Journal title RIVISTA SPERIMENTALE DI FRENIATRIA
Author/s Jessica Casaccia
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/1
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 123-142 File size 757 KB
DOI 10.3280/RSF2024-001008
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This study aims to understand the use of photography within psychiatric journals published before 1901 and, in addition, to emphasize its importance in the study of material culture as a critical, educational, and motivational element. The issues of ten Italian periodicals from their founding to 1900 were viewed; the research focused on photographs of individuals, while those depicting microscopic prepared, machinery and asylum facilities were excluded. The study found that the types of photographs taken in support of Italian specialist journals differed quite somewhat from the examples of international pioneers such as Hugh Welch Diamond (1809-1886), Nicolae G. Chernbach (1842-1919) and Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) and from those supporting the activities of Italian asylums: they are not limited to classifying typically psychiatric pathologies, but expand to other types of disorders; this approach seems to be largely due to the influence of Lombrosian studies.
Keywords: Photography, Italy, history of psychiatry, scientific journals, nineteenth century.
Jessica Casaccia, Fotografia e freniatria nell’Ottocento: l’utilizzo della fotografia nelle riviste psichiatriche italiane in "RIVISTA SPERIMENTALE DI FRENIATRIA" 1/2024, pp 123-142, DOI: 10.3280/RSF2024-001008