and suggestions. Furthermore, as Forel... more ... worked, and hence the prevailing con-cepts of hypnosis and suggestions. Furthermore, as Forel indicates, a num-ber of patients studied by Jung had already been studied by Bleuler and Forel. ... Dr. CG Jung, November 1940-July 1941, ed. Barbara Hannah, p. 172.) ...
Gesnerus, 1995
... A psychoanalytic article by the "Wolfmann"]. Borch-Jacobsen, M and ... more ... A psychoanalytic article by the "Wolfmann"]. Borch-Jacobsen, M and Shamdasani, S (1995) [A document: the problem of free will and psychoanalysis. ... University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 2000 © UCL 1999–.
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
This article introduces the work of the transcultural histories of psychotherapies network. Refle... more This article introduces the work of the transcultural histories of psychotherapies network. Reflecting on the comparative lack of work here, it traces psychotherapies’ identity crisis, focussing on nodal points such as the rise of the term, failed attempts to unify the field from Forel to Jung, and the rise of outcome studies. Finally, it situates histories of psychotherapies within the context of adjacent fields: the relation of the history of psychotherapy to the history of science, to Freud studies, to the history of religion and religious studies, to intellectual history, to the history of psychiatry, to the history of medicine, and its place within cultural history.
SONU SHAMDASANI & MICHAEL MUNCHOW, EDS.: Speculations after Freud: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and... more SONU SHAMDASANI & MICHAEL MUNCHOW, EDS.: Speculations after Freud: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Culture. Routledge, London and New York, 1994, 227 pp., $16.95. Speculations after Feud: Psychoanalysis, philosophy and culture is a collection of papers by psychoanalysts, philosophers, and cultural studies scholars who have a common interest in "Freud" as seen through the lenses of what is variously called continental philosophy, postmodernism, poststructuralism, literary theory, critical theory, and sometimes just plain old "theory." This "theory" approach is currently the source of some of the most creative and original thinking throughout academia, particularly in disciplines to which the French refer collectively as the sciences humaines (sociology, anthropology, linguistics, psychology, literary theory, philosophy, history). As a result, "theory" is getting much attention on campus and many American universities are rapidly putting together...
History of Modern Psychology, 2018
Princeton University Press eBooks, Feb 8, 2022
Consciousness and the Unconscious, 2022
Between 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung lectured at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (ETH). H... more Between 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung lectured at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology (ETH). He was appointed a professor there in 1935. This represented a resumption of his university career after a long hiatus, as he had resigned his post as a lecturer in the medical faculty at the University of Zu rich in 1914. In the intervening period, Jung's teaching activity had principally consisted in a series of seminars at the Psy chol ogy Club in Zu rich, which were restricted to a membership consisting of his own students or followers. The lectures at ETH were open, and the audience for the lectures was made up of students at ETH, the general public, and Jung's followers. The attendance at each lecture was in the hundreds: Josef Lang, in a letter to Hermann Hesse, spoke of six hundred participants at the end of 1933, 1 Jung counted four hundred in October 1935. 2 Kurt Binswanger, who attended the lectures, recalled that people often could not find a seat and that the listeners " were of all ages and of all social classes: students. .. ; middle-aged people; also many older people; many ladies who were once in analy sis with Jung." 3 Jung himself attributed this success to the novelty of his lectures and expected a gradual decline in numbers: " Because of the huge crowd my lectures have to be held in the auditorium maximum. It is of course their sensational nature that enchants people to come. As soon as people will realize that these lectures are concerned with serious matters, the numbers will become more modest." 4 1
Psychology of Yoga and Meditation, 2021
This chapter considers the representation of the legacy of National Socialist eugenics and human ... more This chapter considers the representation of the legacy of National Socialist eugenics and human experimentation in Kerstin Hensel’s novel Larchenau (2008). Larchenau chronicles a period of almost a century (1915–2007) in a small village in the Oder-Spree district of Brandenburg. The chapter draws on the work of Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich in order to argue that Hensel’s characters enact sado-masochistic behaviour patterns which echo the medical crimes of the Third Reich. Hensel’s novel – in part, a tribute to Ingeborg Bachmann’s Das Buch Franza/The Book of Franza (1978/1995) – centres on the geneticist Gunter Konarske who conducts a series of medical experiments on his wife Adele. Although Konarske is born in 1944, his practices bear comparison to the human experiments carried out by Carl Clauberg in Auschwitz. Clauberg’s victims were unaware that they were experimental subjects, and, in Hensel’s novel, so too is Adele. Reading Larchenau against the background of Nazi medi...
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