Today many societal debates on topics such as identity, community and mental health are influenced by psychiatry and its history.… Read more Lecture: Sándor Ferenczi, Psychoanalysis’ Beautiful Loser, by Benoît Peeters

The next event of the Richardson Seminar on the History of Psychiatry will take place on Wednesday, April 7, 2021… Read more Lecture: Uprooting, Trauma, and Confinement; Psychiatry in Refugee Camps, 1945-1993 by Baher Ibrahim

This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations,… Read more Book: Languages of Trauma Edited by Peter Leese, Julia Barbara Köhne and Jason Crouthamel

This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in… Read more Book: From Melancholia to Depression Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry by Åsa Jansson

Starting in 1911, and for many years, the Alberta Hospital Ponoka, or AHP, was the largest and highest-population psychiatric institution… Read more Book: Hometown Asylum, A History and Memoir of Institutional Care by Jack Martin