This paper investigates the nexus between the legal provisions for the certification of insanity and the introduction of psychological medicine… Read more Article: The Rise of Psychological Physicians; The Certification of Insanity and the Teaching of Medical Psychology

The research group “Decolonising the Psyche: The Politics of Ethnopsychology, 1930–1980”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), is… Read more PhD Positions: Decolonising the Psyche: The Politics of Ethnopsychology, 1930–1980

A new paper published on History of Psychiatry will be of interest to the H-Madness community. The nineteenth century witnessed… Read more Article: Sexual Abuse by Superintending Staff in the Nineteenth-Century Lunatic Asylum by Cara Dobbing and Alannah Tomkins

This book reassesses the philosophical, psychological and, above all, the literary representations of the unconscious in the early twentieth century.… Read more Book: The Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and Science by Thalia Trigoni

“Matti” – nel tempo: fatui, ossessi, furiosi, invasati, lunatici; mentecatti, pazzi, folli, alienati, dementi, maniaci; poi anormali, malati di mente,… Read more Book: Geel, The City of Fools by Renzo Villa