By Clark Lawlor Junko Kitanaka’s book richly deserves the superlatives that reviews other than this one will be sending in… Read more Book Review – Junko Kitanaka, Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress (Princeton 2011)
Call for Papers Reminder: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Reminder: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, the United States’ oldest continuously published independent monthly journal in the field,… Read more Call for Papers Reminder: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
How I Became a Historian of Psychiatry: Gerald Grob
To continue our intellectual biography series, Gerald Grob, the Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine (Emeritus) at… Read more How I Became a Historian of Psychiatry: Gerald Grob
Reconstructing What Happened to Phineas Gage
Christian Jarrett, editor/writer over at the informative and entertaining British Psychological Society Research Digest, has just posted a piece on… Read more Reconstructing What Happened to Phineas Gage
New Issue – Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
A new special issue of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry devoted to “ethnographies of suicide” is now online and includes the… Read more New Issue – Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
