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Il dialogo inceppato : note sull'istituzionalizzazione dei disabili relazionali nel frenocomio dell'isola di San Servolo a Venezia, 2013
In a recent book, by Gil Eyal and colleagues, The Autism Matrix, the deinstitutionalization of me... more In a recent book, by Gil Eyal and colleagues, The Autism Matrix, the deinstitutionalization of mental retardation in the sixties is seen as the auroral moment of its emergence. While we were working on autism, we posed ourselves the same questions. Where does the discourse about “autism” come from? What was autism before being “autism”, that is, before its naming by Kanner and Asperger? We also had the perception that the absence of “autism” in the public discourse during the previous decades, had something to do with the institutionalization as a psychiatric problem of what now stays under the name of autism. Therefore, we started a research on the clinical files of the archive of the ex-asylum of Venice, on the island of St. Servolo, to verify that assumption. This research was published in 2013 with the title A se e agli altri: Storia della manicomializzazione dell’autismo e delle altre disabilita relazionali nelle cartelle cliniche di S. Servolo, To him/her/itself and to others:...
Constructing ‘autistic personhoods’: How do ideas about normative childhood and adulthood shape... more Constructing ‘autistic personhoods’: How do ideas about normative childhood and adulthood shape concerns and experiences of autistic children and adults? Autism as neurodiversity: how does public and research discourses of neurology affect our theoretical and conceptual understandings of autism? How can critical autism studies challenge the biomedical construction of autism? Interventions and policy: how do social and policy interventions in the name of autism shape autism services and programs. How are these experienced by recipients of these services? Research methodologies and ethics: critical consideration of research methodologies drawn on when researching autism. How are participatory, emancipatory and research ethics engaged with in autism research? Cultural and artistic representations of autism: an exploration of how autism is depicted in culture through art, film, expression, literature and music.
The book retraces the history of Jean-Jacques Abrahams, L'homme au Magnetophone, from the pub... more The book retraces the history of Jean-Jacques Abrahams, L'homme au Magnetophone, from the publication in Les Temps Modernes to the Italian edition by Elvio Fachinelli to the present time.
Trauma and Memory, Feb 16, 2014
The Greek term ἰδιώτης was used to indicate someone who looked after his or her own affairs witho... more The Greek term ἰδιώτης was used to indicate someone who looked after his or her own affairs without taking an interest in the management of the polis, and originally held none of the decidedly negative connotations we ascribe to it today. From the twentieth century onwards, various attempts have been made at identifying and measuring idiocy in the name of world sanitization, still a pervasive phenomenon at the present time, albeit with differing terminology. Following through from this, stories unravel of dramatic intolerance in the guise of research. Stories in which clinical and racist interests underlie the formulation of disturbing scientific hypotheses. Such accounts should not be considered simply in a historical context, as if such matters have now been superceded. They show, instead, that in one way or another those things that happened in the last century still take place today, although the modality may have changed. Coercion and authoritarianism, tenacity and instructions are iatrogenic. Due to a particular trait of the world of mental life, the reflective self, the mind may react in ways that are relentlessly paradoxical. Radically disobedient in the face of impositions, or, on the other hand, paradoxically understanding, able to drive the authoritarian principle to the most extreme consequences. The following work should be placed in the context of tendencies in research that have already produced interesting observations and noteworthy results (
Studi Culturali, 2006
... Trasgredendo «la gerarchia sociale delle pratiche e degli oggetti», Bourdieu afferma di propo... more ... Trasgredendo «la gerarchia sociale delle pratiche e degli oggetti», Bourdieu afferma di proporsi «la ... atti rituali dei contadini cabili o delle operazioni di valutazione dei professori o dei critici mi avevano in-segnato a proposito della logica specifica del senso pratico, di cui il ...
