Tag Archives: history of psychiatry

The Mental Health Recovery Archive, The Wellcome Trust – review of its ‘soft launch’ (9 December 2013)

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Roz Oates, a doctoral student in Durham’s Centre for Medical Humanities and Department of Geography, who is also part of the Hearing the Voice research team, writes: The Mental Health Recovery Archive at the Wellcome Trust On Monday 9 December, … Continue reading →

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Alternative Psychiatric Narratives (CfP, Postgraduate & ECR Conference, Birkbeck, 16-17 May 2014)

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Alternative Psychiatric Narratives Friday 16 and Saturday 17 May 2014 Birkbeck College, University of London Chair: Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck In recent years, historians of psychiatry have heeded Roy Porter’s call to produce psychiatric histories from the patient’s point of … Continue reading →

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Historical Perspectives on ‘Antisocial Personality Disorder’ (CfP, Conference, 12 May 2014, Queen Mary)

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Historical Perspectives on ‘Antisocial Personality Disorder’ Monday 12th May 2014 Queen Mary, University of London. We are interested in work that takes historical perspectives on the various diagnostic categories typified by those of ‘moral insanity’, ‘psychopathy’, and ‘personality disorder’. We … Continue reading →

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From Moral Treatment to Psychological Therapies: Psychotherapeutics from the York Retreat to the Present Day (Conference, London, 11–13 October 2013)

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

FROM MORAL TREATMENT TO PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES: PSYCHOTHERAPEUTICS FROM THE YORK RETREAT TO THE PRESENT DAY University College London, 11th-13th October 2013 The conference programme is now online (though note that timings are subject to change). To register, please click here.  

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Art in the Asylum: Creativity & the Evolution of Psychiatry (Exhibition, Nottingham, 7 September – 3 November 2013)

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Art in the Asylum Exhibition & new installation “Marat Sade Bohnice” by Althea Thauberger Art in the Asylum: creativity and the evolution of psychiatry presents the first look at the evolution of artistic activity in British asylums from the early … Continue reading →

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“The Trade in Lunacy”: A Theatrical Examination of 18th Century Private Asylums (Coventry, 27-29 June 2013)

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

The Warwick Centre for the History of Medicine is delighted to announce a new public engagement collaboration with Talking Birds linked to Professor Hilary Marland’s research entitled: ‘Trade in Lunacy’, supported by the Wellcome Trust’s Centre Strategic Award; Situating Medicine: New Directions … Continue reading →

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Diagnosis and disputation: “archiving” DSM–5

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Felicity Callard

Diagnosis and disputation: “archiving” DSM–5 I have spent the last few months gorging on DSM–5 media discussions. (All too often I have felt as though I have been ingesting too many empty, sugar-spiked calories.) I had promised myself, then, that I … Continue reading →

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The Rise of Developmental Science: Debates on Health & Humanity (CFP, Social Science & Medicine Special Issue)

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Special Issue: Social Science & Medicine Guest Editors Dominique P Béhague, Vanderbilt University & King’s College London Samuel Lézé, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Social Science & Medicine is soliciting papers for a Special Interdisciplinary Issue on the unique challenges … Continue reading →

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The DSM5 Debates: Searching for the voices of those living under, through, and beyond psychiatric diagnoses

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Felicity Callard

Next week, on June 4–5, 2013, I will be speaking at the DSM-5 extravaganza taking place at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. There is a 2-day international conference titled: DSM-5 and the Future of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Where is … Continue reading →

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From Moral Treatment to Psychological Therapies: Histories of Psychotherapeutics (CFP, Conference, London, 11–13 October 2013)

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

CFP: From Moral Treatment to Psychological Therapies: Histories of Psychotherapeutics from the York Retreat to the Present Day. Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, UCL 11-13th October 2013 Whilst the history of psychiatry has become a well developed field … Continue reading →

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