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Deinstitutionalisation and the move to community care: comparing the changing dimensions of mental healthcare after 1922 in the Republic of Ireland and England History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Verusca Calabria, Lynsey T Cullen
The advent of deinstitutionalisation and the introduction of community care in the latter part of the twentieth century have revolutionised mental-health service provision across Europe, although implementation, timing and services have varied widely in different countries. This article compares the changing dimensions of mental-health provision in post-independence Ireland with that in England, and
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Book Review: How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Olivia Weiss
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Neither saintly nor psychotic: a narrative systematic review of the evolving Western perception of voice hearing History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Renaud Evrard, Bevis Beauvais, Aziz Essadek, Joëlle Lighezzolo-Alnot, Christophe Clesse
We present a social-historical perspective on the evolution of the voice-hearing phenomenon in Western society. Based upon a systematic search from a selection of nine databases, we trace the way hearing voices has been understood throughout the ages. Originally, hearing voices was considered a gifted talent for accessing the divine, but the progressive influence of monotheistic religion gradually
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Whose experts? How federalism shaped psychiatry in the late Habsburg monarchy History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Clemens Ableidinger
The late Habsburg period (1867–1918) created a constitutional dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary. This paper discusses the role of psychiatry in Cisleithania, both as a developing profession and as a distinct ‘policy field’. Tension between psychiatry’s academic professionalisation and the creation of public institutions as signature projects by individual crownlands created complex relationships between
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Revisiting Emil Kraepelin’s eugenic arguments History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Keijin Yamamura, Toshiya Murai
It is widely recognized that Emil Kraepelin explicitly advocated for eugenic ideas in his academic works. Given the renewed interest in related concepts such as self-domestication and neo-Lamarckism in different contexts, this article revisits his eugenic arguments by scrutinizing a section of his seminal work, the 8th edition of his textbook published in 1909. Our analysis reveals that Kraepelin’s
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Book Review: From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 George Tudorie
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The Basaglia Law. Returning dignity to psychiatric patients: the historical, political and social factors that led to the closure of psychiatric hospitals in Italy in 1978 History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Valentina Badano
Law no. 180 of 1978, which led to the closure of psychiatric hospitals in Italy, has often been erroneously associated with one man, Franco Basaglia, but the reality is much more complex. Not only were countless people involved in the movement that led to the approval of this law, but we should also take into account the historical, social, and political factors that came into play. The 1970s in Italy
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Soul, body and mental health – applying Rabbi Moshe de Maimon’s philosophy to the contemporary phenomenon of drug addiction History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Yula Milshteyn
In modern psychiatry, drug addiction is considered as mainly a mental disorder and a brain disease problem, of complex aetiology. In addition, drug addiction has been characterized as a loss of willpower or akrasia, and even a sin. In this essay, I analyse Maimonides’ (Rambam’s) treatises More Ha-Nevuchim ( Guide for the Perplexed) and Shemona Perakim ( The Eight Chapters). He asserts that the soul
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De lunatico inquirendo: managing family inheritance across madness in eighteenth-century London History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Mark McCarthy
An ‘inquisition’ (or inquiry) held before a Justice of the Peace was the primary instrument for management of lunacy in eighteenth-century England. Yet its purpose was to protect wealth rather than the individual. The 1766 case book of Dr John Monro, London’s leading doctor for madness, unexpectedly records a consultation that links two siblings who both had inquisitions. Nicholas Jeffreys’ only son
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Child development, film evidence, and epidemiological sciences: Elwyn James Anthony and the 1957 Zurich International Congress of Psychiatry History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Bonnie Evans
In 1957, the British-Indian child psychiatrist Dr Elwyn James Anthony travelled to the Zurich International Congress of Psychiatry to show a film featuring 70 children with such complex symptomatology and behaviour that they betrayed the certainty of contemporary theories of developmental psychology and psychoanalysis. This article examines the significance of Anthony’s film to the creation of new
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Charles Lloyd Tuckey: medical hypnotist and ‘amiable necromancer’ History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Gordon Bates
