时间：2023年9月25日 13:00-14:30

地点：静园一院201

报告人：Yang Fuge (杨馥阁) 剑桥大学科学史与科学哲学系研究生

题目：以商业职业化来建立信誉：魏鸿声治疗院与晚期民国精神学（1927 – 1937）

Professionalisation through commerce: establishing jingshenxue as a legitimate psychiatric treatment in Republican China (1927 – 1937)

摘要：

1933年至1937年间，魏宏声治疗院在北平市出版了三份精神治疗实验问答。该院的创始人魏鸿声融合了气功，催眠术，道教，佛教以及儒家传统理论创立精神健康十步功夫，并将其

应用到精神类疾病以及其他疑难杂症的治疗中。二十世纪初，精神病治疗市场鱼龙混杂，魏鸿声依托鸿声治疗院以及出版的治疗问答将其精神学说专业化和制度化，以尝试建立信誉。尽管三份实验问答均以传统的格物思想验证精神学，接受此治疗的患者仍以“神乎其神”等象征神秘主义的词语来赞美治疗院。由此可见，虽然魏鸿声尝试了专业化，但其精神学说仍处于“另类”地位，必须表现出非凡才能证明其专业的性质。

Examining a set of three booklets published by the private Wei Hongsheng Psychopathic Hospital, this is a historical investigation of psychiatry in early twentieth century China. The founder of the

hospital, Wei Hongsheng, promoted the use of jingshenxue (精神学) to treat mentally ill patients. It

was a practice that utilised qigong and hypnosis techniques to treat psychiatric conditions and other

complex medical cases. I examine how Wei tried to establish jingshenxue as the authoritative practice in a private psychiatric market that was crowded with fraudulent and inexperienced providers. The commercial incentive drove Wei to professionalise jingshenxue in a way that was hybrid and full of inherent tensions. He relied on traditional ideas of organising, sorting and vetting to validate jingshenxue practices and institutionalised it through the Hongsheng Psychopathic Hospital. It was juxtaposed to an appeal to mysticism, where praise of jingshenxue treatments’ miraculous nature continued to be a common trope in the individual patient accounts. This inner tension indicates the ‘alternative’ status of Wei’s practice despite his efforts to professionalise, where jingshenxue had to be exceptional to prove the legitimacy of its professional status.

个人简介：

杨馥阁，本科毕业于华威大学历史系，现为剑桥大学科学史与科学哲学系（HPS）研究生，北京大学科学技术与医学史系访问学生。主攻研究内容为从民间角度去研究民国精神心理学史，并且以跨学科方式研究精神学与性别史，思想史的结合。