1782 –1786 ARNOLD, Thomas (psychiatrist) (1742 – 1816)

Observation on the nature, kinds, causes and prevention of insanity, lunacy, or madness. 2 vols.

Best historical account to the time. 2nd ed., 1806.

GMN 4920 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6103

1832 HECKER, Justus Friedrich Karl (1795 – 1850)

Die Tanzwuth, eine Volkskrankheit im Mittelalter.

A study of the dancing mania of the Middle Ages. An English translation (see No. 1678) appeared in 1835.

GMN 6516 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8084

1866 DUREAU, Alexis (1831 – 1904)

Notes bibliographiques pour servir à l'histoire du magnétisme animal: Analyse de tous les livres, brochures, articles de journaux publiés sur le magnétisme animal, en France et à l'étranger, à partir de 1766 jusqu'en 1866.

Later issue: Paris: chez l'auteur, Joubert, 1869.

GMN 7378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9550

1881 PREYER, William Thierry (1841 – 1897); BRAID, James (1795 – 1860)

Die Entdeckung des Hypnotismus: nebst einer ungedruckten Original-Abhandlung von [James] Braid in deutscher Übersetzung.

A translation into German by Preyer of a previously unpublished work on the history of hypnosis by James Braid.

GMN 5002 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6556

1882 TUKE, Daniel Hack (1827 – 1895)

Chapters in the history of the insane in the British Isles.

GMN 5003 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6560

1885 TUKE, Daniel Hack (1827 – 1895)

The insane in the United States and Canada.

The first history of psychiatry in the United States and Canada. Chapter 5 is the first survey of psychiatry in Canada.

GMN 5003.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6563

1893 LAEHR, Bernhard Heinrich (1820 – 1905)

Gedenktage der Psychiatrie und ihrer Hülfsdisciplinen in allen Ländern. 4te. Aufl.

A history of the subject, arranged in calendar form.

GMN 5004 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6565

1900 LAEHR, Bernhard Heinrich (1820 – 1905)

Die Literatur der Psychiatrie, Neurologie und Psychologie von 1459-1799. 3 vols.

GMN 5005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6567

1903 BRAMWELL, John Milne (1852 – 1925)

Hypnosis: Its history, practice and theory.

An unexcelled “scholarly, critical, and detailed analysis of hypnosis” (Bliss).

GMN 5005.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6573

1916 –1917 HURD, Henry Mills (1843 – 1927); BLUMER, George Alder (1857 – 1940); BURGESS, Thomas Joseph Workman (1849 – 1926); PILGRIM, Charles Winfield (1855 – 1934); DREWRY, William Francis (1860 – 1934); DEWEY, Richard (1845 – 1933)

The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada. Edited by Henry M. Hurd. 4 vols.

Hurd was Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. The work includes his history of American psychiatry. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 5006 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6576

1918 KRAEPELIN, Emil (1856 – 1926)

Hundert Jahre Psychiatrie.

English translation, New York, 1962.

GMN 5007 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6579

1930 LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE, Paul-Marie Maxime (1875 – 1953); VINCHON, Jean

Les malades de l’esprit et leurs médecins du XVIe siècle. Les étapes des connaissances psychiatriques de la Renaissance à Pinel.

GMN 5010 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6584

1930 SEMELAIGNE, René (1855 – 1934)

Les pionniers de la psychiatrie française avant et après Pinel. 2 vols.

A history of French psychiatry from Fernel to the end of the 19th century, focused around the work of each pioneer. Semelaigne was the great grand-nephew of Pinel.

GMN 5012 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6587

1936 KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)

Rumination number. Historical notes on rumination in man. The first historical monograph on the subject.

The first historical monograph on rumination syndrome or merycism.

GMN 10640 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12833

1941 ZILBOORG, Gregory (1890 – 1959); HENRY, George William (1889 – )

A history of medical psychology.

GMN 5013 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6592

1943 HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894); OBERNDORF, Clarence Paul (1882 – 1954)

The psychiatric novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes

A classically trained Freudian psychoanalyst reviewed the psychiatric insights - advanced for his time - that Holmes expressed in his novels.

GMN 11259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13456

1949 DEUTSCH, Albert (1905 – 1961)

The mentally ill in America. A history of their care and treatment from colonial times. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

GMN 5015.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6600

1961 LEIGH, Archibald Denis (1915 – 1998)

The historical development of British psychiatry. Vol. 1. (All published.)

GMN 5019.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6615

1961 FOUCAULT, Paul-Michel (Michel Foucault) (1926 – 1984)

Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique.

Foucault's first major book, translated into English as Madness and civilization: A history of insanity in the age of reason (1964).

GMN 9946 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12134

1963 HUNTER, Richard Alfred (1923 – 1981); MACALPINE, Ida (1899 – 1974)

Three hundred years of psychiatry, 1535-1860: A history presented in selected English texts.

GMN 5019.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6619

1963 KIELL, Norman (1916 – )

Psychoanalysis, psychology and literature: A bibliography.

Contains 4,460 references.

