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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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
How did mental health become so biomedical? The progressive erosion of social determinants in historical psychiatric admission registers	12
‘The schizophrenic basic mood (self-disorder)’, by Hans W Gruhle (1929)	10
The history of mental health policy in Turkey: tradition, transition and transformation	8
Karl Leonhard (1904–88) and his academic influence through the ‘Erlangen School’	5
The Goldwater Rule: a bastion of a bygone era?	5
‘I think’ (the thoughts of others). The German tradition of apperceptionism and the intellectual history of schizophrenia	5
‘The voice of the stomach’: the mind, hypochondriasis and theories of dyspepsia in the nineteenth century	4
Hallucinations and Illusions by Edmund Parish: the unlikely genesis and curious fate of a forgotten masterpiece	4
Infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on Dutch forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century	3
From Libidines nefandæ to sexual perversions	3
The electroshock triangle: disputes about the ECT apparatus prototype and its display in the 1960s	3
Shock therapies in Spain (1939–1952) after the Civil War: Santa Isabel National Mental Asylum in Leganés	3
Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788–1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents	3
‘A landmark in psychiatric progress’? The role of evidence in the rise and fall of insulin coma therapy	3
Innovation in mental health care: Bertram Mandelbrote, the Phoenix Unit and the therapeutic community approach	3
Happenstance and regulatory culture: the evolution of innovative community mental health services in Oxfordshire in the late twentieth century	3
The development of a creative work rehabilitation organisation	3
Ludwig Binswanger’s Comments on Hermann Rorschach’s Psychodiagnostik	3
Sexual abuse by superintending staff in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum: medical practice, complaint and risk	3
The processes and context of innovation in mental healthcare: Oxfordshire as a case study	2
Malaria therapy in Spain: 100 years after its introduction as a treatment for the general paralysis of the insane	2
Public mental health care in colonial Lesotho: themes emerging from archival material, 1918–35	2
History of the opposition between psychogenesis and organogenesis in classic psychiatry: Part 2	2
When war came home: air-raid shock in World War I	2
The mentally ill and how they were perceived in young Israel	2

Moreau de Tours: organicism and subjectivity. Part 2: Moreau as psychopathologist	2
Maoism and mental illness: psychiatric institutionalization during the Chinese Cultural Revolution	2
An overview on Hebephrenia, a diagnostic cornerstone in the neurodevelopmental model of Schizophrenia	2
Older people in hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Australia, 1849–1905	2
Distinguishing between neurosis and psychosis: discourses on neurosis in colonial Korea	2
‘Psychosis of civilization’: a colonial-situated diagnosis	2
Fear, disgust, hate: negative emotions evoked by animals in ancient literature	2
‘Regarding the scientific viewpoint in psychiatry’, lecture by Carl Wernicke (1880)	2
From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry	2
Eamon O’Sullivan: 20th-century Irish psychiatrist and occupational therapy patron	2
Jean Garrabé de Lara (1931–2020)	2
Power in psychiatry. Soviet peer and lay hierarchies in the context of political abuse of psychiatry	2
Classic Text No. 133: ‘Maxwell Jones and the Therapeutic Community’, by David Millard (1996)	2
American Civil War medical practice, the post-bellum opium crisis and modern comparisons	2
Symonds on fear and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)	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
The paper technology of confinement: evolving criteria in admission forms (1850–73)	1
Supply or demand? Institutionalization of the mentally ill in the emerging Swedish welfare state, 1900–59	1
Freud, Griesinger and Foville: the influence of the nineteenth-century psychiatric tradition in the Freudian concept of delusion as an ‘attempt at recovery’	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
Book Review: Martin Summers, Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital	1
Foucault’sFolie et déraison: its influence and its contemporary relevance	1
Naum Efimovich Ischlondsky: a forgotten protagonist of the concept of reflexology	1
‘Pruning a genius’: marginalia by Richard Dadd	1
Do no harm in due process – a historical analysis of social determinates of institutionalization in the USA	1
Wearing the wolf skin: psychiatry and the phenomenon of the berserker in medieval Scandinavia	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
Book Review: Kylie Smith, Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing	1
The staff of madness: the visualization of insanity and the othering of the insane	1
Yawning in the history of psychiatry	1
Book Review: Deborah Blythe Doroshow, Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America’s Troubled Children	1
From talking cure to play- and group-therapy: outpatient mental health care for children in the Netherlandsc. 1945–70	1
Moreau de Tours: organicism and subjectivity. Part 1: Life and work	1
Research on the history of psychiatry	1
Alteration of consciousness in Ancient Greece: divinemania	1
The Stirling County Study: a case study of interdisciplinarity and its effects on the history of psychiatric epidemiology	1
Freud and Albert Moll: how kindred spirits became bitter foes	1
‘My insanity in the year 1783’, by C.S. Andresen (1801)	1
On the origins of the concept of ‘latent schizophrenia’ in Russian psychiatry	1
Gustav Nikolaus Specht (1860–1940): psychiatric practice, research and teaching during a change of psychiatric paradigm before and after Kraepelin	1
Classic Text No. 136 ‘On the question of unitary psychosis’, by Harry Marcuse (1926)	1
Managing Chineseness: neurasthenia and psychiatry in Taiwan in the second half of the twentieth century	1
Introduction: Madness and psychiatry in East Asian countries in the modern period	1
Hypnosis, psychoanalysis, and Morita therapy: the evolution of Kokyō Nakamura’s psychotherapeutic theories and practices	1
Collecting to understand: the art of children and the medical-pedagogical approach in twentieth-century Portugal	1
Danilo Cargnello and his contribution to the development of phenomenological thought: an overview	1
Classic Text No. 126: ‘Some main features in the history of the paranoid illness forms’, by Aa. Thune Jacobsen (1921)	1

Emil Kraepelin as a historian of psychiatry – one hundred years on	1
Psychiatric treatment of female mental patients in the Federated Malay States (FMS) of British-Malaya, 1930–57	1
Psychiatric hospital, domestic strategies and gender issues in Tokyo,c. 1920–45	1
Foreign medical graduates and American psychiatry	1
Psychiatric epidemiology and the Chicago School of Sociology	1
The case of Dr Pownall – mad doctor, sane patient and insane murderer	1
End of an era or a moment of reshuffling: fragmentation of entry-level training in China’s psycho-boom	1
Shūzō Kure’s essay on psychotherapy including music in twentieth-century Japan (1916)	1
British mental healthcare responses to adult homosexuality and gender non-conforming children at the turn of the twenty-first century	1
Book Review: Claire E Edington, Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in Colonial Vietnam	1