History of Psychiatry

• Abrahamsen, David, Murder and Madness: The Secret Life of Jack the Ripper, Avon, 1993
• Alexander, Franz et al. The History of Psychiatry: an evaluation of psychiatric thought and practice from prehistoric times to the present, (paperback edition) New York, Harper & Row, 1995
• Aronowitz, Robert A., Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease (Cambridge History of Medicine), Cambridge Univ Press, 1998
• Review by David J.A. Jenkins, The New England Journal of Medicine, July 30, 1998, Volume 339, Number 5
• Reviewed by Guenter B. Risse, Philadelphia Inquirer, September 6, 1998
• Awbrey, David S., Finding Hope in the Age of Melancholy, Little Brown & Company, 1999
• Barstow, Anne Llewellyn Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts Pandora, New York, 1994; Reprint edition HarperSanFrancisco, 1995
• Review by Amy Leonard, New York Times Book Review, Sunday Feb 6, 1994 p22 col 4
• Review by Serinity Young, Ms. Magazine March-April 1994 v4 n5 p76(2)
• Review by R.B. Barnes, CHOICE Nov 1994 v32 n3 p511(1)
• Review by Andrea Chase, Whole Earth Review Winter 1994 n84 p20(2)
• Review by Tanice G. Foltz, Gender & Society August 1995 v9 n4 p514(3)
• Review by Frances E. Dolan, Renaissance Quarterly Spring 1997 v50 n1 p341(2)
• Barton, Walter E., The History and Influence of the American Psychiatric Association, Amer Psychiatric Press, 1987
• Berrios, German E. and Porter, Roy (Editors) A History of Clinical Psychiatry: The Origin and History of Psychiatric Disorders New York Univ Pr 1995
• Review by Lloyd A. Wells, The New England Journal of Medicine -- April 25, 1996 -- Volume 334, Number 17
• Berrios, German E., The History of Mental Symptoms: Descriptive Psychopathology Since the Nineteenth Century Cambridge Univ Press, 1996
• Braslow, Joel, Mental Ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Medicine and Society. Vol. 8.), University of California Press, 1997
• Review by Edward Shorter, Ph.D., The New England Journal of Medicine, January 15, 1998, Volume 338, Number 3
• Review by Gerald Grob, The Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72.2, Summer 1998
• Capshew, James H., Psychologists on the March: Science, Practice, and Professional Identity in America, 1929-1969 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology), Cambridge Univ Press, 1998
• Cocks, Geoffrey Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The Goring Institute 2nd Rev Edition Transaction Pub 1997
• Review of first edition byJohn Gross, New York Times, January 18, 1985
• Review of first edition by Robert Jay Lifton, New York Times, Sunday January 27, 1985
• Cohen, Sherrill, The Evolution of Women's Asylums Since 1500: From Refuges for Ex-Prostitutes to Shelters for Battered Women (Studies in the History of Sexuality), Oxford Univ Press, 1992
• Review by Louise A. Tilly, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70.4 (1996) 713-715
• Conrad, Peter, Modern Times, Modern Places: How Life and Art Were Transformed in a Century of Revolution, Innovation, and Radical Change, Knopf, 1999
• Review by Terry Eagleton, Newsreel History, LRB Vol 20, No 22 | cover date 12 November 1998
• Cushman, Philip, Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy Addison-Wesley 1997
• Review by Michiko Kakutani, The Self and Those Who Tend It, New York Times, Friday March 31, 1995
• Review by Hans Pols, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 71.1 (1997) 180-181
• Dowbiggin, Ian Robert , Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940 (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry), Cornell Univ Press, 1998
• Dowdall, George W., The Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital: Policy, Stigma, and Organization, New York Press, 1996
• Review by Ellen Dwyer, The Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72.2, Summer 1998
• Drinka, George Birth of Neurosis: Myth, Malady, and the Victorians Simon & Schuster 1984