Charles Lloyd Tuckey (1854–1925) was one of the leaders of the British ‘New Hypnotism’ movement of the late nineteenth century. This neglected figure is important because of his contributions to the early psychotherapies in Britain, ushering in the concept of suggestion to British medicine from Europe. Through his networks and clubs, Tuckey demonstrates the bewildering range of institutions that shaped
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'A proposal for research in the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders', by Alexander H Leighton (1950). History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Emmanuel Delille
The Classic Text is an outline of the Stirling County Study as conceptualized by Alexander H Leighton. It was first presented at a conference held in 1949 organized by the Milbank Memorial Fund, an American philanthropic foundation. The meeting brought together 30-40 experts from across North America. Leighton succinctly explained his frame of reference for the epidemiology of mental disorders and
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What is Psychiatry? Was ist das, die Psychiatrie? History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Ivana S Marková
Drawing on Heidegger's method of analysis, the question of what is psychiatry is explored from within. This leads to a conception of psychiatry as a form of interpersonal interaction in which there is a specific reaching out of one Being to another. It is a 'specific reaching out' because, following the recognition through the interaction between Beings that the other is in some form of distress, there
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The saga of James Lucett and the process for curing insanity, Part 1 (1811-14): The rise and fall of Delahoyde and Lucett. History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Leonard Smith
James Lucett, a London clerk, claimed possession of a secret remedy for curing chronic insanity. In 1813, he and the Irish surgeon Charles Delahoyde secured royal and aristocratic patronage to implement their 'process' and opened a private asylum. They aroused great public interest after apparently remarkable results with hitherto intractable patients from Bethlem and Hoxton. Delahoyde and Lucett attained
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Introduction to Special Issue: Geneses, organizations and transformations of psychiatric epidemiology. History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Emmanuel Delille,Samuel Lézé
Recent historiography has revealed a growing interest in the developments of psychiatric epidemiology. This volume aims to explicitly tackle the problem of transforming a diversity of knowledge into a structured scientific unit. Furthermore, it aims to answer this by bringing together historical studies that demonstrate how epistemic authority has led to the hierarchization of knowledge and the institutionalization
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Personality and mental disorders: sensitive character, melancholic type, and addenda. History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Mauricio Viotti Daker
A traditional view in psychiatry is that personality disorders or traits are intimately related to primary mental disorders. Psychic functions with common roots might be constitutive of personality and psychosis or other disorders. Hoche held that paranoia, mania and melancholia lie in the normal psyche, and Kraepelin conceded such a view, explicitly implying personality. According to Carl Schneider
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Possibly mad? Marital murder in the early twentieth century: a matched-case gender analysis of forensic psychiatric investigations in Sweden. History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Malin Hildebrand Karlén,Thomas Nilsson
This study illustrates the impact on forensic psychiatric investigations (FPI) of time-specific scientific theories and moral normative considerations. A comparative historical perspective illustrates historical FPI procedures (i.e. methodology and focus), based on two matched FPI case reports from the 1930s: a man and a woman who had shot their respective spouses. First, in the analysis, a comparison
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Danilo Cargnello and his contribution to the development of phenomenological thought: an overview. History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Filippo Besana
Danilo Cargnello was one of the greatest authors of Italian phenomenological psychopathology. He wrote the first articles on the subject in 1947-8, a period in which phenomenological ideas began to spread in Italy. His main contribution was to introduce and disseminate Binswanger's ideas in Italy and to emphasise the anthropological character of Daseinsanalyse. His book analysing results of experimental
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The psychiatric work villages in Israel: a micro working community. History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Efrat Keidar
This paper examines the psychiatric work villages in Israel, which have so far had little historiographic attention. In the 1950s and 1960s, four work villages were established for people with psychiatric disabilities. They were intended to create a long-term rehabilitative alternative to the common hospitalization practice. These villages were organized around employment in various branches of farming
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British mental healthcare responses to adult homosexuality and gender non-conforming children at the turn of the twenty-first century. History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 David Pilgrim
