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History of Psychiatry: Madness, Science, Culture is the leading peer reviewed journal publishing research articles, analysis and information across the entire field of the history of mental illness and the forms of medicine, psychiatry, cultural response and social policy, which have evolved to understand and treat it. It covers all periods of history up to the present day, and all nations and cultures. View full journal description

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Reel worlds: Reconstructing the history of postwar child psychotherapy through fiction film

  • Tim Snelson
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Back to Karl Jaspers’ incomprehensibility of schizophrenia: A longitudinal approach

  • Valter L. Piedade
  • Guilherme Messas
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Between healing and repression: The role of medicine and psychiatry in Hohenschönhausen prison as reconstructed from memories

  • Felicitas Söhner
  • Kathleen Haack
  • Tilman Wickert
  • Ekkehardt Kumbier
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History of psychiatry: Madness, science, culture

  • Eric J. Engstrom
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The work of Donald Ewen Cameron: from psychic driving to MK Ultra

  • Jordan Torbay
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Ancient philosophers on mental illness

  • Marke Ahonen
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Moral insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of psychiatry

  • David W Jones
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The enhanced interrogator: Dr. James Mitchell’s perspectives on enhanced interrogation

  • Myles Balfe
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The work of Donald Ewen Cameron: from psychic driving to MK Ultra

  • Jordan Torbay
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Rosenhan revisited: successful scientific fraud

  • Andrew Scull
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Emil Kraepelin as a historian of psychiatry – one hundred years on

  • Burkhart Brückner
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