• Review by Rosemany Dinnage, Hysteria was for Women, Neurasthenia for Men, New York Times, Sunday September 9, 1984
• Eigen, Joel Peter, Witnessing Insanity: Madness and Mad-Doctors in the English Court, Yale Univ Press, 1995
• Review by Jacques M. Quen, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70.2 (1996) 315-316
• Engel, William E., Mapping Mortality: The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy in Early Modern England (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture), Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1995
• Review by George Rousseau, The Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72.3, Fall 1998
• Gamwell, Lynn and Tomes, Nancy, Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness Before 1914 (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry) Cornell U Press, 1995
• Review by Andrew Skull, L.A. Times, Sunday, March 30, 1997
• Review by Norman Dain, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 71.3 (1997) 538-539
• Geller, Jeffrey L. and Maxine Harris Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945 Anchor Books, New York, 1994
•  Goetz, Christopher G., Michel Bonduelle, and Toby Gelfand, Charcot: Constructing Neurology, Oxford Univ Press, 1995
• Review by Howard I. Kushner, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 71.1 (1997) 164-166
• Goodman, Jordan, Paul E. Lovejoy, Andrew Sherratt (Editors) Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology, Routledge, 1995
• Grob, Gerald N. The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America's Mentally Ill The Free Press, New York, 1994
• Review by W.B. Dragoin, CHOICE Sept 1994 v32 n1 p152(1)
• Review by E. Fuller Torrey, Washington Monthly March 1994 v26 n3 p59(2)
• Review by Zigmond M. Lebensohn, American Journal of Psychiatry Dec 1994 v151 n12 p1832(2)
• Review by David F. Musto, TLS, Times Literary Supplement March 31, 1995 n4800 p6(1)
• Review by Julie V. Brown, Contemporary Sociology Sept 1995 v24 n5 p700(3)
• Review by Eric A. Plaut, Social Service Review Dec 1995 v69 n4 p735(2)
• Review by John C. Burnham, Social Science Quarterly March 1996 v77 n1 p235(2)
• Review by Constance M. McGovern, Journal of Social History Fall 1996 v30 n1 p272(3)
• Review by Andrew Scull, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70.1 (1996) 161-162
• Review by Harriet Baldwin, Richard Greer, and Harriet Shetler, NAMI Literature Committee
• Gross, Charles G., and Patrick Grim, Brain Vision Memory: Tales in the History of Neuroscience, MIT Press, 1998
• Hacking, Ian, Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1995)
• Review by Stuart Sutherland, Nature April 27, 1995 v374 n6525 p843(1)
• Review by Terence Penelhum, The Dalhousie Review Summer-Fall 1995 v75 n2 p272(3)
• Review by Forrester, John, New Statesman & Society June 23 1995, v8, n358, p39(2)
• Review by Barham, Peter; Osborne, Thomas; Lynch, Michael, History of the Human Sciences Nov 1995, v8, n4, p107(24)
• Review by Crowder, I.G., CHOICE Nov 1995, v33, n3, p545(2)
• Review by Nye, Robert A., Isis Dec 1995, v86, n4, p622(3)
• Review by Eghigian, Greg A., The American Journal of Sociology Jan 1996, v101, n4, p1150(3)
• Review by Graham, George, Ethics July 1996, v106, n4, p845(4)
• Review by Nuckolls, Charles W., American Anthropologist Sept 1996, v98, n3, p621(2)
• Review by Schechtman, Marya, Mind Oct 1996, v105, n420, p699(5)
• Review by Littlewood, Roland, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Dec 1996, v2, n4, p744(2)
• Review by Allen, Barry, History and Theory Feb 1997, v36, n1, p63(20)
• Review by Snowdon, Paul F., TLS. Times Literary Supplement April 18 1997, n4907, p12(1)
• Review by Christian Perring, The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 47, 1997, pp. 531-3
• Review by Claudia Card, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, APA Newsletters, 1998, v. 97, no. 2, pp. 73-4.
