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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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Personality and mental disorders: sensitive character, melancholic type, and addenda	9
Psychiatric treatment of female mental patients in the Federated Malay States (FMS) of British-Malaya, 1930–57	6
The development of supported mental health accommodation and community psychiatric nursing in Oxfordshire	5
The work of Donald Ewen Cameron: from psychic driving to MK Ultra	4
The case of Dr Pownall – mad doctor, sane patient and insane murderer	4
‘A proposal for research in the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders’, by Alexander H Leighton	4
Deinstitutionalisation and the move to community care: comparing the changing dimensions of mental healthcare after 1922 in the Republic of Ireland and England	4
Book Reviews: Alice Wexler, The Analyst: A Daughter’s Memoir	4
Professional dynamics of the forensic evaluation of mental states in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway	4
The saga of James Lucett and the process for curing insanity, Part 1 (1811–14): The rise and fall of Delahoyde and Lucett	3
George Wallett, 1775–1845: entrepreneur and asylum doctor	3
Acknowledgements	3
Older people in hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Australia, 1849–1905	3
Historical and conceptual features of acute polymorphic psychosis: a myth of European psychiatry from bouffée délirante to ICD-11 acute and transient psychotic disorder	3
Marcel Réja and theatre therapy	3
Foreign medical graduates and American psychiatry	3
Book Reviews: Andrew Scull, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness	3
George Stephen Penny (1885–1964): his life and medical encounters before, during and after admission to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum	3
Relaying station for empires’ outcasts: managing ‘lunatics’ in pre-World War II Hong Kong	2
Jean-Martin Charcot and Scandinavian literature: On the 200th anniversary of his birth	2
An overview on Hebephrenia, a diagnostic cornerstone in the neurodevelopmental model of Schizophrenia	2
Classic Text No. 128: Thomas Brown’s comments on Erasmus Darwin’s view on madness	2
Allan Kardec’s theories and methods to investigate the nature of psychical experiences	2
Freud, Griesinger and Foville: the influence of the nineteenth-century psychiatric tradition in the Freudian concept of delusion as an ‘attempt at recovery’	2
Soul, body and mental health – applying Rabbi Moshe de Maimon’s philosophy to the contemporary phenomenon of drug addiction	2

Innovation in mental health care: Bertram Mandelbrote, the Phoenix Unit and the therapeutic community approach	2
‘I have to-day seen all the 671 patients in residence in this institution’: not listening to patients in the long 1920s	2
Psychiatry during National Socialism: Contacts with relatives of the victims of NS-Euthanasia as part of a consequent Memorial Culture	2
‘Acquired idiotism’, by Frederik Lange (1883)	2
Whose experts? How federalism shaped psychiatry in the late Habsburg monarchy	2
Empathy: a case study in the historical epistemology of psychiatry	2
Classic Text No. 135: ‘On inheritance of the insanities’, by Jens Chr. Smith (1924)	1
‘A proposal for research in the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders’, by Alexander H Leighton (1950)	1
Social issues relating to Vladimir Bekhterev’s concept of reflexology: a hitherto underestimated aspect of his work	1
Revisiting Emil Kraepelin’s eugenic arguments	1
Corrigendum	1
‘Regarding the scientific viewpoint in psychiatry’, lecture by Carl Wernicke (1880)	1
Mental observation wards: an alternative provision for emergency psychiatric care in England in the first half of the twentieth century	1
De lunatico inquirendo: managing family inheritance across madness in eighteenth-century London	1
‘ Pourquoi pas Solanes? ’ Retracing genealogies of critical psychiatry through the emergence of mass exile and displacement as mental pathologies	1
Danilo Cargnello and his contribution to the development of phenomenological thought: an overview	1
Ludwig Binswanger’s Comments on Hermann Rorschach’s Psychodiagnostik	1
Book Review: Simon Jarrett, Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day	1
Gustav Nikolaus Specht (1860–1940): psychiatric practice, research and teaching during a change of psychiatric paradigm before and after Kraepelin	1
Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788–1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents	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
Erratum to: Gustav Nikolaus Specht (1860–1940): psychiatric practice, research and teaching during a change of psychiatric paradigm before and after Kraepelin	1
Five autopsy reports of rib fractures in the mental hospital of Reggio Emilia (1874–5): pathogenesis proposal in defence of the ‘non-restraint’ system	1
Neither saintly nor psychotic: a narrative systematic review of the evolving Western perception of voice hearing	1
‘A landmark in psychiatric progress’? The role of evidence in the rise and fall of insulin coma therapy	1
ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East	1
The Goldwater Rule: a bastion of a bygone era?	1
Maoism and mental illness: psychiatric institutionalization during the Chinese Cultural Revolution	1
Empathy or sympathy: a necessary distinction?	1
Cheerfulness in the history of psychiatry	1
Yawning in the history of psychiatry	1
Phrenitis and the pathology of the mind in western medical thought (fifth century BCE to twentieth century cE)	1
‘Picture imperfect’: the motives and uses of patient photography in the asylum	1
Fear, disgust, hate: negative emotions evoked by animals in ancient literature	1
Hypnosis, psychoanalysis, and Morita therapy: the evolution of Kokyō Nakamura’s psychotherapeutic theories and practices	1
Introduction to Special Issue: Geneses, organizations and transformations of psychiatric epidemiology	1
Approaching Polish madness: concepts and treatment of psychosis in Polish psychiatry of the inter-war period	1
Naming psychiatry: apropos earliest use of the term by Karl Friedrich Burdach (1800)	1
The processes and context of innovation in mental healthcare: Oxfordshire as a case study	1
A mad yearning for solitude: Timon the Misanthrope and his relevance to the study of ancient psychopathology	1
Supply or demand? Institutionalization of the mentally ill in the emerging Swedish welfare state, 1900–59	1
From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry	1
Attempted suicide in older people in New South Wales, Australia, 1870–1908	1
Introduction: Madness and psychiatry in East Asian countries in the modern period	1
Human radiation for medicine, spiritism and hypnosis in Argentina: scientific controversies around vital radiations (1880–1930)	0
Power in psychiatry. Soviet peer and lay hierarchies in the context of political abuse of psychiatry	0
From talking cure to play- and group-therapy: outpatient mental health care for children in the Netherlands c. 1945–70	0
Psychiatric epidemiology and the Chicago School of Sociology	0
Charles Lloyd Tuckey: medical hypnotist and ‘amiable necromancer’	0
Melancholia Scytharum: the early modern psychiatry of transgender identification	0

Symonds on fear and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)	0
The psychopathic hospital	0
Book Review: Steeves Demazeux, L’éclipse du Symptôme. L’observation Clinique en Psychiatrie: 1800–1950	0
Book Review: Alexander Batthyány, Viktor Frankl and the Shoah: Advancing the Debate	0
Book Review: Kylie Smith, Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing	0
Classic Text No. 134: ‘A case of Wernicke-Bostroem’s expansive autopsychosis’, by Ib Ostenfeld (1944)	0
‘Eccentricity’, by DH Tuke (1892)	0
Distinguishing between neurosis and psychosis: discourses on neurosis in colonial Korea	0
End of an era or a moment of reshuffling: fragmentation of entry-level training in China’s psycho-boom	0
The ‘insanity’ of Lady Durham	0
Emil Kraepelin as a historian of psychiatry – one hundred years on	0
Book Review: Madeline Kearin Ryan, A Refuge of Cure or Care: The Sensory Dimensions of Confinement at the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane	0
Wearing the wolf skin: psychiatry and the phenomenon of the berserker in medieval Scandinavia	0
Book Review: Åsa Jansson, From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry	0
Harvey Cushing and Sigmund Freud shaking hands: How electrical brain stimulation became a psychoanalytic method to study the unconscious (1870–1955)	0
The psychiatric work villages in Israel: a micro working community	0
Book Review: Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us	0
What is Psychiatry? Was ist das, die Psychiatrie?	0
