1: R. Porter and M.S. Micale: Introduction: Reflections on
Psychiatry and Its Histories
I. Early Developments
2: O. Marx: On the Origins of Psychiatric Historiography in
Nineteenth-Century Germany
3: G. Mora: Early American Historians of Psychiatry, 1910-1960
II. Five Major Voices
4: R. Porter: Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter: History Between
Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
5: E.T. Morman: George Rosen and the History of Mental Illness
6: M.S. Micale: Henri F. Ellenberger: The History of Psychiatry as
the History of the Unconscious
7: F. Vidal: Jean Starobinski: The History of Psychiatry as the
Cultural History of Consciousness
III. The Psychoanalytic Strain
8: E. Young-Bruehl: A History of Freud Biography
9: J. Forrester: "A Whole Climate of Opinion": Writing and
Rewriting the History of Psychoanalysis
10: K. Piver: Philip Rieff: The Critic of Psychoanalysis as
Cultural Theorist
IV. Historical Themes and Topics
11: P. Vandermeersch: Les Mythes D'Origines in the History of
Psychiatry
12: D. Weiner: "Le Geste de Pinel": The History of a Psychiatric
Myth
13: P. Guarnieri: The History and Historiography of Psychiatry in
Italy
14: G. Grob: The History of the Asylum Revisited: Personal
Reflections
15: G. Cocks: German Psychiatrists, Psychoanalysts, and
Psychotherapists During the Nazi Period: A Historiographical
Survey
16: J. Brown: Heroes and Non-Heroes: Recurring Themes in the
History of Soviet Russian Psychiatry
V. Critics of Psychiatry
17: R. Vatz and L. Weinberg: The Rhetorical Paradigm in Psychiatric
History: Thomas Szasz, Psychiatric History, and the Myth of Mental
Illness
18: G. Gutting: Michel Foucalt's Phanomologie des
Krankengeistes
19: N. Tomes: Feminist Histories of Psychiatry
20: J. Postel and D. Allen: History and Anti-Psychiatry in
France
21: N. Dain: Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry in the United States
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