Revisiting psychiatry in twentieth-century Europe1

 1. This review article was written in the course of a four-month fellowship at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in Oxford, financed through a Wiener-Anspach grant. I am grateful to Lut Van Daele, Kenneth Bertrams and Sloan Mahone for their comments on previous drafts.

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 1. This review article was written in the course of a four-month fellowship at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in Oxford, financed through a Wiener-Anspach grant. I am grateful to Lut Van Daele, Kenneth Bertrams and Sloan Mahone for their comments on previous drafts.

 2. Porter and Micale, “Introduction”, in Discovering the History of Psychiatry. New York/Oxford, pp. 3–36.

 3. Probably the most illustrative example of this critical historiography is Scull, Museums of Madness.

 4. Blok, Baas in eigen brein.

 5. Crossley, Contesting Psychiatry.

 6. Hanrath, Zwischen ‘Euthanasie’ und Psychiatriereform.

 7. Jackson, Surfacing Up.

 8. Missa, Naissance de la psychiatrie biologique.

 9. Laing, The Divided Self.

10. Werner and Zimmermann, De la comparaison à l'histoire croisée.

11. Shorter, A History of Psychiatry, pp. 273–83.

12. Giordana, La Meglio Gioventu, 2003 (358 min.).

13. For example: Ernst, Mad Tales from the Raj.

14. For example: Pols, “The Nature of the Native Mind”.

15. Exception: Keller, Colonial Madness.

16. Vaughan, Curing their Ills.

17. Foucault, Les Anormaux or Foucault, Le pouvoir psychiatrique.

18. Erving, Asylums, p. 203; Lüdtke, Alf. “Eigensinn”, in Alltagskultur, Subjektivität und Geschichte. Zur Theorie und Praxis von Alltagsgeschichte, pp. 139–53.

19. Zeithistorische Forschungen , 3, 2004 (a special number consecrated to “Europäisierung der Zeitgeschichte”) and “Transnationale Geschichte – eine Zwischenbilanz”. http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/forum/.

20. Castel et al., La société psychiatrique avancée.