Review of the Exhibition: Normal#Verrückt – Zeitgeschichte einer erodierenden Differenz
Michaela Clark reviews an exhibition that explores and complicates the social and psychiatric norms of post-war Germany.
Psychiatry and Politics, 1960s style: David Cooper at the Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation
Martin Levy reflects on the Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation held in London in 1967 and the involvement of anti-psychiatrist David Cooper.
Comics as Research: Patients’ Reading in Psychiatric Institutions Around 1900
Anna Böhler’s research focused on the topic of reading practices in historical psychiatric contexts. She presents some of her findings in comic book format.
Considering Uncertainty in the History of Psychiatry
Pressing historians to attach weight to expressions of professional uncertainty and critique in twentieth-century psychiatry, Sarah Phelan makes a case for studying overlooked historical figures within psychiatric history.
God Help Us? Religion in Nineteenth-Century British Asylums
Historian Ute Oswald explores the role of religion in nineteenth-century asylums and questions the therapeutic benefits of engaging in similar practices today. Can religion make us feel better? Are religious people less likely to
Imagination in the Archives of Mental Health Law
Reflecting upon the assumptions we make when dealing with legal documents, historian Janet Weston questions the ever-important role of the imagination for those working in archives of mental health law. Imagination always plays a
Object Relations Podcast: Frantz Fanon and Black Consciousness
Samuel Kelly shares episode four of the four-part Object Relations podcast, on the philosopher, psychiatrist and revolutionary Frantz Fanon.
Object Relations Podcast: Psychoanalytic Politics and the Myth of Neutrality
Samuel Kelly shares episode three of the four-part Object Relations podcast, on the politics of the psychoanalytic encounter
Object Relations Podcast: The Radical Psychiatry of Franco Basaglia
Samuel Kelly shares episode two of the four-part Object Relations podcast, on the radical psychiatry of Franco Basaglia.
Guilty Obsessions
Eva Surawy Stepney discusses how OCD has been understood in relation to fear, anxiety and guilt