Elisabeth Roudinesco publishes a new biography on Sigmund Freud. Due to her central position in the French intellectual life… Read more Book announcement – A new biography on Freud by Elisabeth Roudinesco
Category: Literature
New Issue of Social History of Medicine
The latest issue of Social History of Medicine contains at least one article that interests the readers of h-madness directly.… Read more New Issue of Social History of Medicine
Happy Birthday – History of Psychiatry
The December 2014 issue of History of Psychiatry is now out. It’s number 100. Congratulations to the team that publishes… Read more Happy Birthday – History of Psychiatry
Book announcement – Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890-1914
Louise Hide, a Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, just publishes a book on gender and class in British asylums. The blurb… Read more Book announcement – Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890-1914
The Lancet on Psychiatry during World War One
The Lancet has published a very interesting World War One themed issue with papers on infectious disease, amputation pain,… Edgard… Read more The Lancet on Psychiatry during World War One