The Emergence of Psychiatry: 1650–1850
For Ontario’s political establishment, cutting ‘welfare dependence’ means making the poor desperate
Protestors rally in downtown Toronto against the Mike Harris government, which slashed social assistance rates by 21.6 percent in the mid-1990s.
Pathologising ‘Refusal’: Prison, Health and Conscientious Objectors during the First World War
Progressives and Prison Labor: Rebuilding Ohio’s National Road during World War I
The Cult of Youth: Anti-Ageing in Modern Britain
Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers
How Welfare Worked in the Early United States: Five Microhistories. By Gabriel J. Loiacono
Public toilets for women: how female municipal councillors expanded the right to the city in Sweden, c. 1910–1925
The Historical Use of Restraints in Asylums
Developed by Dr. Benjamin Rush, the spinning tranquilizing chair required patients to be strapped in and with their eyes covered while the chair spun around in a circle. Based, in part, on the rotational theory, it was believed that spinning the patient in a controlled environment would help to reduce or eliminate congestion within the brain and, thus, curing mental illness.
The History of Bookmobiles
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Crying for Flicka: Boys, Young Men, and Emotion at the Cinema in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s
Eugenics and photography in Britain, the USA and Australia 1870–1940
Harry Harlow’s pit of despair: Depression in monkeys and men
Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France
RobcisCamille, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France, 2021, by Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
An Indigenous peoples’ history of the United States for young people
Kinder trespass — how class struggle won the right to ramble
On 24 April 1932, 500 young men and women participated in direct action to reclaim Kinder Scout in Derbyshire for the people. The trespass paved the way for legal changes that opened up swathes of land for ordinary people to enjoy, including the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act.
Psychology of eyewitness testimony in Germany in the 20th century.
The history of the psychology of eyewitness testimony cannot be adequately understood without taking the respective legal systems, that is inquisitorial versus adversarial system, into account. Across all periods, questions regarding the accuracy of testimony, its suggestibility, and intentional distortions in false accusations become apparent. We describe the history of the experimental psychology of testimony in Germany from the beginning of the 20th century until the time after the second world war. Louis William Stern and Otto Lipmann conceived and established a broad conception of Aussagepsychologie (psychology of report), attracting the collaboration of lawyers, pedagogues, and scholars from other disciplines to conduct laboratory and staged event experiments. They were successful in institutionalizing psychology and law by organizing interdisciplinary conferences, founding a journal, and testifying as experts in court. When appearing as experts, they encountered strong rivalry from psychiatrists. We also sketch some of the problems psychologists in Germany faced during the second world war. In our discussion, we stress the importance of legal, contextual, and sociocultural factors affecting both research outcomes and expert testimony, which appear to be parallel to present-day concerns. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
National service in Britain: why men who served don’t think we should bring it back
A poster from the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. Imperial War Museum
Power in psychiatry. Soviet peer and lay hierarchies in the context of political abuse of psychiatry
Uncommon Wealth—the toxic legacy of empire
The Empire Windrush ship
History and the psychoanalytic foundations of the Kestenberg Movement Profile
The History of Mental Health Policy
Jaipreet Virdi, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
VirdiJaipreet, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 328 pp.
A Maine shoemaker’s Potato Patch Plan feeds the poor
One of his aides told a reporter, “The Mayor proposes to find out if those elegant churches are only for show or for doing some real good.” They were for show…. The city’s wealthy families refused to contribute anything to the project.
Cowboy progressives
A Brief History of the Green New Deal (So Far)
History of Influenza Vaccination
Pioneering Social Research: Life Stories of a Generation
On Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and other Inmates, by Erving Goffman
Account of the present state of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of their Reason
‘A landmark in psychiatric progress’? The role of evidence in the rise and fall of insulin coma therapy
Hells Angels, Head Hunters and the Filthy Few: The History of Outlaw Bikers in Aotearoa New Zealand
Documenting insanity: Paperwork and patient narratives in psychiatric history
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture
History of Psychiatric Hospitals
Philadelphia Hospital for the Insane, Philadelphia, PA c. 1900
From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
Indian sex life: sexuality and the colonial origins of modern social thought
Eggs, O’Wheels, hexagons, repairs: lesbian feminist Utopias in Australia, 1970s–1980s
Criticism as self-analysis
Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788–1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents
The Rise of Mental Health Nursing | A History of Psychiatric Care in Dutch Asylums | 1890-1920
Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet Union: Residential childcare, 1958–91
The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital
Adaptation to the New Normal—Maternal Employment in the Framework of Psychosomatic and Stress Discourse in Finland from the 1950s to the Early 1970s
Building the Ancestral Public: Cemeteries and the Necropolitics of Property in Colonial Ghana
Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory
FossKatherine A., Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. 232 pp.
Psychological Knowledge and Practices in Brazilian Colonial Culture
Stressing the ‘body electric’: History and psychology of the techno-ecologies of work stress
