Le livre de Joost Vijselaar, professeur d’histoire de psychiatrie à l’université d’Utrecht, est issu d’un plus large projet de recherche… Read more Review – Joost Vijselaar, Het gesticht
A Discussion about the Insanity Defense in the U.S.
In the wake of the recent shooting of a congresswoman in Arizona, The New York Times this week published an interesting… Read more A Discussion about the Insanity Defense in the U.S.
Review – Transnational Psychiatries: Social and Cultural Histories of Psychiatry in Comparative Perspective c. 1800-2000. Editors: Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Mueller (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)
By Yumi Kim Rallying cries for more comparative and transnational histories have resounded for the past two decades. Even so,… Read more Review – Transnational Psychiatries: Social and Cultural Histories of Psychiatry in Comparative Perspective c. 1800-2000. Editors: Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Mueller (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)
happy birthday h-madness
A year ago, we published our first post on historypsychiatry.wordpress.com. Soon, an editorial board was set up and h-madness found… Read more happy birthday h-madness
Review—PTSD before PTSD. The Politics of War Trauma: The Aftermath of World War II in Eleven European Countries. Editors: Jolande Withuis and Annet Mooij. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2010.
by Hans Pols By now the story of the origin of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD] is fairly well known: the… Read more Review—PTSD before PTSD. The Politics of War Trauma: The Aftermath of World War II in Eleven European Countries. Editors: Jolande Withuis and Annet Mooij. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2010.
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