Forskning vid Centrum för medicinsk humaniora
Acting out Disease - How Patient Organizations Shaped Modern Medicine
This project examines the emergence and central role of patient organizations within the 20th century medical landscape. These organizations include, for example, allergy associations that pushed for the recognition of their condition as a somatic disease around 1900, diabetes associations that helped enable advanced self-care since the 1930s. ActDisease studies how they thereby reshaped medical concepts and roles, helping to expand the scope of medical thought. ActDisease is financed with an ERC Starting Grant and is led by Ylva Söderfeldt.
Mental Heath in Time and Space
This project examines mental health from the perspective of young women and their lived experience. The aim is to investigate how teenage girls and young women themselves understand and define mental illness and mental well-being. The project is part of the UPIC research program and is led by Hanna Ljungvall.
Struggle for mind-cures: The battle of psychological emotion management in Sweden 1969-2000
In 2010, the Swedish health authorities made the decision to exclusively recommend cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT) for anxiety disorders. However, the landscape of psychological therapies was considerably more heterogeneous a generation ago, where Freudian theories, humanistic therapies and cognitive behavioral therapies coexisted. This project aims to historicize this 'psychological turn' in the Swedish context. The project is led by Josephine Selander
