Debjani Das, Assistant Professor at the Department of History of Vidyasagar University, just published a book entitled Houses of Madness.… Read more New Book – Houses of Madness: Insanity and Asylums of Bengal in Nineteenth-Century India by Debjani Das
Category: Literature
New Issue – Critical Arts
The latest issue of Critical Arts contains at least one article that interests the readers of h-madness. Beyond a clinical… Read more New Issue – Critical Arts
New Book – A History of Self-Harm in Britain by Chris Millard
Chris Millard , historian at Queen Mary (London), has just published his PhD dedicated to the history of ‘attempted suicide… Read more New Book – A History of Self-Harm in Britain by Chris Millard
Dissertations – Electroconvulsive Therapy and Its Devices
Max Gawlich: “Electroconvulsive Therapy and Its Devices” In 1939 a wave of enthusiasm swept through the asylums of Europe. Machines… Read more Dissertations – Electroconvulsive Therapy and Its Devices
New Book – Political Freud by Eli Zaretsky
Eli Zaretsky, Professor of History at Lang College an eminent specialist, among others, of the history of psychoanalysis, has written… Read more New Book – Political Freud by Eli Zaretsky
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