By Michael Oldani By an odd coincidence I was able recently to watch the end of One Flew Over the… Read more Book Review – Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America (Crown 2010)
Category: Literature
Book Review – Monika Ankele, Alltag und Aneignung in Psychiatrien um 1900. Selbstzeugnisse von Frauen aus der Sammlung Prinzhorn (Vienna 2009)
By Sabine Wieber Shortly after his arrival in 1919 at the Psychiatrische Klinik der Universität Heidelberg, the German art historian… Read more Book Review – Monika Ankele, Alltag und Aneignung in Psychiatrien um 1900. Selbstzeugnisse von Frauen aus der Sammlung Prinzhorn (Vienna 2009)
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Revision of the DSM
The journal Personality and Mental Health features a special issue entitled “The Revision of DSM – Intended and Unintended Consequences:… Read more Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Revision of the DSM
Neuroscience, Free Will, and a New Wave in Criminal Law?
The Atlantic features an article by neuroscientist David Eagleman (Baylor College of Medicine, USA) entitled “The Brain on Trial.” In… Read more Neuroscience, Free Will, and a New Wave in Criminal Law?
New issue: Genèses
A new issue of the periodical Genèses is now out. Its central theme is “Medicalisation” and it includes three articles… Read more New issue: Genèses
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