WELLCOME INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE SEMINAR AND READING GROUP 1988-89 Classics in the History of Psychiatry Monday Seminar Room 4.45 pm CLASSIC FRENCH ALIENISM 10 October 1988 Phillipe Pinel, A Treatise on Insanity (1801; trans Davis) 24 October J.B.D. Esquirol, Mental Maladies: A treatise on insanity (combines essays on monomania from the 1820s and 1830s) EARLY 19th-CENTURY GERMAN PSYCHIATRY 7 November Ernst Feuchtersleben, The Principles of Medical Psychology (1845: trans. Lloyd in 1847) THREE MID-CENTURY MASTERWORKS 21 November B.A. Morel, Traité des Degenerescences physiques, intellectuelles, et morales de l'esp&ce humaine (1857: English trans. available) 5 December Wilhelm Griesinger, Mental Pathology and Therapeutics, 2nd ed. (1865: English trans. Robertson & Rutherford in 1867) 16 Jamary 1989 Henry Maudsley, The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind (1867) AN AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION 30 January George M. Beard, American Nervousness, its Causes and Consequences (1881: the concept of neurasthenia) EUROPEAN SEXOLOGY 13 February Richard von Krafft-Bbing, Psychopathia Sexualis (1886: trans. of Sth ed.) GERMAN PSYCHIATRY OF THE LATE 19th CENTURY 27 February Theodor Meynert, Psychiatry: A clinical treatise on diseases of the fore-brain based upon a study of its structure, functions, and nutrition (1884: trans. Sachs in 1885) 13 March Emil Kraepelin, Clinical Psychiatry: A textbook, 5th ed. (1896; the ideas of dementia praecox and manic- depressive psychosis) ENGLISH PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE IN THE LATE 19th CENTURY 1 May Daniel Hack Tuke, ed., A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine, 2 vols (1892, 1895) THE EMERGENCE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 15 May Sigmund Freud, The Intrepretation of Dreams (1900) thd Renake Hasr