The psychiatric work villages in Israel
A micro working community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19445497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Efrat Keidar (0009-0005-3712-3789, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 383-396 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Psychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-154X • E-ISSN: 1740-2360 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0957154x231193078 |
| PMID | 37638705 |
| OpenAlex | W4386208850 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
This paper examines the psychiatric work villages in Israel, which have so far had little historiographic attention. In the 1950s and 1960s, four work villages were established for people with psychiatric disabilities. They were intended to create a long-term rehabilitative alternative to the common hospitalization practice. These villages were organized around employment in various branches of farming and also offered recreational and cultural activities to alleviate the patients’ loneliness and to create a community life. The villages echoed central values of the new country: labour, manufacturing, cooperativity, and cultural and community life. I will discuss the similarities between the psychiatric work villages and earlier, mostly Western, psychiatric therapeutic models, such as moral treatment and the therapeutic community model
Loneliness · Political science · Psychiatry · Recreation · Sociology · Therapeutic community · Engineering · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Law · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychiatric care and mental health services · Psychology
‘Therapeutic community’, psychiatry’s reformers and antipsychiatrists
The mentally ill and how they were perceived in young Israel
Benevolent theory
Recalling the Survivors
Operation Magic Carpet
More responsibility, less control
Exercise is the Thing'? Sport and the Asylum c. 1850-1950
Professional Identity across the Borders
Yosef Weitz and the transfer committees, 1948–49
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| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |