Ithaca College

Jonathan Ablard, Associate Professor of History, presented a keynote address to the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Mental Health: Treatments for Insanity throughout History (Seminario Interdisciplinario en Salud Mental: Los tratamientos de la locura a lo largo de la historia), at the National Autonomous University of Mexico September 29-October 1, 2010.

Jonathan Ablard presented a keynote address to the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Mental Health: Treatments for Insanity throughout History (Seminario Interdisciplinario en Salud Mental: Los tratamientos de la locura a lo largo de la historia), September 29-October 1, 2010.

The Seminar was sponsored by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Mora Institute.

His address, "The Problem of the Non-Institutionalized Insane in the Americas" (Locos sueltos: el problema de los locos no institutionalizados en las Américas) examined the ways in which psychiatrists throughout the hemisphere conceptualized the "problem" of people deemed in need of institutionalization. His address focused on the cases of Argentina, the United States, and Colombia, and considers how immigration, race, and social chaos contributed to how doctors thought about this amorphous, and often imaginary, population.

To see the conference program, go to http://www.mora.edu.mx/Vinculacion/Difusion/Lists/EventosExternos/Attachments/4/programatratamientolocura.pdf