History

Looking back on his confinement to Bethlem, Restoration playwright Nathaniel Lee declared: "They called me mad, and ...

Astonishing and controversial--garnering front-page headlines when first published--this classic book examines why Freud...

In this ground-breaking cultural history of psychotherapy, historian and psychologist Philip Cushman shows how the devel...

When published in 1981, "The Mismeasure of Man" was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the answer to those who would cl...

This classic volume, first written in 1976, describes the systematic manner in which black scholars were denied the oppo...

Discover how past events have shaped psychology as we know it today. Learn about the fascinating people who helped cr...

The engrossing, definitive saga of the great thinkers and scientists who for twenty-five hundred years have been investi...

A brave and brilliantly researched intellectual history of the relationship between women and mental illness since 1800....

“Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead...