Teresa Ordorika Sacristán: Diagnosis and psychiatrization: The case of hysterics in Mexico's mental asylum "La Castañeda"

Abstract

The lecture focused on several issues from the history of diagnosis of mental disorders and especially on an interesting phenomena of the mental asylum "La Castañeda" in Mexico City.

Keywords

• psychiatry
• mental disorders
• hysterics
• mental asylums
• cure
• Mexico City