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h-madness

This blog follows the history of psychiatry

Author: Filippo M. Sposini

PhD at University of Toronto

Talks: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Mental Health and the Built Environment

Posted on December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 by Filippo M. Sposini

Convened by Dr Christina Malathouni (c.malathouni@liverpool.ac.uk) In recent months, as the reality of a pandemic became apparent across the globe,… Read more Talks: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Mental Health and the Built Environment

Book: Pathways of Patients at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum by Rory du Plessis

Posted on December 1, 2020November 30, 2020 by Filippo M. Sposini

Pathways of patients explores the casebooks of the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum during the superintendence of Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees, from… Read more Book: Pathways of Patients at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum by Rory du Plessis

Special Issue: “Other Psychotherapies”; Healing Interactions across Time, Geography, and Culture

Posted on November 26, 2020November 25, 2020 by Filippo M. Sposini

The special issue published in Transcultural Psychiatry explores variants of psychotherapeutic practices that have existed for millennia in diverse sociocultural… Read more Special Issue: “Other Psychotherapies”; Healing Interactions across Time, Geography, and Culture

Book: Asfuriyyeh; A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East by Joelle Abi-Rached

Posted on November 19, 2020November 17, 2020 by Filippo M. Sposini

ʿAṣfūriyyeh (formally, the Lebanon Hospital for the Insane) was founded by a Swiss Quaker missionary in 1896, one of the… Read more Book: Asfuriyyeh; A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East by Joelle Abi-Rached

Book: Global Health and the New World Order

Posted on October 22, 2020October 20, 2020 by Filippo M. Sposini

What does global health stem from, when is it born, how does it relate to the contemporary world order? This… Read more Book: Global Health and the New World Order

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