History of Psychiatry
Overview
History of Psychiatry is a scientific journal, published by Sage Publications since 1990 in English. The journal's country of origin is United Kingdom and its primary focus areas are psychiatry and history of medicine.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Hist Psychiatry
Publisher
Sage Publications
Start
1990
End
Continuing
Frequency
Quarterly.
p-ISSN
0957-154X
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Specialties
Psychiatry
History of Medicine
History of Medicine
Metrics
Metrics
h-index / Ranks: 10441
30
SJR / Ranks: 13369
211
CiteScore / Ranks: 13177
0.90
Recent Articles
1.
van der Linden M, Ridderinkhof R
Hist Psychiatry
. 2025 Mar;
:957154X251318494.
PMID: 40079331
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...
2.
Finger S, Stien R, Dietrichs E
Hist Psychiatry
. 2025 Mar;
:957154X251316115.
PMID: 40079303
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...
3.
Richardson C, Robson A, Sood L, Ferrier I, Owen A
Hist Psychiatry
. 2024 Aug;
:957154X241269206.
PMID: 39118302
Mortality is closely linked to age, sex, and social and historical context. Standardised Mortality Rates (SMR) address these contextual factors by comparing mortality in a population under study with that...
4.
Escamilla Lerner J, de Castro-Manglano P, Leon-Sanz P
Hist Psychiatry
. 2024 Jul;
:957154X241263990.
PMID: 39066649
This study delves into the historical documentation from 1900 to 1936 by Spanish doctors and educators concerning children's hyperactivity. By focusing on medical perspectives of the time, we aim to...
5.
Markova I
Hist Psychiatry
. 2024 Jul;
:957154X241261031.
PMID: 39039941
As a deeply hybrid discipline, psychiatry demands research that tackles the concepts constituting it and its objects. This is an essential prerequisite to empirical studies, the validity of which are...
6.
Yusof H, Enh A, Mansor S
Hist Psychiatry
. 2024 Jun;
35(3-4):309-322.
PMID: 38877711
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...
7.
Engmann B
Hist Psychiatry
. 2024 Jun;
35(3-4):347-354.
PMID: 38863269
This article investigates the diversity of social and political assertions in the work of Vladimir M Bekhterev. Its findings reveal that he drew social and political conclusions based on his...
8.
Thumiger C
Hist Psychiatry
. 2024 Jun;
35(3-4):355-362.
PMID: 38859599
is ubiquitous in ancient medicine and philosophy. Galen mentions the disease innumerable times, Patristic authors take it as a favourite allegory of human flaws, and no ancient doctor fails to...
9.
Loubry C, Hendrickx M, Drouin E
Hist Psychiatry
. 2024 Jun;
35(3-4):341-346.
PMID: 38840388
We report on the play entitled (The daily bread) by Marcel Réja (1873-1957), a French alienist and historian of art in asylums. He also wrote short plays, although he is...
10.
Walusinski O, Fitzgerald A
Hist Psychiatry
. 2024 May;
35(3-4):323-333.
PMID: 38803201
In 1762, Louis-Antoine Marquis de Caraccioli (1719-1803), a prolific writer of the eighteenth century, dedicated a book to a psychological theme that medicine has forgotten: '' in French, which we...