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(The median citation count of History of Psychiatry is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Acknowledgements	12
Deinstitutionalisation and the move to community care: comparing the changing dimensions of mental healthcare after 1922 in the Republic of Ireland and England	9
The work of Donald Ewen Cameron: from psychic driving to MK Ultra	7
‘Regarding the scientific viewpoint in psychiatry’, lecture by Carl Wernicke (1880)	6
‘I have to-day seen all the 671 patients in residence in this institution’: not listening to patients in the long 1920s	6
Hypnosis, psychoanalysis, and Morita therapy: the evolution of Kokyō Nakamura’s psychotherapeutic theories and practices	5
Classic Text No. 134: ‘A case of Wernicke-Bostroem’s expansive autopsychosis’, by Ib Ostenfeld (1944)	4
Psychiatric epidemiology and the Chicago School of Sociology	4
De lunatico inquirendo: managing family inheritance across madness in eighteenth-century London	4
Acknowledgements	4
The Stirling County Study: a case study of interdisciplinarity and its effects on the history of psychiatric epidemiology	4
Mental observation wards: an alternative provision for emergency psychiatric care in England in the first half of the twentieth century	4
Book Review: Åsa Jansson, From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry	4
Book Review: Steeves Demazeux, L’éclipse du Symptôme. L’observation Clinique en Psychiatrie: 1800–1950	3
Revisiting Eugène Minkowski’s concept of schizophrenic melancholia	3
Book Review: Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us	3
Biocultural psychopathology as a new epistemology for mental disorders	3
A history of mental illness among women in the Straits Settlements in the nineteenth century	3
Classic Text No. 133: ‘Maxwell Jones and the Therapeutic Community’, by David Millard (1996)	3
Charles Lloyd Tuckey: medical hypnotist and ‘amiable necromancer’	3
Book Review: Matthew Smith, The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States	3
From the Midtown Manhattan Study to the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study: the advent of mechanical objectivity in psychiatry	3
Psychiatry during National Socialism: Contacts with relatives of the victims of NS-Euthanasia as part of a consequent Memorial Culture	2
Book Reviews: Andrew Scull, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness	2
An overview on Hebephrenia, a diagnostic cornerstone in the neurodevelopmental model of Schizophrenia	2

Professional dynamics of the forensic evaluation of mental states in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway	2
‘A proposal for research in the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders’, by Alexander H Leighton	2
Maoism and mental illness: psychiatric institutionalization during the Chinese Cultural Revolution	2
Emil Kraepelin as a historian of psychiatry – one hundred years on	2
The notion of excessive childhood restlessness in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century	2
Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788–1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents	1
Book Review: Entre médicos y médiums: Saberes, tensiones y límites en el espiritismo argentino (1880–1959) ParraAlejandro (2024). Entre médicos y médiums: Saberes, tensiones y límites en el espiritism	1
Supply or demand? Institutionalization of the mentally ill in the emerging Swedish welfare state, 1900–59	1
Whose experts? How federalism shaped psychiatry in the late Habsburg monarchy	1
The saga of James Lucett and the process for curing insanity, Part 1 (1811–14): The rise and fall of Delahoyde and Lucett	1
Book Review: Madeline Kearin Ryan, A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane	1
Book Review: ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East	1
Book Review: Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea	1
Acknowledgements	1
George Stephen Penny (1885–1964): his life and medical encounters before, during and after admission to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum	1
Book Review: Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum	1
The Basaglia Law. Returning dignity to psychiatric patients: the historical, political and social factors that led to the closure of psychiatric hospitals in Italy in 1978	1
Fear, disgust, hate: negative emotions evoked by animals in ancient literature	1
