This book aims to demonstrate how, regrettably, over the last twenty years or so, typically American conceptions of mental illness… Read more Review – Ethan Watters. Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. New York: Free Press, 2010.

Passions and Tempers is a real treat. Noga Arikha has written a lucid book that provides a concise history of… Read more Review – Noga Arikha. Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours (Harper Collins 2007)

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)