An unidentified Magdalene laundry in Ireland in the early twentieth century.
The Making of Ireland’s Carceral State
The Ageing Body, Memory-Loss and Suicide in Georgian England
The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy
Madness & misery in Antarctica
Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria’s ‘Romantic Science’ and Soviet Social History
‘More than a defence against bills’: feminism and national identity in the Scottish abortion campaign, c. 1975–1990
American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics
The German Experiment that Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles
The Snake Pit: Mixing Marx with Freud in Hollywood
See clip from the film here: The Snake Pit
Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War: A Study of Austerity on London’s Fringe
DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible
The Curious Case of Aleksandar Milivojević: The Donja Toponica Hospital and Mental Health in Socialist Yugoslavia
Looking Back: The Important Role of Science in Fulfilling the Occupational Safety and Health Act
Literacy, Advocacy and Agency: The Campaign for Political Recognition of Dyslexia in Britain (1962–1997)
An Anarchist View from Havana: Isbel Diaz Torres
The story of America: the Kerner report, national leadership, and liberal renewal, 1967-1968
The rhetorical use of B. F. Skinner in evolutionary psychology
Why Swedes Trust the State and Scots Do Not: An Exploration of the Diverse Protestant Roots of Modern Welfare Systems
‘Flash houses’: Public houses and geographies of moral contagion in 19th-century London
The staff of madness: The visualization of insanity and the othering of the insane
History of Psychiatry | Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department
A fool, beginning of Psalm 52. Bible du XIIIe siècle. 1475(?); Rouen, France
Britain’s Swinging Sixties: everything you wanted to know
Normality: A collection of essays
Helping Troubled Children and Cultivating the Race: The Mental Hygienic Guidance Centres of the Public Health Association of Swedish Finland, 1930s–1950s
Against all odds: achieving collective action among home care workers in Oregon
Sixties Europe
The Empire of Depression: A New History
Happy 150th to York’s ‘Einstein of the welfare state’
Social reformer: Seebohm Rowntree
Beveridge on idleness
Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia: From Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin
Deinstitutionalization Through Optimism: The Community Mental Health Act of 1963
The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America
All the Single Ladies: Women-Only Buildings in Early 20th-Century New York
NYHS | N Harkrader
Completed in 1906, the Trowmart picked up on the ideas put into practice at the Martha Washington and, for the first time, provided accommodation for the working-class girl without the strict rules of a “Moral Home.”
The past, present, and future of western alienation
The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence
Devolved psychiatries – Professor Rab Houston
The Promise and Demise of LSD Psychotherapy in Norway
Normal enough? Krafft-Ebing, Freud, and homosexuality
In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Spring, Arkansas, 1890-1940 Elliott Bowen
In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Spring, Arkansas, 1890-1940, BowenElliott, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. 218. $49.95. ISBN 9781421438566.
Melancholia Scytharum: the early modern psychiatry of transgender identification
Child Labor/Child Welfare
VCU: SWHP | L Hine/LoC
Child welfare is an all encompassing term covering a broad swath of American social welfare initiatives, policies programs and organizations concerned with child labor, orphans, foster care, child abuse, child care and elementary education.
Poorhouses Were Designed to Punish People for Their Poverty
History.com | Mansell/LIFE Picture Collection/Getty
Homeless men coming for shelter in 19th century London.
Shame and silences: children’s emotional experiences of insecurity and violence in postwar Finnish families
American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century
Reconsidering Paul Meehl’s disciplinary legacy
Reframing the History of the Competition Concept: Neoliberalism, Meritocracy, Modernity
“So delightful a temporary home”: The Material Culture of Domesticity in Late Nineteenth-century English Convalescent Institutions
Mental Hygiene, Psychoanalysis, and Interwar Psychology: The Making of the Maternal Deprivation Hypothesis
“Better red than dead”: Socialism in British Public Schools, 1900–1918
Discourses on im/migrants, ethnic minorities, and infectious disease: Fifty years of tuberculosis reporting in the United Kingdom
