The Patient's Turn Roy Porter and Psychiatry's Tales, Thirty Years on.

"The authors would like to thank Stephen T. Casper and Mark S. Micale for their insightful comments on this article. Earlier versions of this piece were presented by the first author at the Psychiatry and Culture in Historical Perspective Working Group (Yale) and by the second author at the ‘Quelle histoire pour la médecine et la science? Dialogues autour d’une oeuvre’ seminar (Institute of the History of Medicine, Lausanne - IUHMSP). Thanks are due to the participants of these events for bringing forth new ideas, especially Matthew Gambino and Mical Raz (Yale) and Vincent Barras and Francesco Panese (Lausanne). Finally, the authors would like to acknowledge the assistance of three anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions. This work was made possible by a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship to the first author. 41.: For a representative example of this new scholarship, see, eg., Lorelle Barry and Catharine Coleborne, ‘Insanity and ethnicity in New Zealand: Maori encounters with the Auckland mental hospital, 1860–1900,’ History of Psychiatry 22, 3 (2011), 285–301; Lindy Wilbraham, ‘Reconstructing Harry: A Genealogical Study of a Colonial Family “Inside” and “Outside” the Grahamstown Asylum, 1888–1918’, Medical History, 58, 2 (April 2014), 166–87; Jonathan Sadowsky, ‘The Confinement of Isaac O.’ in Imperial Bedlam: Institutions of Madness in Colonia Southwest Nigeria (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999), 78–96; and Fatih Artvinli, ‘Ali Enver in Toptaşı Bimarhanesi Gözlemler’ [Ali Enver’s Observations on the Toptasi Lunatic Asylum], Toplumsal Tarih, 194 (Şubat 2010), 66–73. For historiographical considerations on the Japanese context, see Akihito Suzuki, ‘The State, Family, and the Insane in Japan, 1900–45’ in Roy Porter and David Wright (eds), The Confinement of the Insane. International Perspectives, 1800–1965 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 193–225. In other countries such as Russia, historians have yet to adopt the idea of a history of psychiatry ‘from below’ (Irina Sirotkina, personal communication to the authors, July 2015). 68.: For other examples of other recent works that use novel methodological and theoretical approaches to tell patient stories ‘from below’, see, eg., Jacyna and Casper, op. cit. (note 4); Aude Fauvel, ‘A world-famous lunatic. Baron Raymond Seillière (1845–1911) and the patient’s view in transnational perspective’, in Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Mueller (eds), Transnational Psychiatries. Social & Cultural Histories of Psychiatry in Comparative Perspective, c. 1800–2000 (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), 200–28; and Akihito Suzuki, ‘My Own Private England – the Madness of James Tilly Matthews and of his Times’, History of Psychiatry, 16/4, 64 (2005), 497–502."