Case Histories From the History of Psychiatry

Reviews... [If you would like to post a review, contact Ed Brown.]
Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England. Jonathan Andrews & Andrew Scull.
Mental Ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Joel Braslow.
Mind Games: American Culture and the Birth of Psychotherapy. Eric Caplan.
Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940. Ian Robert Dowbiggin
Perlman's Ordeal. Brooks Hansen
You Are Not A Stranger Here. Adam Haslett.
The Antidepressant Era. David Healy.
The Creation of Psychopharmacology. David Healy.
Creating Mental Illness. Allan V. Horvitz.
The Cursing Brain: The Histories of Tourette's Syndrome. Howard Kushner
Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
Stepchildren of Nature: Krafft-Ebing, Psychiatry and the Making of Sexual Identity, Harry Oosterhuis.
Madness: A Brief History. Roy Porter.
Last resort: Psychosurgery and the limits of medicine. Jack D Pressman.
A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century. Ben Shephard
A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of Asylum to the Age of Prozac, Edward Shorter.
A history of alcoholism. Jean-Charles Sournia
Healing the Mind: A History of Psychiatry from Antiquity to the Present, Michael H. Stone
A Generous Confidence: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Art of Asylum-keeping [1840-1883]. Nancy Tomes.
The Unknown Night: The Madness and Genius of R. A. Blakelock, an American Painter. Glyn Vincent
Mad in America:Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill. Robert Whitaker
The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Allan Young

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Controversies ...
Madness and Civilization. Michel Foucault
Jailing the Mentally Ill. John Biewen & Stephen Smith
Treatment of the Mentally Ill in Colonial America, Dara Gruen
Neurology's Influence on American Psychiatry, 1865-1915. Ed Brown
The Strange Case of Dr. B. Robert Gottlieb
Is Treatment of Inmates with MPD Possible in Prison? [1994]Ralph B. Allison
The Mentally ill tend to be more violent. Michael A. Ingall.
      What is Mental Illness?
The Myth of Mental Illness, (1960) Thomas Szasz.
The Insanity of Psychiatry. [2000] Jim Peron
Is Schizophrenia of Recent Origin?
      Chinese Psychiatry
China's Psychiatric Terror. Jonathan Mirsky
Judicial Psychiatry in China and its Political Abuses. Robin Munro.
Psychiatrists Rebuke China for Blocking Inspection Visit. Erik Eeckholm
      Advocacy
National Association for the Protection of the Insane and the Prevention of Insanity
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
Mind Freedom Online
Lunatics' Liberation Front
The Antipsychiatry Coalition.
Critical Psychiatry Network.

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Articles... [If you would like to post an article, contact Ed Brown.
French Psychiatry's Initial Response to Bayle's Discovery of General Paresis of the Insane. Ed Brown
An American Treatment for the 'American Nervousness': George Miller Beard's General Electrization. Ed Brown
Why Wagner-Jauregg Won the Nobel Prize for Discovering Malaria Therapy for General Paresis. Ed Brown
Emotional Trauma and the Development of the Idea of Neurosis in the United States: 1865-1930. Ed Brown
The Neurological Origins of Psychoanalysis. Raymond Fancher
Drug Treatments in Modern Psychiatry: The History of a Delusion. Joanna Moncreif
20th Century History of the Treatment of Mental Illness: A Review. Ann Palmer
James Jackson Putnam and the Legacy of Liberal Protestantism in Early American Psychotherapy. Rachael Rosner

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Syllabi ...
Readings in the History of Psychiatry. Mark Micale
Madness and Medicine: Themes in the History of Psychiatry. Anne Harrington
Perceptions of Mental Illness. Phil Brown
Literary Representations of Madness. Nicholas Halmi
Social History of Mental Illness. Hans Pols
Course Syllabi in the History of the Human Sciences

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Links ...
journals, organizations, libraries, used books.

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Bibliographies...
A Biblography of the History of Psychiatry, Madness and Insanity...Jerald Cumbus
Annotated Bibliography... Ed Brown
History of Psychiatry. Christian Perring
Suicide in Early Modern Europe. Jeffrey R. Watt
An Anti-Psychiatry Reading List.
Bibliography on Early American Mental Illness
Bibliography of Kraepelin's works

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...and
Five easy pieces: short papers on doing psychotherapy...Ed Brown

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Last updated: 5/30/03