• Hacking, Ian, Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses, University Press of Virginia, 1998
• Review by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, What made Albert run, London Review of Books, 27 May 1999
• Review by Rachel Cooper, Metapsychology, Sept 2, 1999
• Healy, David, The Antidepressant Era, Harvard University Press, 1998
• Review by Myrna M. Weissman, Ph.D., The New England Journal of Medicine, May 14, 1998, Volume 338, Number 20
• Review by Merton Sandler, Science, June 12, 1998 v280 n5370 p1709(2)
• Review by Mark S. Micale, TLS. Times Literary Supplement, Oct 30, 1998 n4987 p8(2)
• Review by Jonathan Metzl, Metapsychology Book Review November, 1998
• Herman, Ellen, The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts, Univ California Press, 1996
• Review by Hans Pols, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 71.1 (1997) 181-182
• Hock, Roger R., Forty Studies That Changed Psychology: Explorations into the History of Psychological Research 3 Ed, Prentice Hall Trade, 1998
• Jackson, Stanley W., Melancholia and Depression: From Hippocratic Times to Modern Times, Reprint Edition Paperback Yale Univ Pr, 1990
• Review by Robert M.A. Hirschfeld, That Old Let-Down Feeling, New York Times, Sunday April 5, 1987
• Jenkins, Philip, Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America, Yale University Press, 1998
• Jones, Kathleen Asylums and After: A Revised History of the Mental Health Services : From the Early 18th Century to the 1990s Athlone Pr 1994
• Review by Andrew Scull, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70.1 (1996) 161-162
• Kushner, Howard, I., A Cursing Brain?: The Histories of Tourette Syndrome, Harvard University Press, 1999
• Review by Jonathan Lethem, Salon, April 6, 1999
• Lunbeck, Elizabeth, The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America, Princeton Univ Press, 1996
• Review by Susan Stanford Friedman, The Women's Review of Books Sept 1994 v11 n12 p7(2)
• Review by W.F. Bynum, The Lancet Sept 10, 1994 v344 n8924 p738(1)
• Review by Tom Lutz, From Crazy to Sick, The New York Times Book Review Oct 16, 1994 p26 col 1
• Review by K.S. Milar, CHOICE Dec 1994 v32 n4 p678(2)
• Review by James H. Jones, Journal of American History Sept 1995 v82 n2 p785(2)
• Review by Minna Uimonen, BJHS The British Journal for the History of Science Sept 1995 v28 n98 p358(2)
• Review by Edward Shorter, American Historical Review Dec 1995 v100 n5 p1709(2)
• Review by Beryl Satter, Journal of Social History Winter 1995 v29 n2 p447(3)
• Review by Joel Haycock, Contemporary Sociology March 1996 v25 n2 p250(3)
• Review by Nicole Hahn Rafter, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Fall 1996 v27 n2 p349(1)
• Review by Bennett Simon, Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes Winter 1996 v59 n4 p336(20)
• Review by Stephanie Kiceluk, Michigan Quarterly Review Spring 1997 v36 n2 p355(6)
• Review Essay by Jack D. Pressman, Psychiatry and Its Origins, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 71.1 (1997) 129-139
• Lutz, Tom American Nervousness, 1903 : An Anecdotal History Cornell Univ Pr 1993
• Review by Michael Vincent Miller, Anybody Who Was Anybody Was Neurasthenic, New York Times, Sunday July 7, 1991
• Lyons, Albert S., Joseph Petrucelli, Medicine: An Illustrated History, Abradale Press, 1997
• McCulloch, Jock, Colonial Psychiatry and 'the African Mind', Cambridge Univ Press, 1995
• Review by Timothy Burke, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70.3 (1996) 564-565
• Masson, Jeffrey M., Loring, Marianne A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century Farrar Straus & Giroux 1986
• Review by Johnston, Jill, Ms. Magazine Feb 1987, v15, p17(2)
• Review by Showalter, Elaine, The New Republic March 16 1987, v196, p38(4)
• Review by Micale, Mark S.,  Partisan Review Summ 1987, v54, p485(9)
• Micale , Mark S. and Roy Porter (Editors), Discovering the History of Psychiatry, Oxford Univ Press, 1994
• Micale, Mark S., Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations, Princeton Univ Press, 1995
• Review by Nancy Tomes, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 71.1 (1997) 166-167
• Millman, Ernest Joel, and  Leo Srole, Personal History and Health: The Midtown Longitudinal Study, 1954 - 1974, Transaction Pub, 1997
• Murray, Alexander, Suicide in the Middle Ages: The Violent Against Themselves, Oxford Univ Press, 1997
• Noll, Steven, Feeble-Minded in Our Midst : Institutions for the Mentally Retarded in the South, 1900-1940, Univ of North Carolina Press, 1996
• Review by E. H. Beardsley, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70.4 (1996) 734-735
• Noyes, John K. The Mastery of Submission: Inventions of Masochism (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry) Cornell University Press 1997
• Pfister, Joel and Nancy Schnog (Editors), Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America, Yale Univ Press, 1997
