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Madness in Republican China

  • Fabien Simonis
  • 5 minute read
A review of Spits, Chains, and Hospital Beds: A History of Madness in Republican Beijing, 1912-1938, by Emily Lauren Baum.…
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Multiple Personality & Social Movements

  • Elizabeth Fein
  • 7 minute read
A review of Know Thyselves: Theorizing Multiple Personality through Social Movements, by Jennifer Taylor. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known…
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Culture of Mental Health in Oaxaca

  • Jethro Hernandez-Berrones
  • 6 minute read
A review of The Culture of Mental Health in a Changing Oaxaca, by Whitney L. Duncan. The globalization of a…
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Automatic Writing in France 1857-1930

  • Andrea Graus
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A review of Scripting the Mind: Automatic Writing in France, 1857-1930, by Alexandra Katerina Bacopoulos-Viau. This excellent dissertation by Alexandra…
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Asperger’s Syndrome, Biomedicine & Identity

  • Michael Orsini
  • 6 minute read
A review of The Machine Within: An Ethnography of Asperger’s Syndrome, Biomedicine, and The Paradoxes of Identity and Technology in…
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West Riding Lunatic Asylum & Brain Science

  • Stephen T. Casper
  • 5 minute read
A review of The West Riding Lunatic Asylum and the Making of the Modern Brain Sciences in the Nineteenth Century,…
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Homosexual Panic in Literature, Psychiatry, Law

  • Janet Weston
  • 5 minute read
A review of Homosexual Panic: Unliveable Lives and the Temporality of Sexuality in Literature, Psychiatry and the Law, by Matthew…
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Psychiatry in Stalin’s Soviet Union

  • Simon Pawley
  • 6 minute read
A review of Scientific Psychiatry in Stalin’s Soviet Union: The Politics of Modern Medicine and the Struggle to Define ‘Pavlovian’…
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Depression & the “Real Me”

  • Susan Brown
  • 7 minute read
A review of The Real Me: Control, Responsibility and the Self in Depression, by Tamara Kayali. When an individual receives…
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The Origins of Autism Research

  • Stephen T. Casper
  • 9 minute read
A review of Mental Defectives, Childhood Psychotics and the Origins of Autism Research at the Maudsley Hospital, 1913-1983, by Bonnie…
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