Journal of Medicine and the Person, 2015
The authors are developing a broad spectrum research on autism’s history and its prehistory. Retr... more The authors are developing a broad spectrum research on autism’s history and its prehistory. Retracing its genesis allows us to contextualize, in a proper way, the interesting phenomenum of the amazing cultural exposure of this psychiatric category, raised in a few decades from the status of a rare condition to its current public overexposure. The diagnostic proliferation of autism has turned relational disability into a hype, around which etiologies have been developed, along with methodologies of intervention, different and at times opposite theoretical approaches, but also, in a broader sense, a proliferation in cultural productions. The starting point of the present research are Foucault’s genealogy and the history of psychiatric knowledge/power, and place itself in the trail of the researches on autism developed by Ian Hacking, who dedicated in 2004 a course at the College de France to autism, and many other works in the following years. One activity carried out in the elaborat...
When we started working on autism, the first thing we asked ourselves was, what was autism before... more When we started working on autism, the first thing we asked ourselves was, what was autism before 1943, that is, the date of birth of the disease? Since human difference replicates statistically in a regular way, people in the same condition always existed, object (or not) of social, cultural and medical attention. Since we are interested into history of psychiatry, we started a research project on thousands of clinical files on the archive of the ex-psychiatric asylum in the island of San Servolo, in Venice, from 1874 to 1939, to see how autism, in its whole spectrum, was treated. So in our talk we will contextualize the pre-history of autism as institutionalization, a theme that is at the core of Gil Eyal’s The Autism Matrix, focusing on the findings of our research on San Servolo’s clinical files.
Despite its removal from the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Dis... more Despite its removal from the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Asperger’s Syndrome remains the subject of an extraordinary cultural overexposition. The present text aims to question the AS diagnosis as diagnosis, turning back to the matrix of all the discourses that proliferated from it. The piece addresses diagnosis as classification first—the characterization of the syndrome according to the formulation of clinical semiotics, evolving over time—and then diagnosis as event: inscription recasting the perception of one’s existence. Related to this introjection of the diagnostic moment, in specific ways, AS is then analyzed from the point of view of individual interpellation, that proceeds from the inscription in the condition, picking up some Althusserian suggestions.
Our presentation will be centered on the intriguing schizophrenic writer Louis Wolfson. His books... more Our presentation will be centered on the intriguing schizophrenic writer Louis Wolfson. His books are something to be set apart from every other kind of literary production; and his life is absolutely incredible.
In terapia dall'età di quattordici anni, a trenta, dopo tre di sospensione, Jean-Jacques Abra... more In terapia dall'età di quattordici anni, a trenta, dopo tre di sospensione, Jean-Jacques Abrahams torna dal suo analista con un magnetofono. Questi si oppone energicamente alla presenza dell'orecchio meccanico, ne segue un violento scontro verbale e l'invio di Abrahams a un'istituzione psichiatrica. Fuggito calandosi dal terzo piano del manicomio, trascrive il testo registrato con il magnetofono e lo manda a Sartre, che lo pubblica su "Les Temps Modernes", con repliche stizzite di Pontalis e Pingaud. Questo l'inizio della storia. Negli anni Settanta Abrahams, sull'onda della notorietà acquisita, pubblica un volume di scritti. Nel 1977 lo psicoanalista milanese Elvio Fachinelli pubblica il dialogo aggiungendo un proprio intervento a quelli già apparsi in "Les Temps Modernes". Abrahams compare inoltre citato, con l'amica Sophie Podolski, nelle opere di Roberto Bolaño. Questo volume è una tappa ulteriore della fortuna di Jean-Jacques Abra...
Studi culturali, 2006
... partecipazione sociale attiva. Sempre più tale crescente marginalizzazione porta a considerar... more ... partecipazione sociale attiva. Sempre più tale crescente marginalizzazione porta a considerare le per-sone disabili come un problema sociale ed educativo, quindi all'istituzione di laboratori protetti, asili e scuole speciali. La ricognizione ...
