Despo Kritsotaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 4101918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Despo Kritsotaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Despo |
| FAMILY NAME | Kritsotaki |
| SIGNATURE | KRITSOTAKI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Crete |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0694-1365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gender and Expertise in the Mixed Economy of Mental Welfare in Greece
The late 1970s and the 1980s were a time of political and social change in Greece, following the collapse of the seven-year military dictatorship, as well as a time of rupture in mental healthcare: new approaches were being developed, including those implemented by the Society of Social Psychiatry and Mental Health, a voluntary, nonprofit scientific association, founded in 1981 (officially in 1986). This article places the initiatives undertaken …
Mental Healthcare in Postwar Greece, c. 1950–1970
While mental health experts and government officials all over Europe andNorth America were concerned about the increase in mental troubles and hospitalised patients after World War II, in Greece the mental health system entered a phase of development: between 1950 and 1970 traditional intramural institutions expanded, and alternative extramural services and prevention and aftercare programmes were introduced.This article analyses the sum of these…
Changing Psychiatry or Changing Society? The Motion for the Rights of the “Mentally Ill” in Greece, 1980-1990
In 1980, the first formal association of mental patients, their relatives, and mental health professionals was founded in Athens, Greece. The Motion for the Rights of the “Mentally Ill” proposed a total restructuring of mental health care and a novel conceptualization of mental illness. On the one hand, it demanded that the mental health system be based on open services, psychotherapy, and on patients’ active participation in all decisions concer…
From Virginity to Orgasm
This article charts the gradual sexualization of marriage in twentieth-century Greece, exploring both expert and lay ideas. First, through official writings and marital correspondence, it sketches the subtle transformation of the nineteenth-century ideal of conjugal love into a more sexualized emotion by the turn of the century. Then, it analyzes the writings of “sex experts” and the correspondence with their clients, showcasing how sexual pleasu…
Progressive science meets indifferent state? Revisiting mental health care reform in post-war Greece (1950-1980)
After the Second World War, many Western countries implemented mental health care reforms that included legislative changes, measures to modernise psychiatric hospitals, and policies to deinstitutionalise mental health care, shifting its locus from residential hospitals to community services. In Greece, psychiatric reform began in the late 1970s and was linked to the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974, the general reorganisation of health …
Deinstitutionalisation and After
Turning Private Concerns into Public Issues
This article explores the history of mental retardation in the context of the parents' movement in Greece between 1950 and 1980, when the fields of child mental health and special education were becoming established. I focus on the first association of parents of children with mental retardation and use the concepts of public sociality and social movement to analyze how this association perceived mental health and normality in children and how it…
Sevasti Trubeta, Physical Anthropology, Race and Eugenics in Greece (1880s–1970s)
What are the political meanings and implications of scientific knowledge? Can science be politically neutral? How are academic careers shaped by socio-political conditions and conflicts? These are among the stimulating questions examined by sociologist Sevasti Trubeta in her recent book Physical Anthropology, Race and Eugenics in Greece (1880s–1970s). Drawing on the disciplines of history and sociology of science, as well as on the social history…
Mental Hygiene and Child Guidance in Post-war Greece
This paper focuses on the Centre for Mental Health and Research, an organisation launched in Athens in 1956 and that is still operational today. Its story up to 1970 is analysed as a case study of the development of mental hygiene and child guidance in Greece, where international movements became relevant within the context of the social transformations of the post-war period. Seizing the opportunities created by the ‘modernisation’ of Greece and…
Elizabeth Anne Davis, Bad Souls
Journal Article Elizabeth Anne Davis, Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece Get access Elizabeth Anne Davis, Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece, Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. vii + 331. £17.99. ISBN 978 0 8223 5106 1. Despo Kritsotaki Despo Kritsotaki University of Crete, Greece and University of Strathclyde, Scotland [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Mental Hygiene and Child Guidance in Post-war Greece
This paper focuses on the Centre for Mental Health and Research, an organisation launched in Athens in 1956 and that is still operational today. Its story up to 1970 is analysed as a case study of the development of mental hygiene and child guidance in Greece, where international movements became relevant within the context of the social transformations of the post-war period. Seizing the opportunities created by the ‘modernisation’ of Greece and…