A mad yearning for solitude: Timon the Misanthrope and his relevance to the study of ancient psychopathology	1
‘ Pourquoi pas Solanes? ’ Retracing genealogies of critical psychiatry through the emergence of mass exile and displacement as mental pathologies	1
Jean-Martin Charcot and Scandinavian literature: On the 200th anniversary of his birth	1
‘Acquired idiotism’, by Frederik Lange (1883)	1
Marcel Réja and theatre therapy	1
‘Eccentricity’, by DH Tuke (1892)	1
Book Reviews: Shilpi Rajpal, Curing Madness? A Social and Cultural History of Insanity in Colonial North India, 1800–1950s	1
Danilo Cargnello and his contribution to the development of phenomenological thought: an overview	1
Introduction: Madness and psychiatry in East Asian countries in the modern period	1
Psychiatric treatment of female mental patients in the Federated Malay States (FMS) of British-Malaya, 1930–57	1
Book Review: Ronald Chase, Great Discoveries in Psychiatry	1
Book Review: Alexander Batthyány, Viktor Frankl and the Shoah: Advancing the Debate	1
Institutionalization of the insane in the Russian Baltic provinces: a case study of the Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases in Tartu, 1881–95	1
Shūzō Kure’s essay on psychotherapy including music in twentieth-century Japan (1916)	1
Social issues relating to Vladimir Bekhterev’s concept of reflexology: a hitherto underestimated aspect of his work	1
Soul, body and mental health – applying Rabbi Moshe de Maimon’s philosophy to the contemporary phenomenon of drug addiction	1
Innovation and inequity in psychedelic research at the Mayo Clinic	1
Malaria therapy for general paralysis of the insane at the Sunbury Hospital for the Insane in Australia, 1925–6	1
The short tenure and long legacy of interior secretary Stanley K. Hathaway	1
The case of Dr Pownall – mad doctor, sane patient and insane murderer	1
Ludwig Binswanger’s Comments on Hermann Rorschach’s Psychodiagnostik	1
What is Psychiatry? Was ist das, die Psychiatrie?	1
The processes and context of innovation in mental healthcare: Oxfordshire as a case study	1
Historical and conceptual features of acute polymorphic psychosis: a myth of European psychiatry from bouffée délirante to ICD-11 acute and transient psychotic disorder	0
Erratum to: Gustav Nikolaus Specht (1860–1940): psychiatric practice, research and teaching during a change of psychiatric paradigm before and after Kraepelin	0
Psychiatric hospital, domestic strategies and gender issues in Tokyo, c. 1920–45	0
Revisiting Emil Kraepelin’s eugenic arguments	0
Landmarks in the history of neurosyphilis: the neglected observations of Vincenzo Chiarugi	0
Classic Text No. 136 ‘On the question of unitary psychosis’, by Harry Marcuse (1926)	0
Results of a study of mentally ill vagrants: The failure to recognize mental illness (Ergebnisse Einer Untersuchung Geisteskranker Landstreicher: Die Verkennung der Geisteskrankheit)	0
‘Picture imperfect’: the motives and uses of patient photography in the asylum	0
Innovation in mental health care: Bertram Mandelbrote, the Phoenix Unit and the therapeutic community approach	0

A story that had to be told: Narrative determinism and ‘The Sleep Room’	0
Happenstance and regulatory culture: the evolution of innovative community mental health services in Oxfordshire in the late twentieth century	0
Power in psychiatry. Soviet peer and lay hierarchies in the context of political abuse of psychiatry	0
The epistemologies of research on the survival of consciousness after death in the golden era of the Society for Psychical Research (1882–1930)	0
Melancholia in late life in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia, 1871–1905: symptoms, behaviours and outcomes	0
Empathy or sympathy: a necessary distinction?	0
George Wallett, 1775–1845: entrepreneur and asylum doctor	0
Introduction to Special Issue: Geneses, organizations and transformations of psychiatric epidemiology	0
Phrenitis and the pathology of the mind in western medical thought (fifth century BCE to twentieth century cE)	0
Gustav Nikolaus Specht (1860–1940): psychiatric practice, research and teaching during a change of psychiatric paradigm before and after Kraepelin	0
Possibly mad? Marital murder in the early twentieth century: a matched-case gender analysis of forensic psychiatric investigations in Sweden	0
Book Review: Kylie Smith, Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing	0
