... from the history of psychiatry
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Annotated Case Histories...
Accounts...
Biographies...
Famous Patients...
In the news...
Controversies...
Reviews...
Diagnoses...
Hospitals...
Images...
Poetry...Film...
Psychotherapies...
Somatic Therapies...
Bibliographies...
Articles...
Syllabi...
Links...
comments & suggestions...
and...


Annotated case histories ...           [click between the bold brackets for related articles and reviews.]
Feigned madness  [1 Samuel 21]
A pathogenic secret from Galen [131-201 A.D.]
Melancholia from Rufus of Ephesus
Hugo van der Goes [1481]
Possession [1486] Kramer & Sprenger
Koro ? [1486] Kramer & Sprenger
Incubus. (1563) Johann Weyer.
MPD ? [1791] Benjamin Rush.
Catching the patient's eye.[1792] William Pargeter
a man...of almost Heruclean size and figure [1792/1813] Samuel Tuke
Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénatione mentale, [1801] Philippe Pinel
James Tilley Mathews(1810)...John Haslam.
Chronic Arachnitis, Monomania, Dementia [1822] A. L. J. Bayle.    [General Paresis of the Insane]
from Maladies Mentale [1838] J. E. D. Esquirol
OCD? [1838]J. E. D. Esquirol.
A Hypnotic Cure. [1841] James Braid.              [Hypnotism & Magnetism]
A Magnetic Cure. [1843] Alphonse Teste.        [Hypnotism & Magnetism]
Abram Simmons. [1844] Dorthea Lynde Dix.
Blacksmith...Agent for some western railroad...A colored servant woman [1854] case notes, American.
A case...in which death from neglect appeared imminent[1856] John Conolly
from A Manual of Medical Psychology. [1858] John Charles Bucknill and Daniel H. Tuke
An officer...indulged in...excesses. [1860]Wilhelm Griesinger
Lovesickness. [1860] Wilhelm Griesinger
Masturbation and Madness. [1860] Wilhelm Griesinger
a lady of ample means...but completely exhausted...[1874] S. Weir Mitchell.
Unconscious acts and the doubling of personality. [1886] Pierre Janet.                                  [Hypnotism & Magnetism]
preceeding her menstruations...she became gloomy and violent. [1889] Pierre Janet. [Psychotherapies]
A woman, 51 years of age  presented... ideas of jealousy concerning her husband...  Alois Alzheimer[Alzheimer's Disease]
Dementia Praecox and masturbation. [1904] Emil Kraepelin
A peculiar form of disease occurring mostly in young women, and characterized by extreme emaciation
Shell Shock, case # 3, [1915]...Charles Myers.   [PTSD]
Munchausen's Syndrome, case #1, [1951]...Richard Asher

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Accounts...
this creature went out of her mind and was wonderly vexed and labored with spirits. (1432) Margery Kempe
the demon only acted according to the openings I gave him. [1632] Jeanne des Anges
Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945. Geller, J. L. & Harris, M., eds.
Modern persecution, or Insane asylums unveiled... Mrs. E. P. W. Packard (1816-1897)
In the Land of Pain. (1872-1888) Alphonse Daudet
an infinite succession of conscious abandonments. [1890]... Alice James
Autobiography ? [1901]... William James
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. [1903] Daniel Paul Schreber
The Loony Bin Trip. Kate Millet
The End of Two Roads. Anonymous
Social, Economic and Medical Effects of Schizophrenia. Anonymous

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Famous Patients...
King George III.
Marquis de Sade.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Vincent van Gogh
Sigfried Sassoon.
Ezra Pound.
John Hinckley

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Film...
Symptoms of Schizophrenia. (ca. 1940)
Mental Illness in Films
A Rare Day: The Movies Get Mental Illness Right. Erica Goode
I Shot Andy Warhol.

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Poetry...
Having it out With Melancholy. Jane Kenyon
Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portionWilliam Cowper
Red-Headed Intern Taking Notes. Ramon Guthrie
Wanting to Die. Anne Sexton
A Dream within a Dream. Edgar Allan Poe
The Mental Status Exam. Raphael Campo
The Space Heater. Sharon Olds
Insane Treatment: "A Lament for Departed Friends". Lloyd Wagner
Mental Cases... Wilfred Owen
Visits to St. Elizabeths. Elizabeth Bishop

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Images...

           Géricault's Assassin
Rush's Tranquilizer Chair
A Ward of Disturbed Women in a Mental Hospital. Telemaco Signorini (1865)
Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière. A. Brouillet (1887)
Anorexia Nervosa (1866)
The Madness of Hugo van der Goes, 1872. Emile Wauters (1846-1933)
Pinel Orders the Chains Removed from the Insane at Bicêtre. [1849] C-L. Muller
The Madwomen of the Salpêtrière. [1855] Amand Gautier
Pinel Liberating the Insane. [1878] T. R. Fleury
Corridor in the Asylum. (1889) Vincent Van Gogh
Wahsinn [Madness]. Anton J. Weirtz
Victims of Possession. Based on Breughel.
Sigmund Freud's Consulting Room

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Hospitals...