From Virginity to Orgasm
This article charts the gradual sexualization of marriage in twentieth-century Greece, exploring both expert and lay ideas. First, through official writings and marital correspondence, it sketches the subtle transformation of the nineteenth-century ideal of conjugal love into a more sexualized emotion by the turn of the century. Then, it analyzes the writings of “sex experts” and the correspondence with their clients, showcasing how sexual pleasu…
Elizabeth Anne Davis, Bad Souls
Journal Article Elizabeth Anne Davis, Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece Get access Elizabeth Anne Davis, Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece, Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. vii + 331. £17.99. ISBN 978 0 8223 5106 1. Despo Kritsotaki Despo Kritsotaki University of Crete, Greece and University of Strathclyde, Scotland [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Mental Hygiene and Child Guidance in Post-war Greece
This paper focuses on the Centre for Mental Health and Research, an organisation launched in Athens in 1956 and that is still operational today. Its story up to 1970 is analysed as a case study of the development of mental hygiene and child guidance in Greece, where international movements became relevant within the context of the social transformations of the post-war period. Seizing the opportunities created by the ‘modernisation’ of Greece and…
Sevasti Trubeta, Physical Anthropology, Race and Eugenics in Greece (1880s–1970s)
What are the political meanings and implications of scientific knowledge? Can science be politically neutral? How are academic careers shaped by socio-political conditions and conflicts? These are among the stimulating questions examined by sociologist Sevasti Trubeta in her recent book Physical Anthropology, Race and Eugenics in Greece (1880s–1970s). Drawing on the disciplines of history and sociology of science, as well as on the social history…
Deinstitutionalisation and After
Turning Private Concerns into Public Issues
This article explores the history of mental retardation in the context of the parents' movement in Greece between 1950 and 1980, when the fields of child mental health and special education were becoming established. I focus on the first association of parents of children with mental retardation and use the concepts of public sociality and social movement to analyze how this association perceived mental health and normality in children and how it…
Progressive science meets indifferent state? Revisiting mental health care reform in post-war Greece (1950-1980)
After the Second World War, many Western countries implemented mental health care reforms that included legislative changes, measures to modernise psychiatric hospitals, and policies to deinstitutionalise mental health care, shifting its locus from residential hospitals to community services. In Greece, psychiatric reform began in the late 1970s and was linked to the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974, the general reorganisation of health …
From Virginity to Orgasm
This article charts the gradual sexualization of marriage in twentieth-century Greece, exploring both expert and lay ideas. First, through official writings and marital correspondence, it sketches the subtle transformation of the nineteenth-century ideal of conjugal love into a more sexualized emotion by the turn of the century. Then, it analyzes the writings of “sex experts” and the correspondence with their clients, showcasing how sexual pleasu…
Mental Healthcare in Postwar Greece, c. 1950–1970
While mental health experts and government officials all over Europe andNorth America were concerned about the increase in mental troubles and hospitalised patients after World War II, in Greece the mental health system entered a phase of development: between 1950 and 1970 traditional intramural institutions expanded, and alternative extramural services and prevention and aftercare programmes were introduced.This article analyses the sum of these…
Changing Psychiatry or Changing Society? The Motion for the Rights of the “Mentally Ill” in Greece, 1980-1990
In 1980, the first formal association of mental patients, their relatives, and mental health professionals was founded in Athens, Greece. The Motion for the Rights of the “Mentally Ill” proposed a total restructuring of mental health care and a novel conceptualization of mental illness. On the one hand, it demanded that the mental health system be based on open services, psychotherapy, and on patients’ active participation in all decisions concer…
Gender and Expertise in the Mixed Economy of Mental Welfare in Greece
The late 1970s and the 1980s were a time of political and social change in Greece, following the collapse of the seven-year military dictatorship, as well as a time of rupture in mental healthcare: new approaches were being developed, including those implemented by the Society of Social Psychiatry and Mental Health, a voluntary, nonprofit scientific association, founded in 1981 (officially in 1986). This article places the initiatives undertaken …
Political science (8 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (4 works) · Law (4 works) · History (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)