By Juliet Wagner Presented as both as an example of applied media studies and as a contribution to the history… Read more Book Review – Julia Barbara Köhne. Kriegshysteriker: Strategische Bilder and mediale Techniken militärpsychiatrischen Wissens (Husum, 2009)
Category: Book reviews
Book Review – Mitchell G. Ash (ed.): Psychoanalyse in totalitären und autoritären Regimen (Frankfurt a. M. 2010)
By Uffa Jensen “Psychoanalysis in totalitarian and authoritarian regimes” In political terms, Freud’s view of his creation – psychoanalysis –… Read more Book Review – Mitchell G. Ash (ed.): Psychoanalyse in totalitären und autoritären Regimen (Frankfurt a. M. 2010)
Book Review – Siri Hustvedt. The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves (Picador 2010)
By Mikhal Dekel Siri Hustvedt begins to shake uncontrollably when she delivers a talk in honor of her father two… Read more Book Review – Siri Hustvedt. The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves (Picador 2010)
Review – Joost Vijselaar, Het gesticht
Le livre de Joost Vijselaar, professeur d’histoire de psychiatrie à l’université d’Utrecht, est issu d’un plus large projet de recherche… Read more Review – Joost Vijselaar, Het gesticht
Review – Transnational Psychiatries: Social and Cultural Histories of Psychiatry in Comparative Perspective c. 1800-2000. Editors: Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Mueller (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)
By Yumi Kim Rallying cries for more comparative and transnational histories have resounded for the past two decades. Even so,… Read more Review – Transnational Psychiatries: Social and Cultural Histories of Psychiatry in Comparative Perspective c. 1800-2000. Editors: Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Mueller (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)
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