| Author/Editor | Darovec, J; Milčinski, L; Škerbinek, L | |
| Title | Psihiatrični zavod in njegovi pacienti med vojno (Primer Poljanskega nasipa) | |
| Type | članek | |
| Source | Traditiones | |
| Vol. and No. | Letnik 20 | |
| Publication year | 1991 | |
| Volume | str. 183-97 | |
| Language | slo | |
| Abstract | Two deviant patterns of psychiatric hospital are generally known: The first: psychiatric institution becomes a dumping-ground for medically and socially deprived individuals who on account of their predominantly psychological inadequacy and antisocial behavior present a considerable burden for social resources. Their concentration in institutions represents a convient measure, because it does not only free the society from contacts with these individuals, but also enables it to immediately and finally get rid of them. - Example: euthanasia program of the Germa Nazi regime in the years 1939-1941. The second: psychiatric institution is a state-subordinated apparatus, taking care, among other things, that the authoritarian political ideology remains protected from the infiltration of different ideas, threatening to infect the state ideology. Carriers of heretic ideas-dissidents- are directed past penal institutions directly to a closed psychiatric institution where it is taken care of that they get an appropriate, eventually ad hoc diagnosis, labelling the dissident's dissaproval with the system as his predominant psychopathological symptom. Example: dissidents in the Soviet Union untill aproximately two years ago. In the present article, the authors present the third deviant pattern of psychiatric hospital: instead of serving the commonly accepted idea of psychiatry as the practice or science of healing the mentally ill, those responsible for the functioning of a psychiatric institution try to turn it into, while still preserving the appearance of psychiatric institution - an asylum - a shelter for the imperiled. In the above mentoned process, the leading idea is that of humaneness, while psychiatry is being only a tool, serving more to mimicry than to its basic function.(trunc.) | |
| Descriptors | PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 20th CENT WAR SLOVENIA PSYCHIATRY |