{"title":"Maurycy Urstein: A doctor and a celebrity.","authors":"Marek Jablonowski, Wojciech Jakubowski","doi":"10.1177/0957154X251316111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X251316111","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Maurycy Urstein was one of the few Polish physicians of the interwar period to enter into a dialogue with leading psychiatrists of his era. Among the richness of his scientific activity, two threads deserve particular attention: his studies on catatonia, thanks to which he gained the prestige of a scientist-clinician; as well as his forensic and psychological studies, which granted him media fame or, in modern terms, the status of a celebrity. Urstein published key works on psychiatry in German, and Polish translations appeared later. In the case of the monograph devoted to Eligiusz Niewiadomski, the language of the publication was Polish, which meant that it was basically not present in global scientific circulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"957154X251316111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144295097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Casimir Klim, Bryan VanDreese, Terence Meyerhoefer, Scott Breitinger
{"title":"Innovation and inequity in psychedelic research at the Mayo Clinic.","authors":"Casimir Klim, Bryan VanDreese, Terence Meyerhoefer, Scott Breitinger","doi":"10.1177/0957154X251318489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X251318489","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper provides an overview of psychedelic research at the Mayo Clinic in the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on methods, objectives, findings, and ethical practices. We highlight instances where researchers prioritized scientific progress over the autonomy, safety, and equitable treatment of research subjects, and discuss this history in the context of ongoing challenges with informed consent and equity in contemporary psychedelic research.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"957154X251318489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144001179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julie Nordgaard, Rasmus Handest, Maike Rotzoll, Lykke Elmquist, Lennart Jansson, Josef Parnas, Mads Gram Henriksen
{"title":"Results of a study of mentally ill vagrants: The failure to recognize mental illness (Ergebnisse Einer Untersuchung Geisteskranker Landstreicher: Die Verkennung der Geisteskrankheit).","authors":"Julie Nordgaard, Rasmus Handest, Maike Rotzoll, Lykke Elmquist, Lennart Jansson, Josef Parnas, Mads Gram Henriksen","doi":"10.1177/0957154X251319135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X251319135","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This classic text by the German psychiatrist Karl Wilmanns stands out as exceptional in the literature describing the psychopathology of mentally ill homeless people. Wilmanns' psychopathological descriptions are excellent, as are his observations of the disheartening failure to recognize dementia praecox in courts, prisons and workhouses, and the significant consequences of this failure for the patients. As he vividly shows, most patients manifested a wide range of severe psychiatric symptoms and signs that should have caught the attention of the courts, prison doctors, and even persons with no psychiatric knowledge. Wilmanns considers the main reason for this failure to be inadequate knowledge of psychopathology. Although dementia praecox (schizophrenia) is no longer a new concept, as it was at Wilmanns' time, we still see people with severe psychiatric symptoms roaming the streets and failing to benefit from timely recognition and treatment of their mental disorder.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"957154X251319135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144039217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guarding minds: The evolution of mental hygiene and stigmatization of mental illness in early 20th century Latin America.","authors":"Mariano Ruperthuz Honorato","doi":"10.1177/0957154X251316113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X251316113","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the evolution of mental hygiene and the stigmatization of mental illness in Latin America during the 20th century. It examines how psychiatric reforms and the mental hygiene movement influenced the social perception of mental illness, highlighting the spread of psychological categories and the construction of stigmatizing language. Using the publications of mental hygiene groups and case analyses in various countries, it reveals how these practices contributed to marginalization and social control, shaping contemporary mental health policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"957154X251316113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144041430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychiatry during National Socialism: Contacts with relatives of the victims of NS-Euthanasia as part of a consequent Memorial Culture.","authors":"Herwig Oberlerchner, Helge Stromberger","doi":"10.1177/0957154X251318501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X251318501","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Crimes against humanity took place in many institutions as well as psychiatric departments during the Nazi dictatorship. The cruel and inhumane history of psychiatry during National Socialism is already widely known and broadly published. Victims of the Nazi regime, of the Holocaust, of racism, racial hygiene, and hereditary biology have often been the subjects of scientific inquiry; the relatives and descendants of the killed inpatients have yet to be part of a scientific or psychotherapeutic response. Analogous to the psychiatric-psychotherapeutic approach with traumatized individuals, the procedure \"secure-describe and work through-reconnect\" was used in collective remembrance work and commemorative culture. As an example of one part of this collective memorial process, the grief work undertaken with the relatives of the victims of Nazi crime is presented. A phenomenological description presents the results of contact with 55 relatives and offspring of victims of Nazi crimes in psychiatric or associated institutions during National Socialism.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"957154X251318501"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143755083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcelo Gulão Pimentel, Klaus Chaves Alberto, Alexander Moreira-Almeida
