Dr. Bojan Bilić: "Psihiatrija in družba: Depatriarhalizacija jugoslovanske psihiatrije"

Lepo vabljeni na naslednje predavanje v okviru Zgodovine na Špici, kjer bo dr. Bojan Bilić predaval na temo Psihiatrija in družba: Depatriarhalizacija jugoslovanske psihiatrije. Predavanje bo potekalo dne 14. 5. 2025 ob 13. uri v prostorih INZ ali na ZOOM povezavi: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378.
Predavanje bo v angleškem jeziku.

Psihiatrija in družba: Depatriarhalizacija jugoslovanske psihiatrije

Povzetek
Vprašanje, zakaj se »naša samoupravna psihiatrija« ne znajde občutno bolje – torej ni dosti bolj humana – od tiste, ki jo izvajajo v kapitalističnem svetu?, je bilo vidno zastavljeno na konferenci Psihiatrija in družba, ki jo je Lepa Mlađenović, feministka in vse bolj vidna lezbična aktivistka, organizirala v beograjskem Študentskem kulturnem centru leta 1983. To srečanje – naslovljeno po feministični aktivistični pobudi Žena in družba – je razkrilo močne napetosti na področju duševnega zdravja v socialistični Jugoslaviji in pomenilo prelomni trenutek v zgodovini jugoslovanske psihiatrije. Prvič se je javno razpravljalo o političnih, družbenih in pravnih implikacijah patriarhalne psihiatrične oblasti ter jih obravnavali tudi z vidika samih psihiatričnih bolnikov. Dogodek se je zaključil z izjavo skupine psihiatrov, psihologov in drugih strokovnjakov za duševno zdravje, ki so se strinjali o nujnosti korenite preobrazbe jugoslovanskega psihiatričnega sistema. Konferenca, ki jo poskušam rekonstruirati v svoji predstavitvi, je pomenila impulz za bolj kritičen pristop k psihiatrični praksi, ki bi upošteval (domnevno) privrženost socializma enakosti, pravičnosti in človekovemu dostojanstvu. Vendar, kot se je zgodilo z drugimi emancipacijskimi dosežki socialistične dobe, bo potencial gibanja demokratične psihiatrije, ki je bil že v osemdesetih letih krhek, v naslednjem desetletju okrnjen zaradi uničujoče sile razpada Jugoslavije.

Življenjepis
Bojan Bilić je politični sociolog, ki se ukvarja z raziskavo množičnih odzivov na nacionalizem, patriarhat in avtoritarizem v Jugoslaviji in postjugoslovanskem prostoru. Doslej je pisal o zgodovini in politiki jugoslovanskega feminizma, protivojnem aktivizmu, angažmaju LGBTQ, antropologiji neheteroseksualnosti in spolne variance, LGBTQ-afirmativni psihoterapiji in pobudah za demokratizacijo psihiatrije. Bil je štipendist Lise Meitner na raziskovalni enoti Gender Studies Univerze na Dunaju, izredni profesor za spol in družbena gibanja v jugovzhodni Evropi na Fakulteti za politične vede Univerze v Bologni ter gostujoči predavatelj na Univerzi v Sarajevu in Univerzi v Gradcu.


ENG:
You are kindly invited to the new event of the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, 14 May 2025 at 13:00, at the INZ premises or at the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378
The lecture will be given by Bojan Bilić, and the title of the lecture is “Psychiatry and Society: Depatriarchalising Yugoslav Psychiatry”. The lecture will be held in English.

Psychiatry and Society: Depatriarchalising Yugoslav Psychiatry

Abstract
The question as to why “our self-management psychiatry” does not fare appreciably better – that is to say, is not much more humane – than the one practiced in the capitalist world, figured prominently at the conference Psychiatry and Society which Lepa Mlađenović, a feminist and increasingly visible lesbian activist, organised at the Belgrade Student Cultural Centre in 1983. This gathering – titled after the feminist activist initiative Woman and Society – unveiled strong tensions within the field of mental health care in socialist Yugoslavia and was a marking moment in the history of Yugoslav psychiatry. It was the first time that the political, social, and legal implications of patriarchal psychiatric power were publicly discussed and approached also from the perspective of psychiatric patients. This event finished with a statement by a group of psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals who agreed upon the necessity to radically transform the Yugoslav psychiatric system. The conference, which I begin to reconstruct in my talk, constituted an impulse for a more critical approach to psychiatric practice that would take into consideration socialism’s (alleged) allegiance to equality, justice, and human dignity. However, as was the case with other emancipatory accomplishments of the socialist era, the potential of the democratic psychiatry movement, which was already fragile throughout the 1980s, would in the following decade be truncated by the destructive force of Yugoslavia’s disintegration.

Bio
Bojan Bilić is a political sociologist doing research on a range of grassroots responses to nationalism, patriarchy, and authoritarianism in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav space. So far, he has written about the history and politics of Yugoslav feminism, anti-war activism, LGBTQ engagement, the anthropology of non-heterosexuality and gender variance, LGBTQ-affirmative psychotherapy, and the initiatives for democratising psychiatry. He was a Lise Meitner Fellow at the Research Unit Gender Studies, University of Vienna, an adjunct professor of Gender and Social Movements in South East Europe at the School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Sarajevo and the University of Graz.

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