Today, 90 percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate… Read more Book: Administrations of Lunacy; Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum by Mab Segrest

La psychiatrie publique occupe, depuis 2019, le haut des agendas politique et médiatique. Les professionnels et des associations de patients… Read more Special Issue: Politisation, Dépolitisation et Repolitisation de la Crise sans Fin de la Psychiatrie Publique

In this new book “Practicing Biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913-1965”, Tizian Zumthurm uses the extraordinary hospital of an… Read more Chapter: Healing and ‘Civilizing’: Community and Safety in Psychiatric Care by Tizian Zumthurm

A new paper just published on the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders deals with the history of childhood psychiatry. This… Read more Article: Autism in Baltimore, 1938–1943 by Marga Vicedo and Juan Ilerbaig

Contrairement à une idée largement répandue, les femmes entraient en moins grand nombre que les hommes à l’asile, mais que… Read more Article: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Solange Lapeyrière