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Call for Papers Reminder: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Reminder:  The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, the United States’ oldest continuously published independent monthly journal in the field, will celebrate its 200th volume in 2012. Editor-in-Chief John A. Talbott, M.D., has announced that the anniversary issue will be dedicated to the history of psychiatry and neurology.  The deadline has been extended to July [ READ MORE ]

New Issue – Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry

A new special issue of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry devoted to “ethnographies of suicide” is now online and includes the following articles that might be of interest to historians of psychiatry: Suffering, Frustration, and Anger: Class, Gender and History in Sri Lankan Suicide Stories (Tom Widger) This paper explores competing stories of suffering, frustration and anger [ READ MORE ]

New issue: History of Psychiatry

The June 2012 issue of History of Psychiatry is now online and contains the following articles: R.D. Laing’s theological hinterland: the contrast between mysticism and communion (Gavin Miller) Contrasting elements in R.D. Laing’s psychiatry can be traced to two kinds of Christian theology: mystical theology and corporate theology. On one hand, Laing’s mystical theology combined [ READ MORE ]

About once a month, the UC Davis Disability Studies blog  posts a listing of recently published historical articles about disability (somewhat broadly defined). This month, the list includes: Brownlee, Kimberly, “Treatment of the Mentally Ill in Northwest Ohio: The Lucas County Infirmary and Poor Farm and the Toledo State Hospital,” _Northwest Ohio History_ 79(Fall 2011): [ READ MORE ]

New issue of Medicine Studies

In the last issue of Medicine Studies, Elisabetta Basso published an article that may interest the readers of h-madness entitled “From the Problem of the Nature of Psychosis to the Phenomenological Reform of Psychiatry. Historical and Epistemological Remarks on Ludwig Binswanger’s Psychiatric Project”. The abstract reads: This paper focuses on one of the original moments [ READ MORE ]

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