Doing psychiatry engages with the history of European psychiatry in the second half of the twentieth century through a close and fresh look at the practices tha

Anti-psychiatry' is a movement more sloganized than analysed. Until now it has been associated in the English-speaking world primarily with R.D. Laing and a cot

Making Mental Health: A Critical History historicises mental health by examining the concept from the ‘madness’ of the late nineteenth century to the changi

How researchers understood the atomic bomb’s effects on the human psyche before the recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In 1945, researchers on a m

This book examines the relationship between social class and mental illness in Northern Europe during the 20th century. Contributors explore the socioeconomic s