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Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Acknowledgements	12
Deinstitutionalisation and the move to community care: comparing the changing dimensions of mental healthcare after 1922 in the Republic of Ireland and England	7
The work of Donald Ewen Cameron: from psychic driving to MK Ultra	6
‘I have to-day seen all the 671 patients in residence in this institution’: not listening to patients in the long 1920s	5
Freud, Griesinger and Foville: the influence of the nineteenth-century psychiatric tradition in the Freudian concept of delusion as an ‘attempt at recovery’	4
Book Review: Simon Jarrett, Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day	4
Hypnosis, psychoanalysis, and Morita therapy: the evolution of Kokyō Nakamura’s psychotherapeutic theories and practices	4
Yawning in the history of psychiatry	4
‘Regarding the scientific viewpoint in psychiatry’, lecture by Carl Wernicke (1880)	4
De lunatico inquirendo: managing family inheritance across madness in eighteenth-century London	4
Classic Text No. 134: ‘A case of Wernicke-Bostroem’s expansive autopsychosis’, by Ib Ostenfeld (1944)	3
Book Review: Åsa Jansson, From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry	3
Classic Text No. 133: ‘Maxwell Jones and the Therapeutic Community’, by David Millard (1996)	3
The Stirling County Study: a case study of interdisciplinarity and its effects on the history of psychiatric epidemiology	3
Acknowledgements	3
Book Review: Matthew Smith, The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States	3
Mental observation wards: an alternative provision for emergency psychiatric care in England in the first half of the twentieth century	3
Psychiatric epidemiology and the Chicago School of Sociology	3
From the Midtown Manhattan Study to the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study: the advent of mechanical objectivity in psychiatry	3
Book Review: Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us	3
Book Review: Steeves Demazeux, L’éclipse du Symptôme. L’observation Clinique en Psychiatrie: 1800–1950	2
The notion of excessive childhood restlessness in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century	2
‘A proposal for research in the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders’, by Alexander H Leighton	2
Emil Kraepelin as a historian of psychiatry – one hundred years on	2
Charles Lloyd Tuckey: medical hypnotist and ‘amiable necromancer’	2

Book Reviews: Andrew Scull, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness	2
Psychiatry during National Socialism: Contacts with relatives of the victims of NS-Euthanasia as part of a consequent Memorial Culture	2
A history of mental illness among women in the Straits Settlements in the nineteenth century	2
Biocultural psychopathology as a new epistemology for mental disorders	2
Professional dynamics of the forensic evaluation of mental states in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway	2
The case of Dr Pownall – mad doctor, sane patient and insane murderer	1
Book Review: Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum	1
Research on the history of psychiatry	1
Acknowledgements	1
Book Review: Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea	1
Book Review: Madeline Kearin Ryan, A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane	1
Fear, disgust, hate: negative emotions evoked by animals in ancient literature	1
A mad yearning for solitude: Timon the Misanthrope and his relevance to the study of ancient psychopathology	1
An overview on Hebephrenia, a diagnostic cornerstone in the neurodevelopmental model of Schizophrenia	1
Supply or demand? Institutionalization of the mentally ill in the emerging Swedish welfare state, 1900–59	1
‘Acquired idiotism’, by Frederik Lange (1883)	1
From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry	1
Whose experts? How federalism shaped psychiatry in the late Habsburg monarchy	1
Marcel Réja and theatre therapy	1
George Stephen Penny (1885–1964): his life and medical encounters before, during and after admission to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum	1
Book Review: ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East	1
What is Psychiatry? Was ist das, die Psychiatrie?	1
Introduction: Madness and psychiatry in East Asian countries in the modern period	1
Shūzō Kure’s essay on psychotherapy including music in twentieth-century Japan (1916)	1
Book Review: Alexander Batthyány, Viktor Frankl and the Shoah: Advancing the Debate	1
The processes and context of innovation in mental healthcare: Oxfordshire as a case study	1
Danilo Cargnello and his contribution to the development of phenomenological thought: an overview	1
Social issues relating to Vladimir Bekhterev’s concept of reflexology: a hitherto underestimated aspect of his work	1
Empathy: a case study in the historical epistemology of psychiatry	1
Soul, body and mental health – applying Rabbi Moshe de Maimon’s philosophy to the contemporary phenomenon of drug addiction	1
Innovation and inequity in psychedelic research at the Mayo Clinic	1
Book Review: Ronald Chase, Great Discoveries in Psychiatry	1
‘Eccentricity’, by DH Tuke (1892)	1
Psychiatric treatment of female mental patients in the Federated Malay States (FMS) of British-Malaya, 1930–57	1
Book Reviews: Shilpi Rajpal, Curing Madness? A Social and Cultural History of Insanity in Colonial North India, 1800–1950s	1
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 1978	1
Ludwig Binswanger’s Comments on Hermann Rorschach’s Psychodiagnostik	1
Maoism and mental illness: psychiatric institutionalization during the Chinese Cultural Revolution	1
Institutionalization of the insane in the Russian Baltic provinces: a case study of the Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases in Tartu, 1881–95	1
‘ Pourquoi pas Solanes? ’ Retracing genealogies of critical psychiatry through the emergence of mass exile and displacement as mental pathologies	1
Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788–1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents	1
Jean-Martin Charcot and Scandinavian literature: On the 200th anniversary of his birth	1
Empathy or sympathy: a necessary distinction?	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
Malaria therapy for general paralysis of the insane at the Sunbury Hospital for the Insane in Australia, 1925–6	1