In this course we will discuss a number of novels and movies in which psychiatric questions play an important role.
At the same time the course also gives insight in the history of psychiatry and in the development of the concept of disease in psychiatry, starting in the early 19th century. The course will start and end with two Saturdays in a former psychiatric institution, in Gent and Haarlem. These institutions are now a museum for the history of psychiatry and for art from psychiatric patients.