{"id":5427,"date":"2018-03-26T13:36:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2022-01-10T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T10:44:32","slug":"danae-karydaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/danae-karydaki\/","title":{"rendered":"“Island of the Pariahs: the History of the Leros Psychiatric Hospital (1957-1995)”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Research Proposal<\/span>Conference<\/span>Research Results<\/span>Short Bio<\/span>Publications<\/span><\/div>
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Summary of the Research Proposal<\/h4>\n

The aim of my research proposal is to produce the first systematic historical account of the Leros Psychiatric Hospital (LPH), from its establishment in 1957, until 1995, when the first stage of its deinstitutionalisation was completed due to the actions of the Group of Leros. So far, attempts to produce such an account have only been made by psy-professionals. Hence, the first systematic historical account of the LPH, important as it is in its own right, will come to complement the social, political, and cultural history of Greece in the second half of the 20th century, as well as the very history of European psychiatry. Within this framework, my research proposal seeks to draw on a range of unexamined primary sources and secondary literature, in order to provide a narrative centred around three key topics: (a) What were the practices, policies and living conditions in the LPH in different historical periods? What are the similarities and differences with other Greek mental hospitals of the time, and how have the actions of the Group of Leros contributed to the reform of Greek psychiatry? (b) How can the LPH and the Group of Leros be historicized in the broader social, cultural, and political framework of 20th-century Greece? (c) What does the history of the LPH and the Group of Leros add to a comparative history of European psychiatry?<\/p>\n

This\u00a0<\/em>research project was funded by the Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH), with the support of the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation.
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To view the conference\u2019s program in Greek, click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The research results of the program “Island of the Pariahs: the History of the Leros Psychiatric Hospital (1957-1995)”, by Danae Karydaki
\nhave been published in Greek by RCH Digital Library<\/a>, as part of the journal PIXELS@humanities<\/a><\/strong>,
\nin the volume\u00a0Research Results<\/span>\u00a02018: <\/span>epistemology \u2013 space \u2013 health \u2013 history<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the article in Greek here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Danae Karydaki<\/strong> was born in Athens in 1988. She is a 20th -century historian interested in historiography, social history of psychiatry, history of psychoanalysis, gender history, history of violence, history of human rights, and medical humanities. Her post-doc research, conducted under the auspices of RCH, focuses on the history of the Leros Psychiatric Hospital (1957-1995) in the context of 20th century social, cultural, and political history of Greece. She completed her PhD on post-war British historiography of mass violence with a special focus on the use of \u2018psy\u2019-theories in the study of history at Birkbeck, University of London, where she also worked as a teaching assistant at the Departments of History and Politics. She has published articles and book reviews in several journals and edited volumes and she is now preparing her monograph \u201cThe Meaning of Evil: History and Psychoanalysis in the Columbus Centre (1961-1981)\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Selected Publications<\/h4>\n