Please join us on Wednesday, May 5 at 2pm EST to welcome National Book Award finalist Elliot Ackerman as the next guest in our… Read more Virtual Meeting: Violence and the Imagination by Elliot Ackerman in conversation with George J. Makari

The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar convenes twice a month, presenting a work-in-progress to an inter-disciplinary group of scholars.… Read more Video Archive: The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar

General editors: Jonathan Sadowsky and Chiara Thumiger  As series co-editors for a forthcoming six-volume Cultural History of Madness, to be published… Read more Call for Editors: A Cultural History of Madness

Brainwash: Les cobayes oubliés est une adaptation française du balado Brainswashed de CBC. Montréal, milieu du 20e siècle. Un psychiatre renommé mène des… Read more Podcast: Brainwash, Les Cobayes Oubliés

Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From… Read more Book: Pure America, Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia by Elizabeth Catte