George Makari, Director of the Weill-Cornell Institute for the History of Psychiatry and author of Revolution in Mind (2008), has written a… Read more New Book: “Soul Machine. The Invention of the Modern Mind” (George Makari)
Category: Books
New Book: On Hysteria. The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 & 1820 (Sabine Arnaud)
On Hysteria. The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 & 1820 Sabine Arnaud University of Chicago Press ISBN: 978‐0‐226‐27554‐3… Read more New Book: On Hysteria. The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 & 1820 (Sabine Arnaud)
Book announcement – Psychiatry in Communist Europe
This is the first book to address the history of psychiatry under Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, from the… Read more Book announcement – Psychiatry in Communist Europe
Book announcement – Madness. A History
Petteri Pietikäinen, professor at the History of Science and Ideas department from the University of Oulu (Finland), publishes on ambitious… Read more Book announcement – Madness. A History
Book announcement – Work, psychiatry and society, c. 1750-2010
Work and psychiatry seems to be the new ‘hot’ topic in the history of psychiatry. Our latest post was dedicated… Read more Book announcement – Work, psychiatry and society, c. 1750-2010
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