• Porter, Roy, William Bynum, M. Shepherd (Editors) The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry, People and Ideas Routledge Kegan & Paul 1986
• Porter, Roy, A Social History of Madness: The World Through the Eyes of the Insane, Obelisk, 1989
• Porter, Roy, German E. Berrios (Editors), A History of Clinical Psychiatry : The Origin and History of Psychiatric Disorders, New York Univ Press, 1995
• Porter, Roy, editor, Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine, Cambridge Univ Press, 1996
• Review by Leonard G. Wilson, The Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72.1, Spring 1998
• Porter, Roy and Mikulas Teich (Editors), Drugs and Narcotics in History, Cambridge Univ Press, 1997
• Review by  J. Worth Estes, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70.3 (1996) 561-562
• Porter, Roy (Editor), Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present, Routledge, 1997
• Porter, Roy, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity, W.W. Norton & Company, 1998
• Review by Amanda Foreman, The Independent, November 15, 1997
• Review by Mark Prendergrast, Victims of Memory, The Independent, January 3, 1998
• Review by David Hollinger, Why We Are So Healthy Now, New York Times, May 3, 1998
• Review by Winifred Gallaher, Here's To Our Health, Washington Post Book Review, May 10, 1998
• Review by George Scialabba, A healing history, Boston Globe, Sunday May 17, 1998
• Review by Toby Gelfand, The New England Journal of Medicine, July 2, 1998, Volume 339, Number 1
• Reviewed by Ed Voves, HMS Beagle, September 18, 1998, Issue 38
• Porter, Roy (Editor), Medicine: A History of Healing: Ancient Traditions to Modern Practices, Marlowe & Co, 1998
• Pressman, Jack David, Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine, (Cambridge History of Medicine), Cambridge University Press, 1998
• Review by Leon Eisenberg, The New England Journal of Medicine, December 3, 1998, Volume 339, Number 23
• Reed, Edward S., From Soul to Mind: The Emergence of Psychology, from Erasmus Darwin to William James, Yale University Press, 1998
• Rieber, Robert W., Kurt D. Salzinger, Psychology: Theoretical-Historical Perspectives 2 Edition, American Psychological Associaction, 1998
• Rèoder, Thomas, Volker Kubillus & Anthony Burwell, Psychiatrists: the men behind Hitler: the architects of horror, Freedom Publishing
• Rogers, Carl R., Peter Kramer (Introduction), On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotheraphy, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1995
• Roudinesco, Elisabeth, Martin Thom (Translator), Madness and Revolution: The Lives and Legends of Theroigne De Mericourt, Verso Books, 1993
• Santner, Eric L., My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity, Princeton Univ Press, 1998
• Review by Chandak Sengoopta, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 71. (1997) 353-354
• Sareyan, Alex The Turning Point: How Persons of Conscience Brought About Major Change in the Care of America's Mentally Ill Herald Press, 1994
• Scull, Andrew T., Charlotte MacKenzie, Nicholas Hervey, Masters of Bedlam: The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade, Princeton Univ Press, 1996
• Review by Patrick McGrath, L. A. Times, Sunday, March 30, 1997
• Review by Robert Coles Boston Book Review
• Review by Charlotte MacKenzie and Nicholas Hervey ,Masters of Bedlam: The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade, The Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72.3, Fall 1998
• Shorter, E. From Paralysis to Fatigue: A history of psychosomatic illness in the modern era (Free Press, 1992)
• Review by Michiko Kakutani, As Society Changes, So Too Do the Illnesses, New York Times, Tuesday December 10, 1991
• Review by Nadelson, Theodore, American Journal of Psychiatry August 1992, v149, n8, p1109(2)
• Review by Hughes, Judith M., The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Autumn 1992, v23, n2, p346(3)
• Review by Grob, Gerald N., Journal of Social History Fall 1992, v26, n1, p210(2)
• Review by Hollander, RussellThe Historian Wntr 1993, v55, n2, p403(2)
• Review by Salmon, Peter, The Lancet Jan 30 1993, v341, n8840, p293(1)
• Review by Angelino, Andrew F., JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association March 3 1993, v269, n9, p1187(1)
• Review by Figert, Anne E., Contemporary Sociology July 1993, v22, n4, p604(2)
• Review by Armstrong, David, Isis Sept 1993, v84, n3, p611(2)
• Review by Comacchio, Cynthia R., Canadian Historical Review Dec 1993, v74, n4, p604(4)
• Review by Porter, Roy, The Journal of Modern History March 1994, v66, n1, p126(4)
• Shorter, Edward, From the Mind Into the Body; The Cultural Origins of Psychosomatic Symptoms, Free Pr., 1993
• Review by Klitzman, Robert, The New York Times Book Review Jan 16 1994, p22, col 4
• Review by Jones, R.L., CHOICE April 1994, v31, n8, p1370(1)
• Review by Horwitz, Allan V., Contemporary Sociology Nov 1994, v23, n6, p891(3)
• Review by Holmes CA (1996) Body and Society 2(1):113-119.