Book Review: Leonard Smith, Private Madhouses in England, 1640–1815: Commercialised Care for the Insane	0
Book Review: Ronald Chase, Great Discoveries in Psychiatry	0
Research on the history of psychiatry	0
Possibly mad? Marital murder in the early twentieth century: a matched-case gender analysis of forensic psychiatric investigations in Sweden	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
Biocultural psychopathology as a new epistemology for mental disorders	0
Book Reviews: Shilpi Rajpal, Curing Madness? A Social and Cultural History of Insanity in Colonial North India, 1800–1950s	0
Acknowledgements	0
Melancholia in late life in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia, 1871–1905: symptoms, behaviours and outcomes	0
Child development, film evidence, and epidemiological sciences: Elwyn James Anthony and the 1957 Zurich International Congress of Psychiatry	0
Animal magnetism in Italy during the nineteenth century: the conflicting relationship with the Catholic Church	0
British mental healthcare responses to adult homosexuality and gender non-conforming children at the turn of the twenty-first century	0
The saga of James Lucett and the process for curing insanity, Part 2 (1814–38): ‘Insanity cured’	0
Research on the history of psychiatry	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
The notion of excessive childhood restlessness in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century	0
From the Midtown Manhattan Study to the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study: the advent of mechanical objectivity in psychiatry	0
Mind and soul? Two notions in the light of contemporary philosophy	0
Book Review: Claire Hilton, Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War: A Study of Austerity on London’s Fringe	0
‘Early childhood autism, Asperger type’, by H. Asperger (1982)	0
Book Review: Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum	0
Understanding understanding in psychiatry	0
Book Review: ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East	0
Collecting to understand: the art of children and the medical-pedagogical approach in twentieth-century Portugal	0
Happenstance and regulatory culture: the evolution of innovative community mental health services in Oxfordshire in the late twentieth century	0
Mortality among those certified under lunacy legislation in Scotland during World War I	0
Mortality in the Victorian asylum: was it so high? Standardised Mortality Rate compared with historical methods	0
‘Eccentricity’, by DH Tuke (1892)	0
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	0
Book Review: Matthew Smith, The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States	0
Managing Chineseness: neurasthenia and psychiatry in Taiwan in the second half of the twentieth century	0
‘Some main features in the history of the paranoid illness forms’, by Aa. Thune Jacobsen (1921)	0
Rosenhan revisited: successful scientific fraud	0
The development of a creative work rehabilitation organisation	0
Do no harm in due process – a historical analysis of social determinates of institutionalization in the USA	0
Landmarks in the history of neurosyphilis: the neglected observations of Vincenzo Chiarugi	0
The ‘social’ in psychiatry and mental health: quantification, mental illness and society in international scientific networks (1920s–1950s)	0
Classic Text No. 136 ‘On the question of unitary psychosis’, by Harry Marcuse (1926)	0
This equivocal dust: a review of Material Cultures of Psychiatry, edited by M Ankele and B Majerus	0
Acknowledgements	0
A history of mental illness among women in the Straits Settlements in the nineteenth century	0
Book Review: Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea	0
On the origins of the concept of ‘latent schizophrenia’ in Russian psychiatry	0
Shock therapies in Spain (1939–1952) after the Civil War: Santa Isabel National Mental Asylum in Leganés	0
The Stirling County Study: a case study of interdisciplinarity and its effects on the history of psychiatric epidemiology	0
Psychiatric hospital, domestic strategies and gender issues in Tokyo, c. 1920–45	0
Shūzō Kure’s essay on psychotherapy including music in twentieth-century Japan (1916)	0
Classic Text No. 133: ‘Maxwell Jones and the Therapeutic Community’, by David Millard (1996)	0
Malaria therapy for general paralysis of the insane at the Sunbury Hospital for the Insane in Australia, 1925–6	0