De binnenhuisarchitecten van de Nederlandse verzorgingsstaat. Menswetenschappers en doorbraak

Abstract

The interior designers of the Dutch welfare state The 'Doorbraak'-movement that emerged in the Netherlands after World War II was first of all a cultural movement. At the political level this movement, that tried to break through the segregated cultural and political relations in Dutch society, had little success. At the cultural level however - that is in fields like education, mental health care, social work and criminal justice - its influence was great. A broad intellectual elite tried to develop a 'personalist' culture. This article focuses on one of the most important centres of this movement, that was formed by the so called 'School of Utrecht'. Its renowned key figures included Willem Pompe, the scholar in criminal law, Ger Kempe, the criminologist and the younger forensic psychiatrist Pieter Baan, but also psychologists like Buytendijk, Van Lennep, the psychiatrists Rümke, Trimbos and Van den Berg and the pedagogue Langeveld.