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: Psy Sciences
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,…
Automatic Writing in France 1857-1930
A review of Scripting the Mind: Automatic Writing in France, 1857-1930, by Alexandra Katerina Bacopoulos-Viau. This excellent dissertation by Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau explores automatic writing in…
Asperger’s Syndrome, Biomedicine & Identity
A review of The Machine Within: An Ethnography of Asperger’s Syndrome, Biomedicine, and The Paradoxes of Identity and Technology in the Late Modern United States,…
West Riding Lunatic Asylum & Brain Science
A review of The West Riding Lunatic Asylum and the Making of the Modern Brain Sciences in the Nineteenth Century, by Michael Anthony Finn. “We…
Homosexual Panic in Literature, Psychiatry, Law
A review of Homosexual Panic: Unliveable Lives and the Temporality of Sexuality in Literature, Psychiatry and the Law, by Matthew T. Helmers. Matthew T. Helmers’…
Psychiatry in Stalin’s Soviet Union
A review of Scientific Psychiatry in Stalin’s Soviet Union: The Politics of Modern Medicine and the Struggle to Define ‘Pavlovian’ Psychiatry, 1939-1953, by Benjamin Zajicek….
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…