           Hogarth's Rake in Bedlam
Charenton Hospital
Abandoned Asylums.
Kirkbride Buildings.
Manteno State Hospital.
Danvers State Hospital. Michael Ramseur
McLean Hospital.
St. Elizabeth's Hospital.
Moral Treatment at the End of the Oregon Trail.
Friends' Asylum.
Menninger Clinic.

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Somatic Therapies...
Dr. Joseph Goldberger & the War on Pellagra. Alan Kraut
     Electrotherapies
An American Treatment for the 'American Nervousness': George Miller Beard's General Electrization. Ed Brown
Electroshock Therapy Introduced [1938]
Ugo Cerletti and the discovery of Electroshock.
Old and New Information about Electroshock. [1950] Ugo Cerletti.
 Shock and Disbelief. Daniel Smith
     Psychosurgery
Moniz develops Lobotomy for Mental Illness [1935]
Last resort: Psychosurgery and the limits of medicine. Jack D Pressman.
     Insulin Coma Therapy
The Insulin Treatment of Schizophrenia...(1944) William Sargant & Eliot Slater
Insulin Coma Therapy. Max Fink
     Psychopharmacology
Drug for treating Schizophrenia Identified [1952]
Drug Treatments in Modern Psychiatry: The History of a Delusion. Joanna Moncreif
The History of the psychopharmacology of schizophrenia. Heinz Lehmann & Thomas Ban
Psychopharmacology and the Government of the Self. David Healy
The Antidepressant Era. David Healy.
The Creation of Psychopharmacology. David Healy.
The David Healy Affair

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Psychotherapies...
The Neurological Origins of Psychoanalysis. Raymond Fancher
James Jackson Putnam and the Legacy of Liberal Protestantism in Early American Psychotherapy. Rachael Rosner
Jeffrey Masson and Freud's Seduction Theory, Allen Esterson

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Hypnotism, Animal Magnetism...
Propositions Concerning Animal Magnetism. (1779) Franz Anton Mesmer.
Mesmeric Revelation. (1850) Edgar Allan Poe
Svengali treats Trilby's neuralgia. [1894] George du Maurier
 

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Diagnoses ...
Hysteria Hysteria. Margaret Talbot
Notes on Nostalgia. Ed Brown
Depression Simmers in Japan's Culture of Stoicism. Howard W. French
How homosexuality was read out of the DSM in 1973, Alix Spiegel
Doctors Consider Diagnosis for 'Ill' Relationships. Shankar Vedantam
     General Paresis
French Psychiatry's Initial Response to Bayle's Discovery of General Paresis of the Insane. Ed Brown
Why Wagner-Jauregg Won the Nobel Prize for Discovering Malaria Therapy for General Paresis. Ed Brown
General paresis of the insane: a disgnostic dilemma [1998] Mazumdar & Razali
     Alzheimer's
Rediscovery of the case described by Alois Alzheimer in 1911.
     PTSD
Emotional Trauma and the Development of the Idea of Neurosis in the United States: 1865-1930. Ed Brown
The Repression of War Experience. (1917) W.H.R. Rivers.
The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Allan Young
A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century. Ben Shephard

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Biographies...
Eugen Bleuler
I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister and my brother. Michel Foucault
I, Pierre Rivière...[An Interview with Michel Foucault, 1976].
Valentin Magnan, French psychiatry, and the classification of mental diseases, 1885-1925. Ian Dowbiggin.
Clifford W. Beers.
Hahnemann - the Real Pioneer of Psychiatry.  Peter Morrell.
Albert Deutsch

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In the news...
Leading Drugs for Psychosis Come Under New Scrutiny. Erica Goode
Doctor Admits He Did Needles Surgery on the Mentally Ill. Cliffford Levy
In Bagdad's Anarchy, the Insane Went Free. Patrick Tyler
Cruelest Choice Faces Parents of  Mentally Ill. Shaila K. Dewan
A Psychiatrist's-eye View of Murder and Insanity. Anastasia Toufexis
Pataki's Proposed Budget Overhauls Mental Care. Clifford J. Levy
Recovered Memory Critic Appointed to Sex Abuse Panel. Anthony DePalma & Laurie Goodstein
Forcing mentally ill on Trial to take drugs. Linda Greenhouse
State Can Make Inmate Sane Enough to Execute. Adam Liptak

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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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