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Book symposium on Historia polskiego szaleństwa
Krystyna Bielecka
University of Warsaw, Poland
kikab.gazeta.pl@gmail.com
The following papers stem from the symposium on Mira Marcinów’s book Historia
pol-skiego szaleństwa [History of Polish Madness], vol. I. The event was organized on June
6, 2018 in the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw and funded from the National Science Centre grant 2016/ 23/ D/ HS1/ 02205 (PI: Krystyna Bielecka).
While the book is only available in Polish, it may be of lively interest to the international community of scholars in the history of psychiatry and clinical psychology, and the history of ideas in general. However, the sheer length of the book makes its translation into Eng-lish in the near future quite unlikely. Therefore, we decided that some of the crucial issues in the book could be simply discussed in English to give at least a preview of its richness to a wider audience. We hope it will contribute to the debate on the significance of the history of psychiatry to the current understanding of mental disorders.
The organizers of the symposium wish to thank the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, for hosting it, and for the speakers and participants for the lively discussion.
The editorial and publishing process of this publication has been financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education from the funds for the dissemination of research (DUN) within the framework of publishing activity, contract no. 711/P-DUN/2019, period of implementation: the years 2019–2020.
