History of Psychiatry

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Acknowledgements9
Deinstitutionalisation and the move to community care: comparing the changing dimensions of mental healthcare after 1922 in the Republic of Ireland and England9
The work of Donald Ewen Cameron: from psychic driving to MK Ultra9
‘I have to-day seen all the 671 patients in residence in this institution’: not listening to patients in the long 1920s7
De lunatico inquirendo: managing family inheritance across madness in eighteenth-century London5
Hypnosis, psychoanalysis, and Morita therapy: the evolution of Kokyō Nakamura’s psychotherapeutic theories and practices5
‘Regarding the scientific viewpoint in psychiatry’, lecture by Carl Wernicke (1880)5
The Stirling County Study: a case study of interdisciplinarity and its effects on the history of psychiatric epidemiology4
Acknowledgements4
Book Review: Åsa Jansson, From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry4
Classic Text No. 134: ‘A case of Wernicke-Bostroem’s expansive autopsychosis’, by Ib Ostenfeld (1944)4
From the Midtown Manhattan Study to the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study: the advent of mechanical objectivity in psychiatry4
Revisiting Eugène Minkowski’s concept of schizophrenic melancholia3
Book Review: Matthew Smith, The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States3
Classic Text No. 133: ‘Maxwell Jones and the Therapeutic Community’, by David Millard (1996)3
Book Review: Steeves Demazeux, L’éclipse du Symptôme. L’observation Clinique en Psychiatrie: 1800–19503
Book Review: Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us3
Psychiatric epidemiology and the Chicago School of Sociology3
Charles Lloyd Tuckey: medical hypnotist and ‘amiable necromancer’3
A history of mental illness among women in the Straits Settlements in the nineteenth century2
Biocultural psychopathology as a new epistemology for mental disorders2
Book Reviews: Andrew Scull, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness2
Pourquoi pas Solanes? ’ Retracing genealogies of critical psychiatry through the emergence of mass exile and displacement as mental pathologies2
Maoism and mental illness: psychiatric institutionalization during the Chinese Cultural Revolution2
The notion of excessive childhood restlessness in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century2
Emil Kraepelin as a historian of psychiatry – one hundred years on2
James Cowles Prichard, an early Victorian psychiatrist2
Book review: Psychiatric Contours: New African History of Madness HuntNancy RoseBüschelHerbertus, Psychiatric Contours: New African History of Madness, Duke University Press: Durham, NC, 2024.2
Professional dynamics of the forensic evaluation of mental states in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway2
‘A proposal for research in the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders’, by Alexander H Leighton2
How did Leo Kanner distinguish early infantile autism from childhood schizophrenia?2
Psychiatry during National Socialism: Contacts with relatives of the victims of NS-Euthanasia as part of a consequent Memorial Culture2
Book Review: Parra Alejandro, Entre médicos y médiums: Saberes, tensiones y límites en el espiritismo argentino (1880–1959) ParraAlejandro (2024). Entre 2
Bridging the gap by microscoping the mind: Mental anthropometry, experimental psychopathology, and the scientific ideal of psychiatry at the Eastern Illinois Hospital for the Insane, 1870s–1910s2
Psychiatric treatment of female mental patients in the Federated Malay States (FMS) of British-Malaya, 1930–571
What is Psychiatry? Was ist das, die Psychiatrie?1
Institutionalization of the insane in the Russian Baltic provinces: a case study of the Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases in Tartu, 1881–951
Book Review: Alexander Batthyány, Viktor Frankl and the Shoah: Advancing the Debate1
Jean-Martin Charcot and Scandinavian literature: On the 200th anniversary of his birth1
Empathy: a case study in the historical epistemology of psychiatry1
Maurycy Urstein: A doctor and a celebrity1
The saga of James Lucett and the process for curing insanity, Part 1 (1811–14): The rise and fall of Delahoyde and Lucett1
‘Acquired idiotism’, by Frederik Lange (1883)1
Book Reviews: Shilpi Rajpal, Curing Madness? A Social and Cultural History of Insanity in Colonial North India, 1800–1950s1
The Basaglia Law. Returning dignity to psychiatric patients: the historical, political and social factors that led to the closure of psychiatric hospitals in Italy in 19781
Innovation and inequity in psychedelic research at the Mayo Clinic1
George Stephen Penny (1885–1964): his life and medical encounters before, during and after admission to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum1
Supply or demand? Institutionalization of the mentally ill in the emerging Swedish welfare state, 1900–591
Book Review: Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea1
A mad yearning for solitude: Timon the Misanthrope and his relevance to the study of ancient psychopathology1
Shūzō Kure’s essay on psychotherapy including music in twentieth-century Japan (1916)1
Introduction: Madness and psychiatry in East Asian countries in the modern period1
Soul, body and mental health – applying Rabbi Moshe de Maimon’s philosophy to the contemporary phenomenon of drug addiction1
Marcel Réja and theatre therapy1
‘Eccentricity’, by DH Tuke (1892)1
Malaria therapy for neurosyphilis at Mont Park Hospital for the insane in Australia, 1927–19281
Whose experts? How federalism shaped psychiatry in the late Habsburg monarchy1
The case of Dr Pownall – mad doctor, sane patient and insane murderer1
Book Review: Ronald Chase, Great Discoveries in Psychiatry1
Fear, disgust, hate: negative emotions evoked by animals in ancient literature1
The processes and context of innovation in mental healthcare: Oxfordshire as a case study1
Danilo Cargnello and his contribution to the development of phenomenological thought: an overview1
Social issues relating to Vladimir Bekhterev’s concept of reflexology: a hitherto underestimated aspect of his work1
Psychiatric authority and social problems: A history of fears and expectations in 20th- and 21st-century America1
Malaria therapy for general paralysis of the insane at the Sunbury Hospital for the Insane in Australia, 1925–61
Book Review: Madeline Kearin Ryan, A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane1
The short tenure and long legacy of interior secretary Stanley K. Hathaway1
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