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Papers

(The median citation count of History of Psychiatry is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How did mental health become so biomedical? The progressive erosion of social determinants in historical psychiatric admission registers	13
The Goldwater Rule: a bastion of a bygone era?	9
‘The voice of the stomach’: the mind, hypochondriasis and theories of dyspepsia in the nineteenth century	5
Innovation in mental health care: Bertram Mandelbrote, the Phoenix Unit and the therapeutic community approach	5
Karl Leonhard (1904–88) and his academic influence through the ‘Erlangen School’	5
‘A landmark in psychiatric progress’? The role of evidence in the rise and fall of insulin coma therapy	5
Shock therapies in Spain (1939–1952) after the Civil War: Santa Isabel National Mental Asylum in Leganés	4
Happenstance and regulatory culture: the evolution of innovative community mental health services in Oxfordshire in the late twentieth century	4
British mental healthcare responses to adult homosexuality and gender non-conforming children at the turn of the twenty-first century	4
Emil Kraepelin as a historian of psychiatry – one hundred years on	3
The development of a creative work rehabilitation organisation	3
The processes and context of innovation in mental healthcare: Oxfordshire as a case study	3
Maoism and mental illness: psychiatric institutionalization during the Chinese Cultural Revolution	3
Power in psychiatry. Soviet peer and lay hierarchies in the context of political abuse of psychiatry	3
Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788–1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents	3
‘Regarding the scientific viewpoint in psychiatry’, lecture by Carl Wernicke (1880)	3
An overview on Hebephrenia, a diagnostic cornerstone in the neurodevelopmental model of Schizophrenia	3
‘Psychosis of civilization’: a colonial-situated diagnosis	3
Infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on Dutch forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century	3
Ludwig Binswanger’s Comments on Hermann Rorschach’s Psychodiagnostik	3
The development of supported mental health accommodation and community psychiatric nursing in Oxfordshire	3
Distinguishing between neurosis and psychosis: discourses on neurosis in colonial Korea	2
End of an era or a moment of reshuffling: fragmentation of entry-level training in China’s psycho-boom	2
Managing Chineseness: neurasthenia and psychiatry in Taiwan in the second half of the twentieth century	2
Moreau de Tours: organicism and subjectivity. Part 2: Moreau as psychopathologist	2

Psychiatric treatment of female mental patients in the Federated Malay States (FMS) of British-Malaya, 1930–57	2
Jean Garrabé de Lara (1931–2020)	2
Collecting to understand: the art of children and the medical-pedagogical approach in twentieth-century Portugal	2
When war came home: air-raid shock in World War I	2
On the origins of the concept of ‘latent schizophrenia’ in Russian psychiatry	2
Introduction: Madness and psychiatry in East Asian countries in the modern period	2
Freud, Griesinger and Foville: the influence of the nineteenth-century psychiatric tradition in the Freudian concept of delusion as an ‘attempt at recovery’	2
The work of Donald Ewen Cameron: from psychic driving to MK Ultra	2
Older people in hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Australia, 1849–1905	2
Rosenhan revisited: successful scientific fraud	2
Child development, film evidence, and epidemiological sciences: Elwyn James Anthony and the 1957 Zurich International Congress of Psychiatry	2
Classic Text No. 133: ‘Maxwell Jones and the Therapeutic Community’, by David Millard (1996)	2
Fear, disgust, hate: negative emotions evoked by animals in ancient literature	2
From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry	2
Public mental health care in colonial Lesotho: themes emerging from archival material, 1918–35	2
Naming psychiatry: apropos earliest use of the term by Karl Friedrich Burdach (1800)	1
Danilo Cargnello and his contribution to the development of phenomenological thought: an overview	1
Supply or demand? Institutionalization of the mentally ill in the emerging Swedish welfare state, 1900–59	1
From talking cure to play- and group-therapy: outpatient mental health care for children in the Netherlands c. 1945–70	1
The saga of James Lucett and the process for curing insanity, Part 1 (1811–14): The rise and fall of Delahoyde and Lucett	1
Psychiatric hospital, domestic strategies and gender issues in Tokyo, c. 1920–45	1
‘Pruning a genius’: marginalia by Richard Dadd	1
Psychiatric epidemiology and the Chicago School of Sociology	1
Book Review: Diana Peschier, Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum	1
Elton Mayo and Thomas Henry Reeve Mathewson: the forgotten Australian pioneers of the treatment of patients with shell shock, neurasthenia and nervous breakdown	1
Gustav Nikolaus Specht (1860–1940): psychiatric practice, research and teaching during a change of psychiatric paradigm before and after Kraepelin	1
The staff of madness: the visualization of insanity and the othering of the insane	1
Approaching Polish madness: concepts and treatment of psychosis in Polish psychiatry of the inter-war period	1
Moreau de Tours: organicism and subjectivity. Part 1: Life and work	1
Empathy: a case study in the historical epistemology of psychiatry	1
Book Review: Martin Summers, Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital	1
Foreign medical graduates and American psychiatry	1
Research on the history of psychiatry	1
The case of Dr Pownall – mad doctor, sane patient and insane murderer	1
Understanding understanding in psychiatry	1
The Stirling County Study: a case study of interdisciplinarity and its effects on the history of psychiatric epidemiology	1
Book Review: Kylie Smith, Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing	1
Wearing the wolf skin: psychiatry and the phenomenon of the berserker in medieval Scandinavia	1
Five autopsy reports of rib fractures in the mental hospital of Reggio Emilia (1874–5): pathogenesis proposal in defence of the ‘non-restraint’ system	1
Mental observation wards: an alternative provision for emergency psychiatric care in England in the first half of the twentieth century	1
Introduction to Special Issue: Geneses, organizations and transformations of psychiatric epidemiology	1
Classic Text No. 126: ‘Some main features in the history of the paranoid illness forms’, by Aa. Thune Jacobsen (1921)	1
Book Review: Deborah Blythe Doroshow, Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America’s Troubled Children	1
The paper technology of confinement: evolving criteria in admission forms (1850–73)	1
Deinstitutionalisation and the move to community care: comparing the changing dimensions of mental healthcare after 1922 in the Republic of Ireland and England	1
Book Review: Claire Hilton, Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War: A Study of Austerity on London’s Fringe	1
Relaying station for empires’ outcasts: managing ‘lunatics’ in pre-World War II Hong Kong	1
Shūzō Kure’s essay on psychotherapy including music in twentieth-century Japan (1916)	1
Do no harm in due process – a historical analysis of social determinates of institutionalization in the USA	1
Symonds on fear and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)	1

Classic Text No. 136 ‘On the question of unitary psychosis’, by Harry Marcuse (1926)	1
Hypnosis, psychoanalysis, and Morita therapy: the evolution of Kokyō Nakamura’s psychotherapeutic theories and practices	1
Yawning in the history of psychiatry	1