A new issue of the periodical Genèses is now out. Its central theme is “Medicalisation” and it includes three articles… Read more New issue: Genèses
Month: June 2011
Dangerous Method
David Cronenberg has made a movie about Freud, Jung, Otto Gross and Sabina Spielrein. The trailer has just been released:… Read more Dangerous Method
“Quantified Selfers”: The Future of Psychological Enhancement?
Financial Times this month featured an article entitled “Invasion of the Body Hackers” by April Dembosky. The piece examines the first-ever… Read more “Quantified Selfers”: The Future of Psychological Enhancement?
Hugh Freeman, 1930-2011
HUGH FREEMAN, 1930-2011 Obituaries have just been published of the psychiatrist and historian, Hugh Freeman, who died on the 4th… Read more Hugh Freeman, 1930-2011
New article in the NYRB: “The Illusions of Psychiatry”
The New York Review of Books contains an article by Marcia Angell dealing with psychiatry and its history. The piece,… Read more New article in the NYRB: “The Illusions of Psychiatry”
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