Chris Millard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1695696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Millard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Millard |
| SIGNATURE | MILLARD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5517-492X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The paradox of necessary uncertainty: Psychopathy, welfare and Munchausen Syndrome in 1950s England
ArgumentThe cluster of psychiatric concepts that includes "personality disorders," "psychopathy" and "moral insanity" has long been controversial and uncertain. This article investigates the concept of "psychopathy" in 1950s England and shows how this ambiguity is not a flaw or failure in the concept but absolutely necessary for the role it carries out: policing broad areas of social life. A case of Munchausen syndrome (a type of "psychopathy") i…
Anne Harrington, Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
The Utilization of Cultural Movements to Overcome Stigma in Narrative of Postnatal Depression
Background: Despite affecting 15% of new mothers, experience of postnatal depression has often been hidden by stigma, cultural beliefs, and lack of medical understanding. We examined the barriers to women sharing their experience and gaining help, using their own words to illuminate the experiences of stigma and injustice. This study examines the narratives of women across the twentieth century, explores cultural movements that framed and context…
Thinking in, with, across, and beyond cases with John Forrester
We consider the influence that John Forrester’s work has had on thinking in, with, and from cases in multiple disciplines. Forrester’s essay ‘If p, Then What? Thinking in Cases’ was published in History of the Human Sciences in 1996 and transformed understandings of what a case was, and how case-based thinking worked in numerous human sciences (including, centrally, psychoanalysis). Forrester’s collection of essays Thinking in Cases was published…
Using personal experience in the academic medical humanities: A genealogy
Using personal experience in the academic medical humanities: A genealogy
The inclusion of personal experience in academic work, especially in the medical humanities, has increased markedly in the recent past. This article traces the roots of this development, arguing that it is not a simply off-shoot of ‘experts by experience’ in mental health, but has its own specific set of precursors and enabling conditions. Three of these are explored in detail, under the headings of ‘psychoanalysis’, ‘social history’ and ‘anthrop…
Leigh Dale, Responses to Self Harm: An Historical Analysis of Medical, Religious, Military and Psychological Perspectives
Leigh Dale’s book on self-harm is ambitious, thoughtful and informed by a huge array of texts. The central aim of the book is ‘to demonstrate that self harm is many things’ rather than one single thing, ‘an illness in and of itself’ (p.186, emphases in original). The book’s definition of self-harm is broad and idiosyncratic: ‘self-inflicted physical injury which prompts medical intervention. Paradigmatic forms include amputation of a limb or geni…
Concepts, Diagnosis and the History of Medicine: Historicising Ian Hacking and Munchausen Syndrome
Concepts used by historians are as historical as the diagnoses or categories that are studied. The example of Munchausen syndrome (deceptive presentation of illness in order to adopt the 'sick role') is used to explore this. Like most psychiatric diagnoses, Munchausen syndrome is not thought applicable across time by social historians of medicine. It is historically specific, drawing upon twentieth-century anthropology and sociology to explain mo…
Making the cut: The production of ‘self-harm’ in post-1945 Anglo-Saxon psychiatry
Deliberate self-harm', 'self-mutilation' and 'self-injury' are just some of the terms used to describe one of the most prominent issues in British mental health policy in recent years. This article demonstrates that contemporary literature on 'self-harm' produces this phenomenon (to varying extents) around two key characteristics. First, this behaviour is predominantly performed by those identified as female. Second, this behaviour primarily invo…
Making the cut: The production of ‘self-harm’ in post-1945 Anglo-Saxon psychiatry
Deliberate self-harm', 'self-mutilation' and 'self-injury' are just some of the terms used to describe one of the most prominent issues in British mental health policy in recent years. This article demonstrates that contemporary literature on 'self-harm' produces this phenomenon (to varying extents) around two key characteristics. First, this behaviour is predominantly performed by those identified as female. Second, this behaviour primarily invo…
Concepts, Diagnosis and the History of Medicine: Historicising Ian Hacking and Munchausen Syndrome
Concepts used by historians are as historical as the diagnoses or categories that are studied. The example of Munchausen syndrome (deceptive presentation of illness in order to adopt the 'sick role') is used to explore this. Like most psychiatric diagnoses, Munchausen syndrome is not thought applicable across time by social historians of medicine. It is historically specific, drawing upon twentieth-century anthropology and sociology to explain mo…
