Remembering Psychiatry's Past
The Psychiatric Collection and its Display at Porirua Hospital Museum, New Zealand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2390825 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catharine Coleborne (0000-0002-9289-4755, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-118 |
| Publication date | 2003-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1359183503008001764 |
| OpenAlex | W2036171382 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article explores the historical meanings of a collection of psychiatric objects on display at the Porirua Hospital Museum, at Porirua, near Wellington, in New Zealand. Founded in 1987 to celebrate the original asylum's centenary, the museum commemorates the history of the institution. Its curators are former psychiatric nursing staff. Visitors to the museum include educators, researchers and members of the psychiatric community. This article asks why some people have preserved the 'relics' of past psychiatry. Such collections and museum exhibitions raise fascinating questions about the 20th-century experience of psychiatric institutions, and the role of the museum collection in people's lives. In talking about why and how former staff have struggled to preserve their private memories through collections of physical objects, and by interpreting history inside the space of the museum, the article suggests that historians can make a new contribution to the understandings of psychiatric institutions in histories of 20th-century psychiatry
Art · Art history · Exhibition · History of psychiatry · Institution · Psychiatry · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Historical and Scientific Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Medicine · Museology · Photography and Visual Culture
Routes
Tense Past
The Psychiatric Hospital as a Small Society
On Longing
Mapping the Subject
Collecting in Contemporary Practice
Representing the Nation
Collecting in a Consumer Society
Silent and Censured Travellers
Contemporary Issues in Heritage and Environmental Interpretation
Madness in Its Place
The use and abuse of Australian history
The Culture of the State Mental Hospital
Madness in Australia
Asylums
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |