Links to web sites related to madness,
psychiatry, neuroscience, and the mind
This post will be periodically updated.
Blogs
h-madness blog
Updated almost daily, this blog presents the latest information and commentary on topics related to the history of psychiatry
Journals
Podcasts
Most of these podcasts can be downloaded via itunes.
Organizations
Philoctetes Society
The Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination: This non-profit organization holds roundtable discussions and events on topics related to creativity and thought. All events are free and open to the public, and most are posted online in video form.
Conferences, Seminars, Events
Madness and Literature
1st International Health Humanities Conference: Madness and Literature to be held at Nottingham 6th – 8th August 2010
Museums
Bethlem Royal Hospital
“The Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum records the lives and experience and celebrates the achievements of people with mental health problems.” Founded as a hospital for the medical treatment of insanity in 1547, the museum opened in 1970 and exhibits primarily work by artists who have at some time suffered from mental disorder, but also houses historical material.
The Prinzhorn Collection
This Psychiatric University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany, houses a collection of drawings, paintings, collages, textiles, sculptures and a great diversity of texts which were produced in hospitals, mainly in the German-speaking world, between 1880 and 1920. In addition to the core Prinzhorn collection, permanent loans and donations were deposited in the Psychiatric Clinic, such as works created at the Rhine Federal Hospital Viersen (around 1900), wooden sculptures by Carl Genzel from the Wesphalia Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Clinic, Eickelborn near Lippstadt (approx. 1920), the Petschner Collection, Psychiatric Hospital Merxhausen, Bad Emstal (1960-1980), as well as works of art of contemporary patient-artists. Description paraphrased from museum site.
Case Histories
Case histories from the history of psychiatry
Other helpful sites
Google Translate
Google translate makes it possible to read many of the pertinent sites that are written in German or French.
