Author Archive

Meet the historian: Sally Alexander

MEET THE HISTORIAN: Sally Alexander, 6pm, 22 Feb 2012, Room 104, South Block, Senate House, London WC1E 7HU History Lab’s ‘Meet the Historian’ events are an opportunity to hear at first hand from noted historians how and why they became historians in the first place, their thoughts on research and the discipline generally, and about their [ READ MORE ]

CfP – Pain and Old Age

CALL FOR PAPERS  – PAIN AND OLD AGE: THREE CENTURIES OF SUFFERING IN SILENCE? Public Conference: 27 October 2012 The Birkbeck Pain Project and the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities Birkbeck, University of London Organised by Visiting Fellow to the Birkbeck Pain Project, Prof. Lynn Botelho (Department of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania) According to [ READ MORE ]

New Issue – Nordic Journal of Psychiatry

A new issue of the Nordic Journal of Psychiatry is now available online and includes the following article dealing with the history of psychiatry: Ó Gudmundsson, History of Icelandic psychiatry. The abstract reads: The history of Icelandic psychiatry is in many ways comparable with neighboring countries. Mentally ill people were badly treated in the country and received [ READ MORE ]

Politik als Psychologie – Horst Eberhard Richter

Im vergangenen Jahr starb Horst-Eberhard Richter. In Presse-Nachrufen war zu lesen, wie er sich als „Therapeut der Nation“, zeitlebens in „Reflexion und Aktion“ um das Seelenheil der Deutschen gekümmert habe. In der Tat war Richter ein Psychotherapeut, der seinen Beruf als einen notwendigen Bestandteil der Gesellschaft begriff. Sein Leben und seine Arbeit bieten reichhaltiges Material, [ READ MORE ]

Call for paper – Material culture in closed spaces

Interest for closed spaces played an important part in the critical renewal of the humanities from the 1960s on, as demonstrated in particular the work of Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault. For the past ten years, the spatial turn has provided new impetus for a greater consideration of space as a place of socialisation. These [ READ MORE ]

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