The roots of the recent controversy about how mental health professionals should respond to gender non-conforming children are traced. To make historical sense, this paper distinguishes between epistemological (discursive) and ontological (non-discursive) aspects and describes their features, since 1970. This helps to clarify some of the confusions at the centre of the still heated debate about sexuality
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Approaching Polish madness: concepts and treatment of psychosis in Polish psychiatry of the inter-war period. History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Jan Kornaj
The institutional organization of psychiatry in Poland when it became independent faced the problem of the integration of three ex-partition territories having different laws, health-care systems and psychiatric cultures. Due to the high incidence of mental health problems, among which psychosis was the most frequent, psychiatric care facilities had to be organized as quickly and efficiently as possible
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Classic Text No. 136 'On the question of unitary psychosis', by Harry Marcuse (1926). History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Eric J Engstrom
In his article 'On the question of unitary psychosis' (1926), Harry Marcuse (1876-1931) undertook a thought experiment in which he challenged clinical psychiatrists to entertain the possibility that the concept of unitary psychosis could be a useful diagnostic and nosological tool. Drawing on the psychology of Friedrich Jodl (1849-1914) and contemporary notions of energeticism, Marcuse proposed a non-empirical
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The epistemologies of research on the survival of consciousness after death in the golden era of the Society for Psychical Research (1882-1930). History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Pedro Henrique Costa de Resende,Alexander Moreira-Almeida,Humberto Schubert Coelho
The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) of London was founded in 1882 with the purpose of investigating psychical phenomena, especially the theme of survival, with scientific rigour. Despite the recognized importance of the SPR for dynamic psychiatry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there are few studies of its epistemological contributions to the theme of survival and its implications to
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Classic Text No. 135: ‘On inheritance of the insanities’, by Jens Chr. Smith (1924) History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Johan Schioldann
Serious and realistic research into the inheritance of the psychoses started in earnest at the beginning of the twentieth century. This was encouraged by both the acceptance of the Kraepelinian cla...
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Biocultural psychopathology as a new epistemology for mental disorders History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Caio Maximino
Psychopathology has been criticized for decades for its reliance on a brain-centred and over-reductionist approach which views mental disorders as disease-like natural kinds. While criticisms of br...
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Attempted suicide in older people in New South Wales, Australia, 1870–1908 History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Brian Draper
This study examines attempted suicide in older people between 1870 and 1908 in (NSW), Australia. Statistical Registers of NSW indicate persons aged 60+ had disproportionately high rates of apprehen...
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Understanding understanding in psychiatry History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Joseph Gough
Originally put forward to defend history from the encroachment of physics, the distinction between understanding and explanation was built into the foundations of Karl Jaspers’ ‘phenomenological’ p...
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Naming psychiatry: apropos earliest use of the term by Karl Friedrich Burdach (1800) History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Diederik F Janssen
The term psychiatry (Psychiatrie) was first used in 1800, in the early work of Leipzig Romantic natural philosopher and later neuroanatomist Karl Friedrich Burdach; it was a recherché reference to ...
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George Wallett, 1775–1845: entrepreneur and asylum doctor History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Peter Carpenter
George Wallett (1775–1845) is generally known only as Haslam’s successor at Bethlem who resigned under the cloud of corruption. However, his life proves to have been more eventful. He trained as a ...
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Empathy: a case study in the historical epistemology of psychiatry History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Ivana S Marková
The hybrid constitution of psychiatry carries important implications for understanding the discipline and the legitimacy of its research approaches. One implication concerns the central role of con...
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The work of Donald Ewen Cameron: from psychic driving to MK Ultra History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Jordan Torbay
Donald Ewen Cameron is known as the Canadian psychiatrist behind the Montreal Experiments, a series of brainwashing experiments. As part of a larger Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project known ...
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Classic Text No. 134: ‘A case of Wernicke-Bostroem’s expansive autopsychosis’, by Ib Ostenfeld (1944) History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Johan Schioldann
Expansive autopsychosis, grouped with cycloid psychoses – an illness entity of double origin: (1) Morel’s notion degeneracy, reformulated by Magnan and Legrain (reflected in Wimmer’s concept: psych...
