This week, columnist Clyde Haberman published a piece in the New York Times dealing with the fluidity of the Dissociative Identity Disorder… Read more This week in the NY Times: “Sybil: A Brilliant Hysteric?”
Category: Literature
Book announcement – A new biography on Freud by Elisabeth Roudinesco
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
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