Journal of Medicine and the Person, 2015
Il dialogo inceppato : note sull'istituzionalizzazione dei disabili relazionali nel frenocomio dell'isola di San Servolo a Venezia, 2013
In a recent book, by Gil Eyal and colleagues, The Autism Matrix, the deinstitutionalization of me... more In a recent book, by Gil Eyal and colleagues, The Autism Matrix, the deinstitutionalization of mental retardation in the sixties is seen as the auroral moment of its emergence. While we were working on autism, we posed ourselves the same questions. Where does the discourse about “autism” come from? What was autism before being “autism”, that is, before its naming by Kanner and Asperger? We also had the perception that the absence of “autism” in the public discourse during the previous decades, had something to do with the institutionalization as a psychiatric problem of what now stays under the name of autism. Therefore, we started a research on the clinical files of the archive of the ex-asylum of Venice, on the island of St. Servolo, to verify that assumption. This research was published in 2013 with the title A se e agli altri: Storia della manicomializzazione dell’autismo e delle altre disabilita relazionali nelle cartelle cliniche di S. Servolo, To him/her/itself and to others:...
Constructing ‘autistic personhoods’: How do ideas about normative childhood and adulthood shape... more Constructing ‘autistic personhoods’: How do ideas about normative childhood and adulthood shape concerns and experiences of autistic children and adults? Autism as neurodiversity: how does public and research discourses of neurology affect our theoretical and conceptual understandings of autism? How can critical autism studies challenge the biomedical construction of autism? Interventions and policy: how do social and policy interventions in the name of autism shape autism services and programs. How are these experienced by recipients of these services? Research methodologies and ethics: critical consideration of research methodologies drawn on when researching autism. How are participatory, emancipatory and research ethics engaged with in autism research? Cultural and artistic representations of autism: an exploration of how autism is depicted in culture through art, film, expression, literature and music.
The book retraces the history of Jean-Jacques Abrahams, L'homme au Magnetophone, from the pub... more The book retraces the history of Jean-Jacques Abrahams, L'homme au Magnetophone, from the publication in Les Temps Modernes to the Italian edition by Elvio Fachinelli to the present time.
Trauma and Memory, Feb 16, 2014
The Greek term ἰδιώτης was used to indicate someone who looked after his or her own affairs witho... more The Greek term ἰδιώτης was used to indicate someone who looked after his or her own affairs without taking an interest in the management of the polis, and originally held none of the decidedly negative connotations we ascribe to it today. From the twentieth century onwards, various attempts have been made at identifying and measuring idiocy in the name of world sanitization, still a pervasive phenomenon at the present time, albeit with differing terminology. Following through from this, stories unravel of dramatic intolerance in the guise of research. Stories in which clinical and racist interests underlie the formulation of disturbing scientific hypotheses. Such accounts should not be considered simply in a historical context, as if such matters have now been superceded. They show, instead, that in one way or another those things that happened in the last century still take place today, although the modality may have changed. Coercion and authoritarianism, tenacity and instructions are iatrogenic. Due to a particular trait of the world of mental life, the reflective self, the mind may react in ways that are relentlessly paradoxical. Radically disobedient in the face of impositions, or, on the other hand, paradoxically understanding, able to drive the authoritarian principle to the most extreme consequences. The following work should be placed in the context of tendencies in research that have already produced interesting observations and noteworthy results (
Studi Culturali, 2006
... Trasgredendo «la gerarchia sociale delle pratiche e degli oggetti», Bourdieu afferma di propo... more ... Trasgredendo «la gerarchia sociale delle pratiche e degli oggetti», Bourdieu afferma di proporsi «la ... atti rituali dei contadini cabili o delle operazioni di valutazione dei professori o dei critici mi avevano in-segnato a proposito della logica specifica del senso pratico, di cui il ...
