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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Historical and conceptual features of acute polymorphic psychosis: a myth of European psychiatry from bouffée délirante to ICD-11 acute and transient psychotic disorder	9
Foreign medical graduates and American psychiatry	6
The saga of James Lucett and the process for curing insanity, Part 1 (1811–14): The rise and fall of Delahoyde and Lucett	5
George Stephen Penny (1885–1964): his life and medical encounters before, during and after admission to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum	4
Public mental health care in colonial Lesotho: themes emerging from archival material, 1918–35	4
Older people in hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Australia, 1849–1905	4
Acknowledgements	4
The development of supported mental health accommodation and community psychiatric nursing in Oxfordshire	4
Book Reviews: Andrew Scull, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness	4
The case of Dr Pownall – mad doctor, sane patient and insane murderer	3
Relaying station for empires’ outcasts: managing ‘lunatics’ in pre-World War II Hong Kong	3
The work of Donald Ewen Cameron: from psychic driving to MK Ultra	3
Deinstitutionalisation and the move to community care: comparing the changing dimensions of mental healthcare after 1922 in the Republic of Ireland and England	3
Marcel Réja and theatre therapy	3
Psychiatric treatment of female mental patients in the Federated Malay States (FMS) of British-Malaya, 1930–57	3
Personality and mental disorders: sensitive character, melancholic type, and addenda	3
George Wallett, 1775–1845: entrepreneur and asylum doctor	3
Professional dynamics of the forensic evaluation of mental states in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway	3
Book Reviews: Alice Wexler, The Analyst: A Daughter’s Memoir	3
Danilo Cargnello and his contribution to the development of phenomenological thought: an overview	2
Maoism and mental illness: psychiatric institutionalization during the Chinese Cultural Revolution	2
‘I have to-day seen all the 671 patients in residence in this institution’: not listening to patients in the long 1920s	2
An overview on Hebephrenia, a diagnostic cornerstone in the neurodevelopmental model of Schizophrenia	2
Empathy or sympathy: a necessary distinction?	2
The Goldwater Rule: a bastion of a bygone era?	2

Soul, body and mental health – applying Rabbi Moshe de Maimon’s philosophy to the contemporary phenomenon of drug addiction	2
Empathy: a case study in the historical epistemology of psychiatry	2
Whose experts? How federalism shaped psychiatry in the late Habsburg monarchy	2
‘A proposal for research in the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders’, by Alexander H Leighton	2
From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry	2
Innovation in mental health care: Bertram Mandelbrote, the Phoenix Unit and the therapeutic community approach	2
‘Acquired idiotism’, by Frederik Lange (1883)	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
Classic Text No. 128: Thomas Brown’s comments on Erasmus Darwin’s view on madness	2
Supply or demand? Institutionalization of the mentally ill in the emerging Swedish welfare state, 1900–59	2
Erratum to: Gustav Nikolaus Specht (1860–1940): psychiatric practice, research and teaching during a change of psychiatric paradigm before and after Kraepelin	1
Introduction to Special Issue: Geneses, organizations and transformations of psychiatric epidemiology	1
Ludwig Binswanger’s Comments on Hermann Rorschach’s Psychodiagnostik	1
A mad yearning for solitude: Timon the Misanthrope and his relevance to the study of ancient psychopathology	1
Classic Text No. 134: ‘A case of Wernicke-Bostroem’s expansive autopsychosis’, by Ib Ostenfeld (1944)	1
Revisiting Emil Kraepelin’s eugenic arguments	1
Moreau de Tours: organicism and subjectivity. Part 2: Moreau as psychopathologist	1
Landmarks in the history of neurosyphilis: the neglected observations of Vincenzo Chiarugi	1
The staff of madness: the visualization of insanity and the othering of the insane	1
ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East	1
De lunatico inquirendo: managing family inheritance across madness in eighteenth-century London	1
Infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on Dutch forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century	1
‘Regarding the scientific viewpoint in psychiatry’, lecture by Carl Wernicke (1880)	1
‘A landmark in psychiatric progress’? The role of evidence in the rise and fall of insulin coma therapy	1
Corrigendum	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
Book Review: Simon Jarrett, Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day	1
Mind and soul? Two notions in the light of contemporary philosophy	1
British mental healthcare responses to adult homosexuality and gender non-conforming children at the turn of the twenty-first century	1
The saga of James Lucett and the process for curing insanity, Part 2 (1814–38): ‘Insanity cured’	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
Naming psychiatry: apropos earliest use of the term by Karl Friedrich Burdach (1800)	1
‘A proposal for research in the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders’, by Alexander H Leighton (1950)	1
Cheerfulness in the history of psychiatry	1
The processes and context of innovation in mental healthcare: Oxfordshire as a case study	1
Neither saintly nor psychotic: a narrative systematic review of the evolving Western perception of voice hearing	1
Yawning in the history of psychiatry	1
Approaching Polish madness: concepts and treatment of psychosis in Polish psychiatry of the inter-war period	1
‘Picture imperfect’: the motives and uses of patient photography in the asylum	1
Fear, disgust, hate: negative emotions evoked by animals in ancient literature	1
Phrenitis and the pathology of the mind in western medical thought (fifth century BCE to twentieth century cE)	1
Mental observation wards: an alternative provision for emergency psychiatric care in England in the first half of the twentieth century	1
Attempted suicide in older people in New South Wales, Australia, 1870–1908	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
Social issues relating to Vladimir Bekhterev’s concept of reflexology: a hitherto underestimated aspect of his work	1