Alex DeightonM.A. Student
Thesis Title: “The Last Asylum: Experiencing the Weyburn Mental Hospital, 1921-1939”
Fields of Expertise: Prairie History; History of Psychiatry and Mental Health
Thesis Descriptions: My thesis examines the Weyburn Mental Hospital during the interwar years. While much of the Western world searched for alternatives to large, overcrowded mental hospitals, Saskatchewan retained faith in the “promise of the asylum.” My work explores the relationship between the hospital and the surrounding community in order to explain how the public was able to sustain an idealized view of the hospital despite the grim reality of patient experiences. In an effort to write a patient-centered history of the hospital, my work draws attention to the plight of patients and their families as they navigated a mental health system that consistently prioritized politics, cost cutting, and maintaining an attractive public image over patient care.
Publications:
Deighton, Alex. “Urban Poverty During the Depression and Saskatoon's Broadway Bridge.” Folklore, Spring 2012: 44-46.
Conferences Presentations:
Deighton, Alex. ‘Among the finest institutional buildings on the continent’: Optimism and Celebration at the Opening of the Weyburn Mental Hospital. Canadian Society for the History of Medicine Annual Conference/Congress 2014, Brock University, May 2014.
Email: ald046@mail.usask.ca
Erin Gallagher-CalhoonM.A. Student
Thesis Title: Forgotten Bodies: Prostitution and the U.S. Public Health Service Inoculation Study in Guatemala, 1946-1948
Fields of Expertise: History of Medicine, History of Sexuality, Gender History, 20th Century American History
Thesis Description: In 1947 at least 14 Guatemalan prostitutes, known to be infected with venereal diseases, were hired by American medical researchers to engage in sexual intercourse with prisoners and soldiers. These women were one of the non-consenting and often overlooked subjects of the Guatemala Inoculation Study, a human experiment that tested venereal disease prevention among vulnerable populations in Guatemala. This thesis will focus on the experiences of prostitutes within the Guatemalan context. I will concentrate on the power dynamics between the prostitutes and the medical researchers, and on the American and Guatemalan perceptions of prostitution.
Publications:
"The Dirt on 'White Slavery': The Construction of Prostitution Narratives in Early Twentieth-Century American Newspapers," Constellations Journal 5, no. 1 (2013).
"Illegal Loves and Sexual Deviancy: Homosexuality as a Threat in Cold War Canada, " Constellations Journal 4, no. 2 (2013).
"Reviewing Sexual Norms in Historiography: A Book Review of Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945,"
Conferences/Presentations:
"Disposable Bodies: Interconnections in the Histories of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Medicine, " Fort Garry Lectures, University of Manitoba & University of Winnipeg, May 1-3, 2014.
"Sex and Violence: World War II Venereal Disease Prevention Propaganda," Foothills Colloquium in Undergraduate History, Mount Royal University, April 29-30, 2014.
"See No Evil: Medical Photographs from the Records of Dr. John C. Cutler," History of Medicine Day, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, March 29, 2014.
"Racialized Bodies, Racist Policies: Indigenismo and Mestizajein post-revolutionary Mexico," Richard Frucht Memorial Student Conference, University of Alberta, March 6, 2014.
"Doctors of Nations, Bodies of Men: The American Historiography of Human Experiments," Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Alberta, November 22nd, 2013.
"The Silent Worker at War: How the Deaf Community Re-Conceptualized Health and Citizenship," Connections and Communities in Health and Medicine, Manitoba-Northwest Ontario-Minnesota-Saskatchewan & Society for the Social History of Medicine Postgraduate/ Early Career History of Medicine Conference, University of Saskatchewan, September 12th-14th, 2013.
“Monthly Murder and Raging Hormones: the Construction of Premenstrual Syndrome in the 1980s," History of Medicine Day, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, March 23rd, 2013; presentation was awarded Best Undergraduate Paper.
Email: erg388@mail.usask.ca
Adam Montgomery
PhD Candidate, History of Medicine
I hold a BA and MA in history from McMaster University. My broad area of interest is the history of psychiatry. During my MA, my research focused on psychiatric legislation and practice in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and India throughout the Victorian period.
My PhD research involves examining the connection between changes in psychiatric epistemology across the mid to late twentieth century and how mental disorder has been conceptualized, received, and altered in medical and non-medical circles. Using Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Canada from 1980 onward as a case study, my study looks at how conceptions of mental disorder are shaped, and what actors/groups are involved, as well as the degree of agency exerted by each.