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A mad yearning for solitude: Timon the Misanthrope and his relevance to the study of ancient psychopathology History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Nadine Metzger
Ancient Greek and Latin medical authors considered a flight into solitude a compelling sign of mental disturbance, frequently described as misanthropia, a word fraught with meaning beyond the medic...
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‘Picture imperfect’: the motives and uses of patient photography in the asylum History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Caroline Dahlquist, Peter Kinderman
In the nineteenth century, photography became common in psychiatric asylums. Although patient photographs were produced in large numbers, their original purpose and use are unclear. Journals, newsp...
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Mortality among those certified under lunacy legislation in Scotland during World War I History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Margaret White
Mortality in asylum populations increased during World War I. This paper seeks to analyse the mortality data from Scotland, where governmental statistics allow comparison between different lunacy i...
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Rosenhan revisited: successful scientific fraud History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Andrew Scull
The publication of David Rosenhan’s ‘On being sane in insane places’ in Science in 1973 played a crucial role in persuading the American Psychiatric Association to revise its diagnostic manual. The...
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The development of a creative work rehabilitation organisation History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Jonathan Leach, Peter Agulnik, Neil Armstrong
Work as therapy has a place in mental healthcare, but there is disagreement about how and why it might be helpful, and how best to conceptualise or represent those benefits. Over the last 50 years,...
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George Stephen Penny (1885–1964): his life and medical encounters before, during and after admission to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Claire Hilton
Amid extensive press coverage, George Stephen Penny (1885–1964) was tried for murder in 1923. He was found ‘guilty but insane’ due to ‘confusional insanity’ associated with malaria which he suffere...
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Emil Kraepelin as a historian of psychiatry – one hundred years on History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Burkhart Brückner
This article reviews Emil Kraepelin’s address ‘Hundert Jahre Psychiatrie’, at the opening of the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie in 1917, and published as an essay in 1918. Kraepelin’s p...
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The processes and context of innovation in mental healthcare: Oxfordshire as a case study History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 John Hall, Neil Armstrong, Peter Agulnik, Craig Fees, David Kennard, Jonathan Leach, David Millard
This article introduces the four following articles and the Classic Text. They describe the development of a sequence of innovative local mental health services in Oxfordshire, and explore the proc...
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Classic Text No. 133: ‘Maxwell Jones and the Therapeutic Community’, by David Millard (1996) History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Craig Fees, David Kennard
This text was David Millard’s departing gift to a field to which he had contributed for 30 years, as practitioner and later as Lecturer in Applied Social Studies and editor of the International Jou...
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Innovation in mental health care: Bertram Mandelbrote, the Phoenix Unit and the therapeutic community approach History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 David Millard, Peter Agulnik, Neil Armstrong, Craig Fees, John Hall, David Kennard, Jonathan Leach
Bertram Mandelbrote was Physician Superintendent and Consultant Psychiatrist at Littlemore Hospital in Oxford from 1959 to 1988. A humane pragmatist rather than theoretician, Mandelbrote was known ...
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Happenstance and regulatory culture: the evolution of innovative community mental health services in Oxfordshire in the late twentieth century History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Neil Armstrong, Peter Agulnik
This paper uses co-produced historical material to explore the evolution of two innovative mental healthcare institutions that emerged in Oxfordshire in the 1960s. We highlight how the trajectories...
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The development of supported mental health accommodation and community psychiatric nursing in Oxfordshire History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 John Hall
Overcrowding in British mental hospitals was a major service and political concern when the NHS was introduced in 1948. From 1959, a number of projects were initiated locally in Oxfordshire, based ...
