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This blog follows the history of psychiatry

Author: gae16802

Greg Eghigian is Professor of History at Penn State University (USA), where he conducts research and teaches about the history of the human sciences and medicine. He is presently writing a history of UFOs and alien contact as a global cultural phenomenon in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Therapist and Critic of Psychiatry Thomas Szasz (1920-2012)

Posted on September 13, 2012 by gae16802

The well-known psychotherapist and vocal critic of psychiatry Thomas Szasz has died. Both the New York Times and the Boston… Read more Therapist and Critic of Psychiatry Thomas Szasz (1920-2012)

Fall Schedule – Harvard Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine

Posted on September 7, 2012September 7, 2012 by gae16802

The Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital And The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway… Read more Fall Schedule – Harvard Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine

New Book Announcement: Closing the Asylums (George Paulson)

Posted on August 17, 2012 by gae16802

McFarland & Company has just published a new book by George Paulson, Closing the Asylums: Causes and Consequences of the Deinstitutionalization… Read more New Book Announcement: Closing the Asylums (George Paulson)

New Book Announcement – After Freud Left (ed. John Burnham)

Posted on August 10, 2012 by gae16802

The University of Chicago Press has just published a new edited volume entitled After Freud Left.  Edited by John Burnham,… Read more New Book Announcement – After Freud Left (ed. John Burnham)

Is Bereavement Counseling the Victim of a Statistic With a Life of its Own?

Posted on August 7, 2012August 8, 2012 by gae16802

Christian Jarrett over at the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest has posted an interesting piece citing a 2007 article by… Read more Is Bereavement Counseling the Victim of a Statistic With a Life of its Own?

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