The main questions I aim to answer are: How has psychiatry changed with the rise of biotechnologies? What can changes in how psychological trauma is conceptualized tell us about how mental disorders have been treated by physicians and non-physicians? What role has been played by news media and other cultural sources in disseminating this information? What can this history allows us to infer about the future of psychiatry and mental health in Canada and North America?
Research Interests: Nineteenth and twentieth century psychiatry; psychoanalytic ideas of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung; biological psychiatry; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; history of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), particularly DSM-III (1980); philosophies/conceptualizations of “mind” and brain.
Conference Proceedings:
Adam Montgomery and Dr. Lucas Richert. “Osmond’s Interview: Schizophrenia, Sixties Psychiatry, and the Jungian Typology.” Paper presented at the “Psychoanalysis and Culture: Legacies of Freud” conference, organized by the Canadian Network for Psychoanalysis and Culture, and conducted 20-22 September, 2013. Paper presented at the University of Toronto, 21 September, 2013.
Research Contributions:
Journal Article. Adam Montgomery and Dr. Lucas Richert. “Osmond’s Interview: Schizophrenia, Sixties Psychiatry, and the Jungian Typology.”
Article currently being revised for re-submission to Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Essay. “Introduction.” Co-authored with Dr. Erika Dyck and Dr. Larry Stewart (eds) The Uses of Humans in Experiment, 1660-2000 (Chicago, University of Chicago Press) in process.
Book Review. Nicolas Langlitz. Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2013. Review accepted for publication in Gesnerus: Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences, forthcoming issue in late 2013; 2 pages in length.
Other Professional Activities:
Over the past year I have been involved in the editing of a manuscript on the history of psychiatry in Saskatchewan. As part of my Research Assistant work for Dr. Dyck, this project has involved co-editing a completed manuscript by a deceased psychologist for future publication. Dr. Dyck and I are currently working with McGill-Queen’s University Press, who originally reviewed the manuscript with its author.
Blaine Wickham
PhD (ABD)
Dissertation Title: Into the Void: The Mental Asylum on the Frontier in Canada and the United States, 1870-1930
Fields of Expertise: United States; Medicine; Mental Health; Science; Institutions with an emphasis on the mental hospital.
Dissertation Description: My work looks at the mental asylum as a nation-building tool. Taking a cross-border comparison approach, it looks at how Saskatchewan and Washington State used the asylum to help shape their ideal society on the frontier. Moreover, by focusing on these two western governments, the dissertation will show that their asylums did not progress at the same rate as others in their respective countries. These institutions did not attempt, nor were they always able to meet eastern asylums in all their therapeutic ideals. Rather, I will argue that much local and regional ideology influenced and shaped the asylum and its role in making the “ideal” society.
Publications:
Review of Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight, by Linda V. Carlisle. In History of Psychiatry 23, no. 3 (Sept. 2011).
“Mitchell, Robert Menzies” In Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Nov., 2012.
“Saskatchewan Hospital, North Battleford Heritage Project.” Submitted to the Provincial Government of Saskatchewan, Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport, Heritage Conservation Branch. Sept. 30, 2012. Can be viewed online at: http://www.pcs.gov.sk.ca/%5CSaskHosp.
“Valley View Centre Heritage Report.” Submitted to the Provincial Government of Saskatchewan, Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport, Heritage Conservation Branch. Sept. 30, 2012. Can be viewed online at: http://www.pcs.gov.sk.ca/VVC
With Lucas Richert, “Sports and Recreation as Medicinal: Saskatchewan Hospital Weyburn, in the 1950s.” Saskatchewan History 65, no. 1. (Spring/Summer, 2013).
Review of The Lobotomy Letters: The Making of American Psychosurgery, by Mical Raz. In History of Psychiatry 25, no. 3 (March 2014).
With Matthew Neufeld, “The state, the people and the care of sick and injured sailors in late Stuart England.” Social History of Medicine. Forthcoming.Adam Montgomery
PhD Candidate, History of Medicine
I hold a BA and MA in history from McMaster University. My broad area of interest is the history of psychiatry. During my MA, my research focused on psychiatric legislation and practice in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and India throughout the Victorian period.
My PhD research involves examining the connection between changes in psychiatric epistemology across the mid to late twentieth century and how mental disorder has been conceptualized, received, and altered in medical and non-medical circles. Using Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Canada from 1980 onward as a case study, my study looks at how conceptions of mental disorder are shaped, and what actors/groups are involved, as well as the degree of agency exerted by each.