The paradox of necessary uncertainty: Psychopathy, welfare and Munchausen Syndrome in 1950s England
ArgumentThe cluster of psychiatric concepts that includes "personality disorders," "psychopathy" and "moral insanity" has long been controversial and uncertain. This article investigates the concept of "psychopathy" in 1950s England and shows how this ambiguity is not a flaw or failure in the concept but absolutely necessary for the role it carries out: policing broad areas of social life. A case of Munchausen syndrome (a type of "psychopathy") i…
Thinking in, with, across, and beyond cases with John Forrester
We consider the influence that John Forrester’s work has had on thinking in, with, and from cases in multiple disciplines. Forrester’s essay ‘If p, Then What? Thinking in Cases’ was published in History of the Human Sciences in 1996 and transformed understandings of what a case was, and how case-based thinking worked in numerous human sciences (including, centrally, psychoanalysis). Forrester’s collection of essays Thinking in Cases was published…
Making the cut: The production of ‘self-harm’ in post-1945 Anglo-Saxon psychiatry
Deliberate self-harm', 'self-mutilation' and 'self-injury' are just some of the terms used to describe one of the most prominent issues in British mental health policy in recent years. This article demonstrates that contemporary literature on 'self-harm' produces this phenomenon (to varying extents) around two key characteristics. First, this behaviour is predominantly performed by those identified as female. Second, this behaviour primarily invo…
Leigh Dale, Responses to Self Harm: An Historical Analysis of Medical, Religious, Military and Psychological Perspectives
Leigh Dale’s book on self-harm is ambitious, thoughtful and informed by a huge array of texts. The central aim of the book is ‘to demonstrate that self harm is many things’ rather than one single thing, ‘an illness in and of itself’ (p.186, emphases in original). The book’s definition of self-harm is broad and idiosyncratic: ‘self-inflicted physical injury which prompts medical intervention. Paradigmatic forms include amputation of a limb or geni…
Concepts, Diagnosis and the History of Medicine: Historicising Ian Hacking and Munchausen Syndrome
Concepts used by historians are as historical as the diagnoses or categories that are studied. The example of Munchausen syndrome (deceptive presentation of illness in order to adopt the 'sick role') is used to explore this. Like most psychiatric diagnoses, Munchausen syndrome is not thought applicable across time by social historians of medicine. It is historically specific, drawing upon twentieth-century anthropology and sociology to explain mo…
Using personal experience in the academic medical humanities: A genealogy
Using personal experience in the academic medical humanities: A genealogy
The inclusion of personal experience in academic work, especially in the medical humanities, has increased markedly in the recent past. This article traces the roots of this development, arguing that it is not a simply off-shoot of ‘experts by experience’ in mental health, but has its own specific set of precursors and enabling conditions. Three of these are explored in detail, under the headings of ‘psychoanalysis’, ‘social history’ and ‘anthrop…
The Utilization of Cultural Movements to Overcome Stigma in Narrative of Postnatal Depression
Background: Despite affecting 15% of new mothers, experience of postnatal depression has often been hidden by stigma, cultural beliefs, and lack of medical understanding. We examined the barriers to women sharing their experience and gaining help, using their own words to illuminate the experiences of stigma and injustice. This study examines the narratives of women across the twentieth century, explores cultural movements that framed and context…
Thinking in, with, across, and beyond cases with John Forrester
We consider the influence that John Forrester’s work has had on thinking in, with, and from cases in multiple disciplines. Forrester’s essay ‘If p, Then What? Thinking in Cases’ was published in History of the Human Sciences in 1996 and transformed understandings of what a case was, and how case-based thinking worked in numerous human sciences (including, centrally, psychoanalysis). Forrester’s collection of essays Thinking in Cases was published…
Anne Harrington, Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
The paradox of necessary uncertainty: Psychopathy, welfare and Munchausen Syndrome in 1950s England
ArgumentThe cluster of psychiatric concepts that includes "personality disorders," "psychopathy" and "moral insanity" has long been controversial and uncertain. This article investigates the concept of "psychopathy" in 1950s England and shows how this ambiguity is not a flaw or failure in the concept but absolutely necessary for the role it carries out: policing broad areas of social life. A case of Munchausen syndrome (a type of "psychopathy") i…
Psychology (9 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)