Madness in Republican China
A review of Spits, Chains, and Hospital Beds: A History of Madness in Republican Beijing, 1912-1938, by Emily Lauren Baum. This widely researched dissertation explores…
Tag Archives: Mental Health
Multiple Personality & Social Movements
A review of Know Thyselves: Theorizing Multiple Personality through Social Movements, by Jennifer Taylor. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD),…
Culture of Mental Health in Oaxaca
A review of The Culture of Mental Health in a Changing Oaxaca, by Whitney L. Duncan. The globalization of a biomedical approach to mental health,…
Depression & the “Real Me”
A review of The Real Me: Control, Responsibility and the Self in Depression, by Tamara Kayali. When an individual receives a diagnosis for depression, there…
The Origins of Autism Research
A review of Mental Defectives, Childhood Psychotics and the Origins of Autism Research at the Maudsley Hospital, 1913-1983, by Bonnie Evans. Bonnie Evans’ excellent dissertation…