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"The
first one to seek cures by means of drugs…", Melampus and the daughters
of Proetus. [Greek Mythology]
Feigned
madness [1
Samuel 21]
A
pathogenic secret from Galen
[131-201 A.D.]
Melancholiafrom
Rufus
of Ephesus
Hugo
van der Goes [1481]
Possession[1486]
Kramer
& Sprenger
Koro?
[1486]
Kramer
& Sprenger
Incubus.
(1563)
Johann
Weyer.
Cure
after cataplasm and bleeding. G.
B. Morgagni [1761]
Post
Partum Depression ? (?) Denis
Diderot
MPD?
[1791]
Benjamin
Rush. [MPD]
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 diseaseoccurring mostly in young women, and characterized by
extreme emaciation
Disturbance
of Association. [1911] Eugen
Bleuler.
Shell
Shock, case # 3, [1915]...Charles
Myers. [PTSD]
A Case
of Possession. [1915] Donald Fraser. [MPD]
The
Doris Case of Multiple Personality. [1929] Walter Franklin Prince.
[MPD]
Munchausen's
Syndrome, case #1, [1951]...Richard Asher.
The Woman Who Decided Not
to Remember. [1994] Colin A. Ross. [MPD]
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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.
Astounding
Disclosures! Three Years In A Mad House. [1851] Isaac H. Hunt.
A Chapter
From Real Life. By A Recovered Patient. [1854] L.
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
'an
account written by a boy of 18 years who has had a definite schizophrenic
illness for at least a year'.
Bibliography
of First-Person Narratives of Madness. Gail
Hornstein.
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Texts
The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Robert Burton
A Mind that Found Itself.
Clifford Beers
Three Contributions to the
Theory of Sex. Sigmund Freud
History
of the Psychoanalytic Movement. Sigmund Freud (1914)
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Famous Patients...
King
George III.
Marquis de Sade.
Friedrich Hölderlin.
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...
Red-Headed
Intern Taking Notes. Ramon Guthrie
The
Mental Status Exam. Raphael Campo
The Space Heater.
Sharon Olds
Insane Treatment:
"A Lament for Departed Friends". Lloyd Wagner
My
Childhood Home I See Again, Part II. Abraham Lincoln.
Visits to
St. Elizabeths. Elizabeth
Bishop
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Images...
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Hospitals...
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Somatic Therapies...
Dr. Joseph Goldberger
& the War on Pellagra. Alan Kraut
Consequences
of Eugenics: The Contested Etiology of Pellagra. David Droge
The History
of Shock Therapy in Psychiatry. Renato M.E. Sabbatini.
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.
Controversial
Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize. Bengt Jansson.
The
History of Psychosurgery. Renato M.E. Sabbatini.
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
A Brief History
of Psychopharmacology. C. George Boeree.
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
Healing Power of Music. 1 Samuel 16:14-23
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
Samovars and Bedlam.
Michael
Ingall.
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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.
Joseph
Delboeuf and the History of Hypnosis. Ed Brown
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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
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.
Anxiety
Anxiety-Panic
History: Anxiety, Disorders and Treatments Throughout the Ages.
Arthur Anderson
MPD
Pierre
Janet and Félida Artificielle: Multiple Personality in a 19th Century
Guise. Ed Brown
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Biographies...
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.
Marie
Nyswander.
Saint
Dympna, patron saint of the insane.
Pierre
Janet.
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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
Clinical
Psychiatry in Imperial Germany: A History of Psychiatric Practice.Eric
J. Engstrom.
Perlman's
Ordeal. Brooks Hansen
You
Are Not A Stranger Here. Adam Haslett.
The Creation
of Psychopharmacology. David Healy.
Creating Mental
Illness. Allan V. Horvitz.
The
Cursing Brain: The Histories of Tourette's Syndrome. Howard Kushner
Hysterical
Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930.
Paul Lerner.
Motherless
Brooklyn.
Jonathan Lethem
Madness,
Cannabis and Colonialism. James H. Mills
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.
Madhouse:
A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine. Andrew Scull
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
Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present.
E. Fuller Torrey and Judy Miller.
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.
The Freud Wars
A Counterblast in
the War on Freud: The Shrink Is In. [1995] Jonathan Lear.
Freudian Suspicion
and Suspicion of Freud. [1995] Frederick Crews .
What is Mental Illness?
The Myth of
Mental Illness, (1960) Thomas Szasz.
The Insanity of
Psychiatry. [2000] Jim Peron
Is
Schizophrenia of Recent Origin?
The
Witch and the Demoniac in Tudor & Stuart England -Were They Insane?
[1994] Stephanie du Barry
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 & books... [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
The Geel
Story: An International Perspective. Jackie Goldstein.
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
Social Order/Mental
Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective. Andrew
T. Scull.
Mind, Brain and Adaptation
in the Nineteenth Century. Robert
M. Young
Freud:
Scientist and/or Humanist. Robert M. Young
Darwin,
Marx, Freud and the Foundations of the Human Sciences. Robert M. Young.
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Syllabi ...
Readings
in the History of Psychiatry. Mark Micale
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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