Introduction
Part I The Pneumatic Age
A. The Ancient World
The Bible, 1 Samuel (ca. 960 B.C.E.)
Euripides (484-407/6 B.C.E.), The Bacchae (ca. 404 B.C.E.)
Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.E.), Writings on Hysteria (ca. fourth
century B.C.E.)
The Bible, Mark 5 (ca. 65-75 C.E.)
Soranus (ca. second century C.E.), "Madness or Insanity (Greek
Mania)"
B. Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Sarabiyun Ibn Ibrahim, "Three Cases of Melancholia by Rufus of
Ephesus" (ca. 873)
Ibn Sina [Avicenna] (ca. 980-1037), "Lovesickness" (First Latin
translation, twelfth century)
Julian of Norwich (1342-ca. 1416), Revelations of Divine Love (ca.
1390s)
John Brydall (ca. 1635-ca. after 1705), The Law Relating to Natural
Fools, Mad-Folks,and Lunatick Persons (1700)
Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738), "Aphorisms" (1765)
William Cullen (1710-1790), Lectures on the Materia Medica
(1773)
C. Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Reform
Part II The Age of Optimism
Philippe Pinel (1745-1826), A Treatise on Insanity (1801)
Johann Christian August Heinroth (1773-1843), Textbook on
Disturbances of Mental Life (1818)
Jean Etienne Esquirol (1772-1840), "Monomania" (1838)
Dorothea Dix (1802-1887), Memorial to the Legislature of
Massachusetts (1843)
The M'Naughten Rules (1843)
B. The Asylum
The Opal: A Monthly Periodical of the State Lunatic Asylum, Devoted
to Usefulness, Edited by the Patients of the Utica State Lunatic
Asylum (1850-1860)
Limerick District Lunatic Asylum, Report of the Limerick District
Lunatic Asylum for the Year Ending December 31st, 1866 (1867)
Great Britain, Office of Superintendent Government, Annual Report
of the Insane Asylums in Bengal for the Year 1867 (1868)
Elizabeth P. W. Packard (1816-1897), The Prisoner's Hidden Life, or
Insane Asylums Unveiled (1868)
C. Brain Science, Nerves, and Clinical Psychiatry
Nelson Sizer (1812-1897), Forty Years in Phrenology; Embracing
Recollections of History, Anecdote, and Experience (1891)
George Miller Beard (1839-1883), Cases of Hysteria, Neurasthenia,
Spinal Irritation, or Allied Affections (1874)
Auguste Tamburini (1848-1919), "A Theory of Hallucinations"
(1881)
Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902), Psychopathia Sexualis
(1892)
Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), "A Tuesday Lesson:
Hysteroepilepsy" (1888)
Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926), "About the Surveillance Ward at the
Heidelberg Clinic for Lunatics" (1895)
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), "The Origin and Development of
Psychoanalysis" (1910)
Vincent, "Confessions of an Agoraphobic Victim (1919)
Part III The Militant Age
A. War and Neurosis
Fritz Kaufmann (1875-1941), "The Systematic Cure of Complicated
Psychogenic Motor Disorders Among Soldiers in One Session"
(1916)
W. H. R. Rivers (1864-1922), War Neurosis and Military Training
(1918)
B. The New Focus on the Body
Anonymous, "Autopsychology of the Manic-Depressive" (1910)
Herman Lundborg (1868-1943), "The Danger of Degeneracy" (1922)
The Decision in Buck v. Bell (1927)
Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857-1940), "The Treatment of Dementia
Paralytica by Malaria Inoculation" (1927)
Hermann Simon (1867-1947), Active Therapy in the Lunatic Facility
(1929)
Anonymous, "Insulin and I" (1940)
Walter Freeman (1895-1972) and James W. Watts (1904-1994),
"Psychosurgery During 1936-1946" (1947)
C. Psychiatric Eugenics in Germany
Fritz Lenz (1887-1976), Human Selection and Race Hygiene (1921)
Germany, "The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Ill Offspring"
(14 July 1933)
Documents on the "T-4" and "14f13" Programs (1939-1945)
D. Mental Illness, Psychiatry, and Communism
Thea H. (b. 1923), An Experience of Psychosis in Post-World War II
Germany (1949)
Records in the Case of Pyotr Grigorenko (1969-1970)
World Psychiatric Association, "Declaration of Hawaii" (1977)
E. Anti-Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry, and
Deinstitutionalization
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), "The North African Syndrome" (1952)
Thomas Szasz (b. 1920), "The Myth of Mental Illness" (1960)
Franco Basaglia (1924-1980), "The Problem of the Incident"
(1968)
Great Britain Department of Health and Social Security, Better
Services for the Mentally Ill (1975)
Part IV The Psychoboom
Alcoholics Anonymous (founded 1935), "The Twelve Steps" and "The
Twelve Traditions"
Carl Rogers (1902-1987), "The Attitude and Orientation of the
Counselor in Client Centered Therapy" (1949)
Aaron T. Beck (b. 1921), "Cognitive Therapy: Nature and Relation to
Behavior Therapy" (1970)
Edna I. Rawlings and Dianne K. Carter, "The Intractable Female
Patient" (1977)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-III,
"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder" (1980)
Psychiatrists Debate Osheroff v. Chestnut Lodge (1990)
Bibliography of First-Person Narratives of Madness in English
(Fourth Edition) by Gail A. Hornstein
Greg Eghigian is the director of the science, technology, and society program and associate professor of modern history at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Self as Project: Politics and Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century.
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