• 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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