HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY

‘Am I mad?’: the Windham case and Victorian resistance to psychiatry

Karl Jaspers and Karl Popper: the shared legacy

The Kirkbride buildings in contemporary culture (1850–2015): from ‘moral management’ to horror films

Through a glass darkly: patients of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville, USA (1854–80)

Jules Bernard Luys on magnetic pathology

Not just a one-man revolution: the multifaceted anti-asylum watershed in Italy

Rape of the lock: note on nineteenth-century hair fetishists

Battey’s operation as a treatment for hysteria: a review of a series of cases in the nineteenth century

Neurasthenia, psy sciences and the ‘great leap forward’ in Maoist China

Showers: from a violent treatment to an agent of cleansing

The influence of Max Weber on the concept of empathic understanding (Verstehen) in the psychopathology of Karl Jaspers

The ‘Poitrot Report’, 1945: the first public document on Nazi euthanasia

The introduction of leucotomy in Germany: National Socialism, émigrés, a divided Germany and the development of neurosurgery

As good as it gets: an empirical study on mentally-ill patients and their stay at a general hospital in Sweden, 1896–1905

‘As syllable from sound’: the sonic dimensions of confinement at the State Hospital for the Insane at Worcester, Massachusetts

‘Dementia praecocissima’: the Sante De Sanctis model of mental disorder in child psychiatry in the 20th century

Managing difficult and violent adolescents (adolescents difficiles) in France: a genealogical approach

Psychiatrists and mental health activism during the final phase of the Franco regime and the democratic transition

Colonial surgeon Patrick Hill (1794–1852): unacknowledged pioneer of Australian mental healthcare

‘The present state and statistical observation of mental patients under home custody’, by Kure Shūzō and Kashida Gorō (1918)

How amytal changed psychopharmacy: off-label uses of sodium amytal (1920–40)

Person and ethics of a psychiatrist during National Socialism: Friedrich Meggendorfer (1880–1953)

The Baldovan Institution Abuse Inquiry: a forgotten scandal

Sigmund Freud and Martin Pappenheim

Eugenic concerns, scientific practices: international relations in the establishment of psychiatric genetics in Germany, Britain, the USA and Scandinavia, c.1910–60

The invisible woman: Susan Carnegie and Montrose Lunatic Asylum

‘Insanity in Classical Antiquity’, by JL Heiberg (1913)

Camille Flammarion on the powers of the soul; with an introduction by Carlos S

Janet–Schwartz–Ellenberger: the history of a triangular relationship through their unpublished correspondence (1926–48)

Confusion about confusion: Édouard Toulouse’s dementia test, 1905–20

Vinegar and weight loss in women of eighteenth-century France: a lesson from the past

Madness, Medicine and Miracle in Twelfth-Century England

‘Insanity in Classical Antiquity’, by JL Heiberg (1913)

Humane treatment versus means of control: coercive measures in Norwegian high-security psychiatry, 1895–1978

Dissertation Abstracts

Away with the fairies: the psychopathology of visionary encounters in early modern Scotland

Women neuropsychiatrists on Wagner-Jauregg’s staff in Vienna at the time of the Nobel award: ordeal and fortitude