„Ha ártatlanul húztak fel embereket, mért ne húznának fel engem is”. A pszichiátriai dokumentáció mint lehetséges társadalomtörténeti forrás
“If They’ve Hung Innocent People, Why Shoudn’t I Also Be Hanged”: Psychiatric Documentation as a Possible Source for Social History

Summary/Abstract: The study attempts to present the experiences of social traumas based on a hitherto unused group of sources, i.e. psychiatric files. In its current state, this research is rather an attempt to offer a selection from the materials of the National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, while also taking account of its strengths (personal character, the representation of an often invisible social group) and weaknesses (data protection, generalizability). The traumas of 20th century Hungarian history appear in the anamneses dated between 1959 and 1961, often representing the triggering cause of the disease. These archival sources may be discussed not only from the perspective of the experiences of the patients, but offer the possibility to capture the dictatorial discourses from an interdisciplinary point of view (social history, clinical psychology, anthropology).

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