Time-measurement devices in clinical and experimental settings have historically tended to pathologize mental “slowness” and normalize “speed” as a signifier of mental health.
Drapotemania exemplifies the existence of psychiatric diagnoses rooted in the political stigmatisation of a social group.
Scientific dream theories – as well as traditional oneirocritical discourses – have long kept dreaming outside the historical field.
There are policies of the dream, as illustrated by the different ways of apprehending the dreams in the Amerindian populations.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a nosological classification that has played - and continues to play - a key role in structuring psychiatric care and research.