Journal of Medicine and the Person, 2015
The authors are developing a broad spectrum research on autism’s history and its prehistory. Retr... more The authors are developing a broad spectrum research on autism’s history and its prehistory. Retracing its genesis allows us to contextualize, in a proper way, the interesting phenomenum of the amazing cultural exposure of this psychiatric category, raised in a few decades from the status of a rare condition to its current public overexposure. The diagnostic proliferation of autism has turned relational disability into a hype, around which etiologies have been developed, along with methodologies of intervention, different and at times opposite theoretical approaches, but also, in a broader sense, a proliferation in cultural productions. The starting point of the present research are Foucault’s genealogy and the history of psychiatric knowledge/power, and place itself in the trail of the researches on autism developed by Ian Hacking, who dedicated in 2004 a course at the College de France to autism, and many other works in the following years. One activity carried out in the elaborat...
When we started working on autism, the first thing we asked ourselves was, what was autism before... more When we started working on autism, the first thing we asked ourselves was, what was autism before 1943, that is, the date of birth of the disease? Since human difference replicates statistically in a regular way, people in the same condition always existed, object (or not) of social, cultural and medical attention. Since we are interested into history of psychiatry, we started a research project on thousands of clinical files on the archive of the ex-psychiatric asylum in the island of San Servolo, in Venice, from 1874 to 1939, to see how autism, in its whole spectrum, was treated. So in our talk we will contextualize the pre-history of autism as institutionalization, a theme that is at the core of Gil Eyal’s The Autism Matrix, focusing on the findings of our research on San Servolo’s clinical files.
Despite its removal from the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Dis... more Despite its removal from the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Asperger’s Syndrome remains the subject of an extraordinary cultural overexposition. The present text aims to question the AS diagnosis as diagnosis, turning back to the matrix of all the discourses that proliferated from it. The piece addresses diagnosis as classification first—the characterization of the syndrome according to the formulation of clinical semiotics, evolving over time—and then diagnosis as event: inscription recasting the perception of one’s existence. Related to this introjection of the diagnostic moment, in specific ways, AS is then analyzed from the point of view of individual interpellation, that proceeds from the inscription in the condition, picking up some Althusserian suggestions.
Our presentation will be centered on the intriguing schizophrenic writer Louis Wolfson. His books... more Our presentation will be centered on the intriguing schizophrenic writer Louis Wolfson. His books are something to be set apart from every other kind of literary production; and his life is absolutely incredible.
In terapia dall'età di quattordici anni, a trenta, dopo tre di sospensione, Jean-Jacques Abra... more In terapia dall'età di quattordici anni, a trenta, dopo tre di sospensione, Jean-Jacques Abrahams torna dal suo analista con un magnetofono. Questi si oppone energicamente alla presenza dell'orecchio meccanico, ne segue un violento scontro verbale e l'invio di Abrahams a un'istituzione psichiatrica. Fuggito calandosi dal terzo piano del manicomio, trascrive il testo registrato con il magnetofono e lo manda a Sartre, che lo pubblica su "Les Temps Modernes", con repliche stizzite di Pontalis e Pingaud. Questo l'inizio della storia. Negli anni Settanta Abrahams, sull'onda della notorietà acquisita, pubblica un volume di scritti. Nel 1977 lo psicoanalista milanese Elvio Fachinelli pubblica il dialogo aggiungendo un proprio intervento a quelli già apparsi in "Les Temps Modernes". Abrahams compare inoltre citato, con l'amica Sophie Podolski, nelle opere di Roberto Bolaño. Questo volume è una tappa ulteriore della fortuna di Jean-Jacques Abra...
Studi culturali, 2006
... partecipazione sociale attiva. Sempre più tale crescente marginalizzazione porta a considerar... more ... partecipazione sociale attiva. Sempre più tale crescente marginalizzazione porta a considerare le per-sone disabili come un problema sociale ed educativo, quindi all'istituzione di laboratori protetti, asili e scuole speciali. La ricognizione ...
Journal of Medicine and the Person, 2015