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Books in the Mental Health in Historical Perspective series

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  • - Past, Present and Future
     
    £50.49

    Within this context, the book aims at stoking and informing debate and conversation about how to prevent mental illness and improve mental health in the years to come.Chapters 3, 10, and 12 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

  • - Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
    by Åsa Jansson
    £47.99

    This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern biomedical mood disorder, paving the way for the emergence of clinical depression as a psychiatric illness in the twentieth century?

  • - Alexander Luria's 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History
    by Hannah Proctor
    £58.49 - 73.49

    This book situates the work of the Soviet psychologist and neurologist Alexander Luria (1902-1977) in its historical context and explores the 'romantic' approach to scientific writing developed in his case histories.

  • - Commercialised Care for the Insane
    by Leonard Smith
    £74.49 - 83.99

    This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon.

  • - The History of Psychosurgery and Psychiatry in Denmark
    by Jesper Vaczy Kragh
    £114.49

    This book tells the story of one of medicine's most (in)famous treatments: the neurosurgical operation commonly known as lobotomy.

  • - A Study of Austerity on London's Fringe
    by Claire Hilton
    £37.99 - 47.99

    This open access book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects of wartime austerity and deprivation on the provision of care.

  • - In and Beyond the Asylum
     
    £22.49

    This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional walls and consider mental health through the lenses of institutions, policy, nomenclature, art, lived experience, and popular culture.

  • - Past, Present and Future
     
    £50.49

    Within this context, the book aims at stoking and informing debate and conversation about how to prevent mental illness and improve mental health in the years to come.Chapters 3, 10, and 12 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

  • - Shackled Bodies, Unchained Minds
    by Sarah Ann Pinto
    £47.99

    The book argues that the colonial lunatic asylum failed to assimilate into Indian society and therefore remained a failed colonial-medical enterprise. Lunatic asylums left a legacy of historical trauma for the indigenous community because of their coercive and custodial character.

  • - Past and Present
     
    £66.49

    The relationship between migration and mental health is controversial, contested, and pertinent. In a highly mobile world, where voluntary and enforced movements of population are increasing and likely to continue to grow, that relationship needs to be better understood, yet the terminology is often vague and the issues are wide-ranging.

  • by Yolana Pringle
    £18.49

    This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. As Pringle shows, however, the history of psychiatry during the years of decolonisation remained one of marginality, and ultimately, in the context of war and violence, the decolonisation of psychiatry was incomplete.

  • - Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World
     
    £104.49

    The book relates the history of post-war psychiatry, focusing on deinstitutionalisation, namely the shift from asylum to community in the second part of the twentieth century. After the Second World War, psychiatry and mental health care were reshaped by deinstitutionalisation.

  • - Shackled Bodies, Unchained Minds
    by Sarah Ann Pinto
    £68.49

    The book argues that the colonial lunatic asylum failed to assimilate into Indian society and therefore remained a failed colonial-medical enterprise. Lunatic asylums left a legacy of historical trauma for the indigenous community because of their coercive and custodial character.

  • - Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care
    by Alice Mauger
    £22.49

    This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class and status and the emergence of a strong middle class informed interactions between gender, religion, identity and insanity.

  • - Doctors, Patients, and Practices
    by Jennifer Wallis
    £22.49

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain.

  • - Barbara Robb's Campaign 1965-1975
    by Claire Hilton
    £22.49

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS).

  • - Past and Present
     
    £93.99

    The relationship between migration and mental health is controversial, contested, and pertinent. In a highly mobile world, where voluntary and enforced movements of population are increasing and likely to continue to grow, that relationship needs to be better understood, yet the terminology is often vague and the issues are wide-ranging.

  • by Alison Haggett
    £17.49 - 22.49

    This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the mid-twentieth century. It argues that statistics suggesting women have been more vulnerable to depression and anxiety are misleading since they underplay a host of alternative presentations of 'distress' more common in men.

  •  
    £104.49

    This is the first book to address the history of psychiatry under Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, from the Soviet Union to East Germany. It brings together new research addressing understandings of mental health and disorder, treatments and therapies, and the interplay between politics, ideology and psychiatry.

  • - A Genealogy of Cutting and Overdosing
    by Chris Millard
    £13.99 - 17.99

    This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes that occur in mental and physical healthcare, social work and wider politics.

  • - Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World
     
    £73.49

    The book relates the history of post-war psychiatry, focusing on deinstitutionalisation, namely the shift from asylum to community in the second part of the twentieth century. After the Second World War, psychiatry and mental health care were reshaped by deinstitutionalisation.

  • - Bringing History into the Conversation
    by Catharine Coleborne
    £20.49

    This short book argues for the relevance of historical perspectives on mental health, exploring how these histories can and should inform debates about mental healthcare today.

  • - In and Beyond the Asylum
     
    £22.49

    This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional walls and consider mental health through the lenses of institutions, policy, nomenclature, art, lived experience, and popular culture.

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