Profile: Dr Bourne's identity –credit where credit's due

Pimm, Jonathan

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“…It should be noted that this information is not trustworthy, since many patients suffered/suffer severe adverse effects of medicines and other treatments, and other were/are not helped at all (Bentall, 2009; Breggin, 2006). Långbro Hospital presents insulin coma treatment as a “ controlled ” method that “ cured many severely ill ” and assumes that improvement was “ a result of the engagement in their illness, humanity, and empathy, more than the insulin treatment in itself .” Don Weitz (2004), psychiatric survivor and activist, was given insulin treatment in the 1950s and described it as “ being tortured .” Moreover, insulin coma was not supported by scientific evidence, and psychiatrists expressed concern about the dangerousness and oppressive nature of the method already by then (Pimm, 2014).…”

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“…Don Weitz (2004), psychiatric survivor and activist, was given insulin treatment in the 1950s and described it as "being tortured." Moreover, insulin coma was not supported by scientific evidence, and psychiatrists expressed concern about the dangerousness and oppressive nature of the method already by then (Pimm, 2014).…”

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Långbro Hospital, Sweden—From Psychiatric Institution to Digital Museum: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Punzi

2021

Space and Culture

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Sites of oppression might be remembered in ways that contribute to dialogues about human rights and justice, exemplified by Sites of Conscience. Oppression was commonplace in former psychiatric institutions, yet such institutions are often subject to strategic forgetting and transformed into business parks, hotels, or residential areas. This article concerns Långbro Hospital, a digital museum presenting the former psychiatric institution Långbro, Sweden, now transformed into a residential area. I discuss how the former institution becomes a digital nonplace in which patients tend to be objectified or excluded, and the park and the buildings in which oppression occurred are reduced to representing beauty and functionality. I relate the analysis to digital Sites of Conscience such as British Museum of Colonialism and Pennhurst Memorial and Preservation Alliance and, thereby, show that thoughtful digitization might recognize prior as well as current injustice and oppression and contribute to change.

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Långbro Hospital, Sweden—From Psychiatric Institution to Digital Museum: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Punzi

2021

Space and Culture

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“…The author, Harold Bourne, was a junior doctor at the time, and the paper involves a long and substantial presentation of the inadequacy of the evidence in support of insulin and of the superiority of ECT. Although later historical accounts frequently refer to the paper as being a landmark publication in shifting psychiatric opinion away from the widespread use of insulin coma therapy (Pimm, 2014), Bourne's arguments had already been expressed in the published literature. Like earlier critics, he highlighted how many studies of insulin therapy involved small numbers of patients, had no proper comparator group, were not blinded, and that there were no standardized definitions of schizophrenia itself or of recovery.…”

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‘A landmark in psychiatric progress’? The role of evidence in the rise and fall of insulin coma therapy

Freudenthal

2021

Hist Psychiatry

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This paper examines the evidence behind the use and decline of insulin coma therapy as a treatment for schizophrenia and how this was viewed by the psychiatric profession. The paper demonstrates that, from the time of its introduction, there was considerable debate regarding the evidence for insulin treatment, and scepticism about its purported benefits. The randomized trials conducted in the 1950s were the result, rather than the origins, of this debate. Although insulin treatment was subsequently abandoned, it was still regarded as a historic moment in the modernization of psychiatry. Then, as now, evidence does not speak for itself, and insulin continued to be incorporated into the story of psychiatric progress even after it was shown to be ineffective.

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Insulin coma therapy

Gibson¹

2014

Psychiatr. Bull.

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Profile: Dr Bourne's identity –credit where credit's due

Cited by 4 publications

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Långbro Hospital, Sweden—From Psychiatric Institution to Digital Museum: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Långbro Hospital, Sweden—From Psychiatric Institution to Digital Museum: A Critical Discourse Analysis

‘A landmark in psychiatric progress’? The role of evidence in the rise and fall of insulin coma therapy

Insulin coma therapy

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