The special issue published in the journal Astérion engages with Michel Foucault, the link between the epistemological reflection on mental health,… Read more Special Issue: Challenging Foucault with psychiatry and psychoanalysis

Avant les années 1960, les hôpitaux psychiatriques québécois étaient, pour l’essentiel, entre les mains de femmes, religieuses ou laïques. Mais,… Read more Talk: Quand les femmes administraient la folie by Alexandre Klein (Université de Laval, January 23 2020)

Through horror movies and TV shows, we’re often conditioned to think of former psychiatric hospital facilities as places to fear.… Read more From Historic Hospital to Hip Hotel, Buffalo’s formerly-abandoned Asylum once again welcomes overnight Visitors

In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers… Read more Book: Colonizing Madness, Asylum and Community in Fiji by Jacqueline Leckie

This conference aims to reconfigure our understanding of the ‘madwoman’ in England’s long nineteenth century, asking key questions about the diagnosis,… Read more CfP: The ‘Madwoman’ and the Institution (Leicester, April 2020)