Hi to all,
perhaps of interest for some of you.
Best,
Roberto
Source: http://ahp.apps01.yorku.ca/?p=3421
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Date: Wednesday 26 June, 2013
Location: UCL Institute of the Americas, Room 105, 51 Gordon Square,
London WC1H 0PN
Time: 6pm-7.30pm
Speaker: Dr Craig E. Stephenson (AGAP/CPA/CAPT/IAAP)
Seminar Title: ‘The possessions at Loudun: Their significance in the
history of the science of mind’
Abstract: This seminar focuses on the seventeenth-century possessions
at Loudun, France and presents how the events of this famous case
played out at the time and how theorizing about possession and
obsession changed over almost four centuries of writing about them.
For instance, in his definition of demonism for the Schweizer Lexikon
(1945) C.G. Jung referred to the debate about Loudun, as did Gilles de
la Tourette, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, and Jacques Lacan.
Eventually, psychopathology co-opted the word ‘obsession’, stripped of
its religious connotation, and left the word ‘possession’ outside
medical discourse. Then, in 1992, the American Psychiatric Association
attempted to introduce ‘possession’ into its diagnostic manual
(DSM-IV) as a mental disorder. Revisiting the history of Loudun
provides a means for situating the APA’s recent interest in possession
within a medical and intellectual continuum.
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