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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.

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Revision of the DSM

Posted on June 29, 2011 by gae16802

The journal Personality and Mental Health features a special issue entitled “The Revision of DSM – Intended and Unintended Consequences:… Read more Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Revision of the DSM

Neuroscience, Free Will, and a New Wave in Criminal Law?

Posted on June 27, 2011 by gae16802

The Atlantic features an article by neuroscientist David Eagleman (Baylor College of Medicine, USA) entitled “The Brain on Trial.”  In… Read more Neuroscience, Free Will, and a New Wave in Criminal Law?

“Quantified Selfers”: The Future of Psychological Enhancement?

Posted on June 23, 2011June 23, 2011 by gae16802

Financial Times this month featured an article entitled “Invasion of the Body Hackers” by April Dembosky.  The piece examines the first-ever… Read more “Quantified Selfers”: The Future of Psychological Enhancement?

Hugh Freeman, 1930-2011

Posted on June 23, 2011 by gae16802

HUGH FREEMAN, 1930-2011 Obituaries have just been published of the psychiatrist and historian, Hugh Freeman, who died on the 4th… Read more Hugh Freeman, 1930-2011

The Guardian Looks at the Career of Carl Jung

Posted on June 4, 2011June 4, 2011 by gae16802

The influential and admittedly divisive figure Carl Jung (1875-1961) is the subject of a series published in the newspaper The… Read more The Guardian Looks at the Career of Carl Jung

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