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Grief Exclusion and DSM V

A recent report in the popular press cites Kenneth Kendler and Arthur Kleinman on the pathologization of grief[ 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 ]

Book Review – Veronika Fuechtner, Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond (California 2011)

Elizabeth Ann Danto In late August 1908, the young psychoanalyst Karl Abraham wrote excitedly to Freud. “Things are moving!” he enthused. “On the 27th the Berlin Psycho-Analytic Society will meet for the first time.[1]”  Indeed the city of Berlin’s creative energy appealed to talented urban newcomers like Abraham, and also Max Eitingon, both recently arrived [ READ MORE ]

Happy Birthday h-madness

Two years ago, we published our first post on historypsychiatry.wordpress.com. Soon, an editorial board was set up and h-madness found its place in the blogosphere. In the last year, we have published 139 posts, this one included (the first year we had been more prolific: 207 posts). We had 61 000 page views (the first [ READ MORE ]

Extracting DNA From Autopsied Brains of Psychiatric Patients

A recent article in Scientific American discusses the efforts of pathologists in Indiana (USA) to mine genetic and other information from a collection of autopsied brains stored in gelatinous celloidin.  The brains are from the former pathology department of the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane, which collected them from patients autopsied between 1896 and 1938. “There [ READ MORE ]

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