The Wellcome Collection Event Series will host a seminar on Tuesday 27 April 2021 17:30-18:30 (GMT) that might be of… Read more Seminar: Picturing the Asylum by Katherine Rawling

The next event of the Richardson Seminar on the History of Psychiatry will take place on Wednesday, April 7, 2021… Read more Lecture: Uprooting, Trauma, and Confinement; Psychiatry in Refugee Camps, 1945-1993 by Baher Ibrahim

This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations,… Read more Book: Languages of Trauma Edited by Peter Leese, Julia Barbara Köhne and Jason Crouthamel

This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in… Read more Book: From Melancholia to Depression Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry by Åsa Jansson

Starting in 1911, and for many years, the Alberta Hospital Ponoka, or AHP, was the largest and highest-population psychiatric institution… Read more Book: Hometown Asylum, A History and Memoir of Institutional Care by Jack Martin