Show threadCarsten TimmermannApr 22
#histpsych www.theguardian.com/books/2012/s...

Kingsley Hall: RD Laing's expe...
Kingsley Hall: RD Laing's experiment in anti-psychiatry

Five decades after the psychiatrist opened his radical residential centre, Kingsley Hall, former residents tell their stories. By Sean O'Hagan

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Carsten TimmermannApr 13
Interesting #HistPsych article. Representations of mental illness in movies and on TV is a popular topic for student essays. Tim Snelson, ‘Reel Worlds: Reconstructing the History of Postwar Child Psychotherapy through Fiction Film’, History of Psychiatry, 31 March 2026, doi.org/10.1177/0957....
Carsten TimmermannApr 6
Interesting - following the retirement of German Berrios, the journal History of Psychiatry has been relaunched with a new title: History of Psychiatry: Madness, Culture, Science. The new editor is Eric Engstrom. #HistPsych journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Carsten TimmermannApr 2
Going to see this play on the history of hysteria tonight with students. Very much looking forward to it. #HistPsych homemcr.org/whats-on/the...

The City for Incurable Women —...
The City for Incurable Women — The critically-acclaimed show from fish in a dress

​​Ladies and Gentlethem – feeling a little upset? Have you tried hypnosis, psychoanalysis, smelling salts and it just doesn't work? Try The City for Incurable Women! Paris, 1880s. In a psychiatric hos…

David FreisNov 7, 2025
Heute um 11:30 spreche ich im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe "Kindheit, Gewalt und Krieg" über die Anfänge einer Psychologie kindlicher Kriegstraumata in der Ukraine 1918-21 und den Arzt Fischl Schneersohn. #histmed #histpsych Programm und Zugangslink: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
Carsten TimmermannMay 20, 2025
Interesting #HistPsych post: the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry is looking to hire an archivist for their historical archive.
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Carsten TimmermannMar 20, 2025
I've long been thinking that we need some good #HistPsych literature on the 1930 Mental Treatment Act and its impact. I just stumbled across this useful but brief blog post by the excellent Claire Hilton. If you want to recommend other readings, I'd be grateful. www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...

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Carsten TimmermannMar 12, 2025
A #HistPsych query addressed to historians of women's rights and the suffragette movement: for an undergraduate student project, can anyone point me to primary sources where protests by suffragettes are dismissed as expressions of mental illness? And is there secondary literature on this?
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Carsten TimmermannJan 30, 2025
This will be good! #histpsych #scicomm

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Jesse F BallengerJan 10, 2024
#Histodons, what are the best articles or book chapters on the history of mental illnesses suitable for an advanced undergraduate class? #HistMed #HistPsych