The main questions I aim to answer are: How has psychiatry changed with the rise of biotechnologies? What can changes in how psychological trauma is conceptualized tell us about how mental disorders have been treated by physicians and non-physicians? What role has been played by news media and other cultural sources in disseminating this information? What can this history allows us to infer about the future of psychiatry and mental health in Canada and North America?
Research Interests: Nineteenth and twentieth century psychiatry; psychoanalytic ideas of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung; biological psychiatry; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; history of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), particularly DSM-III (1980); philosophies/conceptualizations of “mind” and brain.
Conference Proceedings:
Adam Montgomery and Dr. Lucas Richert. “Osmond’s Interview: Schizophrenia, Sixties Psychiatry, and the Jungian Typology.” Paper presented at the “Psychoanalysis and Culture: Legacies of Freud” conference, organized by the Canadian Network for Psychoanalysis and Culture, and conducted 20-22 September, 2013. Paper presented at the University of Toronto, 21 September, 2013.
Research Contributions:
Journal Article. Adam Montgomery and Dr. Lucas Richert. “Osmond’s Interview: Schizophrenia, Sixties Psychiatry, and the Jungian Typology.”
Article currently being revised for re-submission to Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Essay. “Introduction.” Co-authored with Dr. Erika Dyck and Dr. Larry Stewart (eds) The Uses of Humans in Experiment, 1660-2000 (Chicago, University of Chicago Press) in process.
Book Review. Nicolas Langlitz. Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2013. Review accepted for publication in Gesnerus: Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences, forthcoming issue in late 2013; 2 pages in length.
Other Professional Activities:
Over the past year I have been involved in the editing of a manuscript on the history of psychiatry in Saskatchewan. As part of my Research Assistant work for Dr. Dyck, this project has involved co-editing a completed manuscript by a deceased psychologist for future publication. Dr. Dyck and I are currently working with McGill-Queen’s University Press, who originally reviewed the manuscript with its author.
Blaine WickhamPhD (ABD)
Dissertation Title: Into the Void: The Mental Asylum on the Frontier in Canada and the United States, 1870-1930
Fields of Expertise: United States; Medicine; Mental Health; Science; Institutions with an emphasis on the mental hospital.
Dissertation Description: My work looks at the mental asylum as a nation-building tool. Taking a cross-border comparison approach, it looks at how Saskatchewan and Washington State used the asylum to help shape their ideal society on the frontier. Moreover, by focusing on these two western governments, the dissertation will show that their asylums did not progress at the same rate as others in their respective countries. These institutions did not attempt, nor were they always able to meet eastern asylums in all their therapeutic ideals. Rather, I will argue that much local and regional ideology influenced and shaped the asylum and its role in making the “ideal” society.
Publications:
Review of Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight, by Linda V. Carlisle. In History of Psychiatry 23, no. 3 (Sept. 2011).
“Mitchell, Robert Menzies” In Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Nov., 2012.
“Saskatchewan Hospital, North Battleford Heritage Project.” Submitted to the Provincial Government of Saskatchewan, Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport, Heritage Conservation Branch. Sept. 30, 2012. Can be viewed online at: http://www.pcs.gov.sk.ca/%5CSaskHosp.
“Valley View Centre Heritage Report.” Submitted to the Provincial Government of Saskatchewan, Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport, Heritage Conservation Branch. Sept. 30, 2012. Can be viewed online at: http://www.pcs.gov.sk.ca/VVC
With Lucas Richert, “Sports and Recreation as Medicinal: Saskatchewan Hospital Weyburn, in the 1950s.” Saskatchewan History 65, no. 1. (Spring/Summer, 2013).
Review of The Lobotomy Letters: The Making of American Psychosurgery, by Mical Raz. In History of Psychiatry 25, no. 3 (March 2014).
Select Conference Presenations:
“‘Insane and Dangerous to be at Large:’ The Medicalization of Insanity in Saskatchewan,” presented at Minnesota, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan (MOMS) Conference. Winnipeg, Manitoba. September 23, 2012.
“Perceiving Exercise: How Saskatchewan’s Two Mental Hospitals Embraced Patient Recreation,” presented at Minnesota, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan (MOMS) and Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) Conference. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. September 13, 2013.
“‘It is bad for a…person to be idle’: A Look into Patient Labor at Saskatchewan, North Battleford Mental Hospital,” presented at American Association of the History of Medicine (AAHM) Conference. Chicago, Illinois. May 10, 2014.
Email: blaine.wickham@usask.ca
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