GMN 5019.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6640

1966 ALEXANDER, Franz Gabriel (1891 – 1964); SELESNICK, Sheldon Theodore (1925 – )

The history of psychiatry: An evaluation of psychiatric thought and practice from prehistoric times to the present.

GMN 5019.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6647

1968 ROSENBERG, Charles Ernest (1936 – )

The trial of the assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and law in the gilded age.

GMN 7928 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10101

1969 DÖRNER, Klaus (1933 – )

Bürger und Irre. Zur Sozialgeschichte und Wissenschaftssoziologie der Psychiatrie.

GMN 7916 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10089

1969 HUNTER, Richard Alfred (1923 – 1981); MACALPINE, Ida (1899 – 1974)

George III and the mad business.

GMN 10637 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12830

1971 HALE, Nathan G. Jr. (1922 – 2013)

Freud and the Americans: The beginnings of psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876–1917.

GMN 10765 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12961

1971 GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)

The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.

GMN 10858 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13054

1972 PARRY-JONES, William Llewelyn (1935 – 1997)

The trade in lunacy: A study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

GMN 8805 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10983

1973 GROB, Gerald N. (1931 – 2015)

Mental institutions in America: Social policy to 1873.

GMN 9153 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11332

1974 HUNTER, Richard Alfred (1923 – 1981); MACALPINE, Ida (1899 – 1974)

Psychiatry for the poor. 1851 Colney Hatch Asylum: Friem Hospital 1973. A medical and social history.

This is in effect a history of institutional psychiatry in Britain to time of writing.

GMN 5019.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6674

1974 SWAZEY, Judith P. (1939 – )

Chlorpromazine in psychiatry: A study of therapeutic innovation.

Chlorpromazine (CPZ) was the first drug in Western medicine found to have specific psychotropic effects agains a range of mental disease symtomatologies, particularly those associated with schizophrenia. It was market…

GMN 7009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9175

1975 HOWELLS, John Gwilym (1918 – 2007)

World history of psychiatry. Edited by J.G. Howells.

Contributions by 42 authors.

GMN 5019.17 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6698

1975 CLARKE, Basil Fulford Lowther

Mental disorder in earlier Britain: Exploratory studies.

GMN 9430 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11613

1977 WEST, Donald James (1924 – ); WALK, Alexander (1901 – 1982)

Daniel McNaughton: His trial and the aftermath, edited by Donald J. West and Alexander Walk.

A collective work edited by West and Walk.

GMN 7074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9241

1978 SIMON, Bennett

Mind and madness in ancient Greece: The classical roots of modern psychiatry.

GMN 9434 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11617

1981 PIGEAUD, Jackie (1937 – )

La maladie de l’âme. Étude sur la relation de l’âme et du corps dans la tradition médico-philosophique antique.

GMN 5019.19 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6705

1981 MACDONALD, Michael P.

Mystical Bedlam: Madness, anxiety, and healing in seventeenth-century England.

"Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over …

GMN 13554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15831

1983 GROB, Gerald N. (1931 – 2015)

Mental illness and American society, 1875-1940.

GMN 9156 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11335

1986 MCGOVERN, Constance M.

Masters of madness: Social origins of the American psychiatric profession.

GMN 9785 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11973

1988 CRABTREE, Adam

Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925. An annotated bibliography.

Describes 1905 works, mostly with detailed annotations.

GMN 5019.21 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6712

1988 GILMAN, Sander L. (1941 – )

Disease and representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS.

GMN 8066 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10242

1988 LEWIS, Milton James

Managing madness: Psychiatry and society in Australia 1788-1980.

GMN 10029 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12218

1989 MACGREGOR, John M. (1941 – )

The discovery of the art of the insane.

"This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major fi…

GMN 9733 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11920

1989 COLAIZZI, Janet (1936 – )

Homicidal insanity, 1800-1985.

"Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. The predominant opinion today among psychiatris…

GMN 9805 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11993

1990 JACKSON, Stanley W.

Melancholia and depression: From Hippocratic times to modern times.

GMN 9924 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12112

1990 MACDONALD, Michael P.; MURPHY, Terence R.

Sleepless souls: Suicide in early modern England.

"Sleepless Souls is a social and cultural history of suicide in early modern England. It traces the rise and fall of the crime of self-murder and explores why suicide came to be harshly punished in the sixteenth centu…

GMN 13555 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15832

1991 GROB, Gerald N. (1931 – 2015)

From asylum to community: Mental health policy in modern America.

GMN 9154 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11333

1991 MACDONALD, Michael P.

Witchcraft and hysteria in Elizabethan London: Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover case.

GMN 13556 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15833

1992 DOLS, Michael Walters (1942 – )

Majnūn: The madman in Medieval Islamic society.

GMN 8461 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10638

1992 GEISSMANN, Pierre (1930 – 1995); GEISSMANN, Claudine (1936 – 2007)

Histoire de la psychanalyse de l'enfant.

English translation as A history of child psychoanalysis (London and New York: Routledge, 1998).

GMN 9618 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11805