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Malaria therapy for general paralysis of the insane at the Sunbury Hospital for the Insane in Australia, 1925-6. History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Alison Clayton
This paper, drawing on the published medical literature and unpublished medical record archives, provides an in-depth account of the introduction of malaria therapy for general paralysis of the insane into Australia in 1925-6, at Victoria's Sunbury Hospital for the Insane. This study reveals a complex and ambiguous picture of the practice and therapeutic impact of malaria therapy in this local setting
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Animal magnetism in Italy during the nineteenth century: the conflicting relationship with the Catholic Church. History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Roberto Mazzagatti,Michael Belingheri,Maria Emilia Paladino,Nicolò Dell'Orto,Michele Augusto Riva
This article explores the relationship between the Catholic Church and animal magnetism. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Catholic Church had first tried to stem the rise of animal magnetism in a vague manner, but after a few decades, it eventually put a genuine veto in place. This measure was founded upon the dangers to morality and faith arising from the progressive polarization of
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This equivocal dust: a review of Material Cultures of Psychiatry, edited by M Ankele and B Majerus. History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 George Tudorie
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‘I have to-day seen all the 671 patients in residence in this institution’: not listening to patients in the long 1920s History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-11-19 Claire Hilton
In the 1920s, patients and former patients produced oral and written accounts of their mental hospital experiences. Many aimed to inform the public about the institutions and to improve standards o...
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Institutionalization of the insane in the Russian Baltic provinces: a case study of the Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases in Tartu, 1881–95 History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-11-19 Anu Rae
This article studies the University of Tartu psychiatric hospital and its patient population in the Russian Baltic Province of Livonia in 1881–95, using the hospital’s admission registry book as th...
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Melancholia in late life in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia, 1871–1905: symptoms, behaviours and outcomes History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-11-19 Brian Draper
In the late nineteenth century, the prognosis of late-life melancholia was believed to be poor. The medical casebooks of 40 patients aged 60+years, admitted to two Hospitals for the Insane in New S...
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Psychiatric treatment of female mental patients in the Federated Malay States (FMS) of British-Malaya, 1930–57 History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-11-19 Haszira Muhamad Yusof, Azlizan Mat Enh
The British government in Malaya conducted treatment for women suffering mental illness in an effort to deal with the increasing number of cases in the Federated Malay States in 1930–57. This paper...
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Professional dynamics of the forensic evaluation of mental states in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-11-19 Nanna Eva Nissen
This study examines criminal cases related to blasphemy under the absolute monarchy of Denmark-Norway, and presents the evaluation of mental states within a forensic context between 1713 and 1733. ...
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‘Acquired idiotism’, by Frederik Lange (1883) History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-11-19 Johan Schioldann
The little-known writing by Frederik Lange translated in this Classic Text belongs to what can be called the prolegomenal history of the construction of the concept of schizophrenia. It describes o...
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Hypnosis, psychoanalysis, and Morita therapy: the evolution of Kokyō Nakamura’s psychotherapeutic theories and practices History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Yu-Chuan Wu
Psychotherapy had developed into a dynamic and diverse field in pre-war Japan. Apart from thousands of spiritually oriented lay psychotherapists, there were a few quasi-professional practitioners w...
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Psychiatric hospital, domestic strategies and gender issues in Tokyo, c. 1920–45 History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Akihito Suzuki
This paper explores domestic dynamics in the complex making of institutional psychiatry in Japan in c. 1920–45. It mainly examines gender issues between the relatively long-lasting system of the fa...
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Distinguishing between neurosis and psychosis: discourses on neurosis in colonial Korea History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Kyu-hwan Sihn
This article analyses the origins and formation of medical and social discourses on neurosis in colonial Korea. With the introduction of Western medicine after the Opening of Korea in 1876, neurast...
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Introduction: Madness and psychiatry in East Asian countries in the modern period History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Akihito Suzuki, Wen-Ji Wang
In the past decades, there has been an increasing scholarly interest in understanding the development of psychiatry and mental health in non-Western worlds in the modern period. Several collective ...
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Shūzō Kure’s essay on psychotherapy including music in twentieth-century Japan (1916) History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Yuki Mitsuhira
This study offers a historical introduction to psychiatry and music therapy in Japan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, followed by English translations of related excerpts from ...
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The ‘insanity’ of Lady Durham History of Psychiatry (IF 0.579) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Ruth Paley
This essay draws on evidence in a late nineteenth-century court case and surviving medical notes to provide a case study of a hitherto unidentified case of Autism Spectrum Disorder. The case is particularly interesting in that it not only appears to be the first identification of historical ASD in a female, but also because the patient subsequently developed symptoms of psychosis suggestive of schizophrenia