Foreign medical graduates and American psychiatry	0
The ‘social’ in psychiatry and mental health: quantification, mental illness and society in international scientific networks (1920s–1950s)	0
Distinguishing between neurosis and psychosis: discourses on neurosis in colonial Korea	0
‘Eccentricity’, by DH Tuke (1892)	0
The psychopathic hospital	0
‘A proposal for research in the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders’, by Alexander H Leighton (1950)	0
The ‘insanity’ of Lady Durham	0
Naming psychiatry: apropos earliest use of the term by Karl Friedrich Burdach (1800)	0
Animal magnetism in Italy during the nineteenth century: the conflicting relationship with the Catholic Church	0
Guarding minds: The evolution of mental hygiene and stigmatization of mental illness in early 20th century Latin America	0
The Goldwater Rule: a bastion of a bygone era?	0
This equivocal dust: a review of Material Cultures of Psychiatry, edited by M Ankele and B Majerus	0
Elton Mayo and Thomas Henry Reeve Mathewson: the forgotten Australian pioneers of the treatment of patients with shell shock, neurasthenia and nervous breakdown	0
Harvey Cushing and Sigmund Freud shaking hands: How electrical brain stimulation became a psychoanalytic method to study the unconscious (1870–1955)	0
From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry	0
Book Review: Claire Hilton, Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War: A Study of Austerity on London’s Fringe	0
Maurycy Urstein: A doctor and a celebrity	0
Allan Kardec’s theories and methods to investigate the nature of psychical experiences	0
Understanding understanding in psychiatry	0
British mental healthcare responses to adult homosexuality and gender non-conforming children at the turn of the twenty-first century	0
Research on the history of psychiatry	0
Personality and mental disorders: sensitive character, melancholic type, and addenda	0
The saga of James Lucett and the process for curing insanity, Part 2 (1814–38): ‘Insanity cured’	0
The development of supported mental health accommodation and community psychiatric nursing in Oxfordshire	0
Cheerfulness in the history of psychiatry	0
‘Early childhood autism, Asperger type’, by H. Asperger (1982)	0
Book review: Outrageous Reason: Madness and Race in Britain and Empire, 1780–2020 BarhamPeter, Outrageous Reason: Madness and Race in Britain and Empire, 1780–2020. Wyastone Leys, Monmouth: PCCS Books	0
The development of a creative work rehabilitation organisation	0
Rosenhan revisited: successful scientific fraud	0
Neither saintly nor psychotic: a narrative systematic review of the evolving Western perception of voice hearing	0
Approaching Polish madness: concepts and treatment of psychosis in Polish psychiatry of the inter-war period	0
Managing Chineseness: neurasthenia and psychiatry in Taiwan in the second half of the twentieth century	0
Symonds on fear and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)	0
Do no harm in due process – a historical analysis of social determinates of institutionalization in the USA	0
Mortality among those certified under lunacy legislation in Scotland during World War I	0
End of an era or a moment of reshuffling: fragmentation of entry-level training in China’s psycho-boom	0
Book Review: Leonard Smith, Private Madhouses in England, 1640–1815: Commercialised Care for the Insane	0
Human radiation for medicine, spiritism and hypnosis in Argentina: scientific controversies around vital radiations (1880–1930)	0
Empathy: a case study in the historical epistemology of psychiatry	0
Relaying station for empires’ outcasts: managing ‘lunatics’ in pre-World War II Hong Kong	0
Attempted suicide in older people in New South Wales, Australia, 1870–1908	0
The psychiatric work villages in Israel: a micro working community	0
‘A landmark in psychiatric progress’? The role of evidence in the rise and fall of insulin coma therapy	0
Classic Text No. 135: ‘On inheritance of the insanities’, by Jens Chr. Smith (1924)	0
Mortality in the Victorian asylum: was it so high? Standardised Mortality Rate compared with historical methods	0
Child development, film evidence, and epidemiological sciences: Elwyn James Anthony and the 1957 Zurich International Congress of Psychiatry	0
Book Reviews: Alice Wexler, The Analyst: A Daughter’s Memoir	0
A Georgian tragedy of madness and mystery: Louisa, the ‘maid of the haystack’	0