By the turn of the twentieth century, the “certified insane” had become a central category for national statistics with important… Read more Article: Confinement and Certificates; Consensus, Stigma and Disability Rights by Filippo M. Sposini

Convened by Dr Christina Malathouni (c.malathouni@liverpool.ac.uk) In recent months, as the reality of a pandemic became apparent across the globe,… Read more Talks: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Mental Health and the Built Environment

Pathways of patients explores the casebooks of the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum during the superintendence of Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees, from… Read more Book: Pathways of Patients at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum by Rory du Plessis

The special issue published in Transcultural Psychiatry explores variants of psychotherapeutic practices that have existed for millennia in diverse sociocultural… Read more Special Issue: “Other Psychotherapies”; Healing Interactions across Time, Geography, and Culture

ʿAṣfūriyyeh (formally, the Lebanon Hospital for the Insane) was founded by a Swiss Quaker missionary in 1896, one of the… Read more Book: Asfuriyyeh; A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East by Joelle Abi-Rached