{"title":"Allan Kardec's theories and methods to investigate the nature of psychical experiences.","authors":"Marcelo Gulão Pimentel, Klaus Chaves Alberto, Alexander Moreira-Almeida","doi":"10.1177/0957154X251316107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X251316107","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The French educator Allan Kardec (1804-1869) was one of the first researchers to propose the scientific investigation of psychical experiences and was an influential scholar in Europe during the second half of the 19th Century. However, his life and the outcome of his research in this field are currently little known and often misconstrued. This paper briefly presents Kardec's biography and his first steps in the investigation of psychical phenomena, especially mediumship. Kardec raised and tested several hypotheses on the causes of mediumistic phenomena: fraud; hallucinations; a new physical force; somnambulism (including unconscious cerebration); thought reflection (including telepathy and super-psi); and discarnate minds.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"957154X251316107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'<i>Pourquoi pas Solanes?</i>' Retracing genealogies of critical psychiatry through the emergence of mass exile and displacement as mental pathologies.","authors":"Mari Paz Balibrea","doi":"10.1177/0957154X251316112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X251316112","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article brings together contemporary works by Frantz Fanon and Catalan exile psychiatrist Josep Solanes to consider the simultaneous emergence at the end of the Second World War of discourses articulating the plight of refugees and racialized people through the medium of psychiatric discourses focusing on socially inflicted mental pathologies of exile and displacement. Emphasizing in particular their respective phenomenological approaches, it is argued that their trajectories can be attached to the same genealogy of radical psychiatry emerging in the Global North and then continuing into the Global South (Africa in the case of Fanon, Latin America in that of Solanes) where they were developed and made their impact.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"957154X251316112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jean-Martin Charcot and Scandinavian literature: On the 200th anniversary of his birth.","authors":"Stanley Finger, Ragnar Stien, Espen Dietrichs","doi":"10.1177/0957154X251316115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X251316115","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, a towering figure familiar to late-19th-century physicians, became better known to the laity of different countries through periodicals, books, and plays. This article examines how Charcot influenced the works of four popular Scandinavian authors: Norwegians Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Hans Ernst Kinck, and Øvre Richter Frich, and a Swede, Axel Munthe. These popular novelists and playwrights, all having lived in Paris, provided pictures of different sides of the brilliant and innovative Parisian physician and researcher, who despite his renown was nonetheless criticized for his theories about the hysterias and hypnosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"957154X251316115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143625747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Harvey Cushing and Sigmund Freud shaking hands: How electrical brain stimulation became a psychoanalytic method to study the unconscious (1870-1955).","authors":"Max van der Linden, Richard Ridderinkhof","doi":"10.1177/0957154X251318494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X251318494","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the first half of the 1950s, psychoanalysts and neurosurgeons used electrical brain stimulation to explore hard-to-reach, unconscious psychological processes such as repressed memories, defence mechanisms and sexual identity. The development of evolutionary theory and neurophysiological methods and theory, together with the birth of psychoanalysis, were important precursors to these remarkable stimulation experiments. Experimental, theoretical and clinical antecedents of these stimulation experiments between the 1870s and the 1940s are discussed to show how smoothly the apparently opposing perspectives of psychoanalysis and neurophysiology merged. Two case studies are then briefly described. It is concluded that this striking and brief collaboration demonstrated a pragmatic and eclectic approach that integrated different theories and methods for a more holistic understanding and treatment of psychiatric disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"957154X251318494"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143625746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
History of PsychiatryPub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1177/0957154X241254506
Haszira Muhamad Yusof, Azlizan Mat Enh, Suffian Mansor
{"title":"A history of mental illness among women in the Straits Settlements in the nineteenth century.","authors":"Haszira Muhamad Yusof, Azlizan Mat Enh, Suffian Mansor","doi":"10.1177/0957154X241254506","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0957154X241254506","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Straits Settlements, a collective colony under the administration of British Malaya, was a very unhealthy area in the early years of the nineteenth century. One of the most common sicknesses was mental illness, which could not be cured by medicines. The number of women suffering from mental illness was higher than in men, and it was found that there were many internal and external causes. The increasing number of women patients affected the role of mental hospitals, which were not only for treatment purposes, but also for business. This study will discuss the factors causing women to suffer from mental illness, and the role of the asylum for women mental patients in the nineteenth century.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"309-322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141321791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}