The following Conference Report was written by Anne Freese (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): This two-day conference, co-organized by Jason Crouthamel, Julia… Read more Conference Report: 2019 Great Lakes History Conference: “Gender and Trauma: Material, Methods, Media” Grand Valley State University, 20–21 September 2019, Michigan, Grand Rapids
The december 2019 issue of History of Psychiatry is now available online. Readers of H-Madness may find its wide range of… Read more Journal: History of Psychiatry (Dec 2019)
The most recent episode of Professor Rab Houston‘s podcast series (Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts) on forensic psychiatry with… Read more Podcast: Forensic Psychiatry with Professor John Crichton
This study examines Adolphe Quêtelet’s conception of deviance. It investigates how he identified social marginalities and what actions he recommended… Read more Article: At the borders of the average man; Adolphe Quêtelet on mental, moral, and criminal monstrosities by Filippo M. Sposini
Published on 17 December 2019 on The Lancet Psychiatry. Extensive institutionalisation of people with mental disorders has a brief history lasting… Read more Article: Asylums, the historical perspective before, during, and after by Rab A. Houston