• Review by Denton, Donald D., Jr., American Journal of Psychiatry April 1996, v153, n4, p573(1)
• Shorter, Edward A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
• Review by John C. Marshall, Nature March 27, 1997 v386 n6623 p346(1)
• Review by Scull, Andrew, Times Literary Supplement May 16 1997, n4911, p8(3)
• Review by Harrison G. Pope, The New England Journal of Medicine July 3, 1997 v337 n1 p57(2)
• Review by Christian Perring in Perspectives: A Mental Health Magazine, Vol. 2. Issue 3, July - August, 1997
• Revew by Michael T. McGuire, JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association Sep 17, 1997 v278 n11 p949(2)
• Review by Herman, Ellen, Journal of American History Dec 1997, v84, n3, p1033(2)
• Review by Constance M. McGovern, Journal of Social History, Winter 1998 v32 i2 p420(3)
• Review by William F. Gabrielli Jr., CHOICE, May 1998 v35 n9 pS20(1)
• Review by John C. Spurlock, History: Review of New Books, Spring 1998 v26 n3 p155(2)
• Review by Gerald Grob, The Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72.1, Spring 1998
• Review by Jennifer D. McKay, Journal of Child and Family Studies, Dec 1998 v7 i4 p521(3)
• Showalter, Elaine, The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980, Virago, London, 1987; Pantheon, 1986.
• Review by Anthony Storr, Crazy By Definition, New York Times, Sunday, January 19, 1986
• Review by Harris, Ruth, Signs Wntr 1990, v15, n2, p408(3)
• Smith, Mickey C., A Social History of the Minor Tranquilizers: The Quest for Small Comfort in the Age of Anxiety, Pharmaceutical Products Press, New York, 1991
• Smith, Theresa C., and Thomas A. Oleszczuk, No Asylum: State Psychiatric Repression in the Former USSR, New York Univ Press, 1996
• Review by Paul Chodoff, The Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72.3, Fall 1998
• Stone, Michael H., MD, Healing the Mind: A History of Psychiatry from Antiquity to the Present W W Norton & Co 1997
• Sutton, Nina, translated by David Sharp Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy BasicBooks 1996; Westview Press, 1997
• Review by Rosemary Dinnage, The Survivor in New York Review of Books, June 20, 1996
• Tallis, Frank, Changing Minds: The History of Psychotherapy As an Answer to Human Suffering, Cassell Academic, 1999 Taylor, Jenny and Sally Shuttleworth, Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts, 1830-1890, Clarendon Press, 1998
• Trent, James W., Jr, Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States, Univ California Press, 1995
• Review by Edward J. Larson, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70.4 (1996) 733-734
• Valenstein, Elliot, Great and Desparate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness (Basic Books, New York; 1986)
• Review by John Gross, New York Times, Tuesday April 1, 1986
• Review by Stanley W. Jackson, Cruel and Unusual Medicine, New York Times, Sunday April 6, 1986
• Vandereycken, Walter, From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation, New York Univ Press, 1994
• Veroff, Joseph, Elizabeth Douvan and Richard A. Kulka, The Inner American: A Self Portrait from 1957 to 1976,  Book Sales, 1985
• Review by Kenneth Keniston, The Mood of Americans Today, New York Times, Sunday November 8, 1981
• Veroff, Joseph, Richard A. Kulka, and  Elizabeth Douvan, Mental Health in America, 1957 to 1976, Basic Books, 1981
• Review by Kenneth Keniston, The Mood of Americans Today, New York Times, Sunday November 8, 1981
• Viney, Wayne and D. Brett King  A History of Psychology: Ideas and Context, 2nd Edition Allyn & Bacon 1997
• Wachtel, Paul L. and Stanley B. Messer (Editors) Theories of Psychotherapy: Origins and Evolution Amer Psychological Assn 1997
• Weeks, Jeffrey, Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, Quartet Books, London, 1977
• Winter, Alison, Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain, University of Chicago Press, 1998
• Review by Ian Hacking, Mind Over Matter, New York Review of Books, March 18, 1999
• Wiseman, Bruce, Psychiatry: The Ultimate Betrayal, Freedom Publishing, 1995