Teri Chettiar
Biographic Data
| ID | 5842004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teri Chettiar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teri |
| FAMILY NAME | Chettiar |
| SIGNATURE | CHETTIAR T |
| AFFILIATIONS | History Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-4730-2385 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Trauma, Emotion and the Construction of ‘Deserving’ Victimhood in 1970s Britain
This article explores the crucial role of battered women's emotions – both those emotions that were considered legible (like fear) and those that were less immediately understandable (like shame, self‐doubt and confusion) – in public responses to intimate partner violence in 1970s Britain. I argue that the status of domestic violence as a real and urgent problem in the years leading up to its criminalization hinged on the identification of innoce…
Counselling for connection
This article examines the creation and mobilisation of counselling services by British LGBTQ+ activist organisations during the 1960s and 1970s, focusing especially on Britain’s first ‘homophile’ organisation, the Albany Trust, and Friend, the counselling and peer support wing of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (1975). Beginning in the early 1960s, activists supporting homosexual law reform launched counselling services aimed at sexual minor…
More than a Contract”
This article examines the seminal contributions of Britain's marriage counseling and therapy services toward cultivating a new emotional purpose for marriage in the decades following World War II. It presents two related narrative threads. First, it argues that psychologically oriented relationship services attracted government support because they supported the postwar ideal of a classless democratic society. Pioneering practitioners promoted a …
Treating marriage as “the sick entity”
This essay examines how marriage relationships came to be constituted as therapeutic objects after WWII and the impact that this had on British postwar understandings of the meaning of marriage. In contrast to prevailing concerns during the interwar decades about sexual dissatisfaction as the chief impediment to marital stability, post-WWII marriage counselors and therapists framed marital harmony as dependent upon spouses' psychological maturity…
Democratizing mental health
Shortly following the Second World War, and under the medical direction of ex-army psychiatrist T. F. Main, the Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorders emerged as a pioneering democratic ‘therapeutic community’ in the treatment of mental illness. This definitive movement away from conventional ‘custodial’ assumptions about the function of the psychiatric hospital initially grew out of a commitment to sharing therapeutic responsibility be…
More than a Contract”
This article examines the seminal contributions of Britain's marriage counseling and therapy services toward cultivating a new emotional purpose for marriage in the decades following World War II. It presents two related narrative threads. First, it argues that psychologically oriented relationship services attracted government support because they supported the postwar ideal of a classless democratic society. Pioneering practitioners promoted a …
Democratizing mental health
Shortly following the Second World War, and under the medical direction of ex-army psychiatrist T. F. Main, the Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorders emerged as a pioneering democratic ‘therapeutic community’ in the treatment of mental illness. This definitive movement away from conventional ‘custodial’ assumptions about the function of the psychiatric hospital initially grew out of a commitment to sharing therapeutic responsibility be…
Treating marriage as “the sick entity”
This essay examines how marriage relationships came to be constituted as therapeutic objects after WWII and the impact that this had on British postwar understandings of the meaning of marriage. In contrast to prevailing concerns during the interwar decades about sexual dissatisfaction as the chief impediment to marital stability, post-WWII marriage counselors and therapists framed marital harmony as dependent upon spouses' psychological maturity…
Democratizing mental health
Shortly following the Second World War, and under the medical direction of ex-army psychiatrist T. F. Main, the Cassel Hospital for Functional Nervous Disorders emerged as a pioneering democratic ‘therapeutic community’ in the treatment of mental illness. This definitive movement away from conventional ‘custodial’ assumptions about the function of the psychiatric hospital initially grew out of a commitment to sharing therapeutic responsibility be…
Treating marriage as “the sick entity”
This essay examines how marriage relationships came to be constituted as therapeutic objects after WWII and the impact that this had on British postwar understandings of the meaning of marriage. In contrast to prevailing concerns during the interwar decades about sexual dissatisfaction as the chief impediment to marital stability, post-WWII marriage counselors and therapists framed marital harmony as dependent upon spouses' psychological maturity…
More than a Contract”
This article examines the seminal contributions of Britain's marriage counseling and therapy services toward cultivating a new emotional purpose for marriage in the decades following World War II. It presents two related narrative threads. First, it argues that psychologically oriented relationship services attracted government support because they supported the postwar ideal of a classless democratic society. Pioneering practitioners promoted a …
Counselling for connection
This article examines the creation and mobilisation of counselling services by British LGBTQ+ activist organisations during the 1960s and 1970s, focusing especially on Britain’s first ‘homophile’ organisation, the Albany Trust, and Friend, the counselling and peer support wing of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (1975). Beginning in the early 1960s, activists supporting homosexual law reform launched counselling services aimed at sexual minor…
Trauma, Emotion and the Construction of ‘Deserving’ Victimhood in 1970s Britain
This article explores the crucial role of battered women's emotions – both those emotions that were considered legible (like fear) and those that were less immediately understandable (like shame, self‐doubt and confusion) – in public responses to intimate partner violence in 1970s Britain. I argue that the status of domestic violence as a real and urgent problem in the years leading up to its criminalization hinged on the identification of innoce…
Sociology (5 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)