In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition caused by a vitamin deficiency Asia London Palomba A dormitory at the San ...

This past week at the University of Strathclyde, we hosted a conference called: 'Deinstitutionalization and After: Post-War Psychiatry in Global Perspective. Invited were not only historians, but also ...

Happy New Year to all my esteemed readers, community members, visitors and guests. My apologies for the hiatus in articles over the past several weeks, which was due to the holiday season and various ...

Growing up as a boy in northern New Jersey, my first encounter with psychiatry was driving with my grandparents past a large, imposing hospital complex in Essex County called Overbrook. Built in a ...