What part do movies play in making psychological trauma visible? This is the question Tony Kaes poses at the outset… Read more Review – Anton Kaes, Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War (Princeton 2009)
Category: Book reviews
Review – Madness & Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna in 1900
Madness and Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna in 1900 is the catalogue for an exhibition conceived… Read more Review – Madness & Modernity: Mental Illness and the Visual Arts in Vienna in 1900
Review – Treating the Trauma of the Great War – Soldiers, Civilians and Psychiatrists in France, 1914-1940
The social, political and cultural significance of shell shock, or war hysteria, in the First World War has been expertly… Read more Review – Treating the Trauma of the Great War – Soldiers, Civilians and Psychiatrists in France, 1914-1940
Review – La méthode Coué
For decades, the shifts on the field of psychotherapy have produced an ever sharper historical demarcation of ‘the’ discipline of… Read more Review – La méthode Coué
Review – L’asile aux fous
La publication de photos du psychiatre français Roger Camar est l’occasion pour une équipe dirigée par Philippe Artières et Jean-François… Read more Review – L’asile aux fous
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