Facets

1877 CE

#4799

A case of general paralysis at the age of sixteen.

Clouston, eminent English psychiatrist, was the first definitely to recognize the relationship between paresis and congenital syphilis and to report a case. This paper is also of interest as being the only recorded ca…

1852 CE

#12047

A curious dance round a curious tree.

Dickens' account of his visit on the day after Christmas, 1851 to the wards at St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, founded in 1751 to provide free care to the impoverished and incurable mentally ill. "The inhabitants of…

1937 CE–1938 CE

#1310

A review of the Golgi apparatus.

1863 CE

#6615.1

A study of Hamlet.

The first psychiatric study of Hamlet. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2009 CE

#9120

Asylum: Inside the closed world of state mental hospitals. Photographs by Christopher Payne. With an essay by Oliver Sacks.

1892 CE–1896 CE

#10621

Atlas of clinical medicine. 3 vols.

Published at the end of the 19th century, and employing the wide variety of illustration technologies then available, including color lithography, lithography, and photography, this work testifies to the breadth and d…

1973 CE

#9131

Awakenings.

Revised editions, 1976 and 1991. "It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at…

1931 CE

#11250

Bibliographia Burtoniana: A study of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, with a bibliography of Burton's Writings

1906 CE

#7340

Cerebra simiarum illustrata. Das Affenhirn in bildlicher Darstellung.

Describes and illustrates with photographs the cerebral cortex of over 50 species of primate, including prosimians, monkeys, and apes..

1980 CE

#366.1

Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection…at Windsor Castle. Edited by K.D. Keele and C. Pedretti. 3 vols.

Splendid edition reproducing all of the drawings in color, and with the original chronology and integrity of the drawings restored. Text provides transliteration of Leonardo’s notes in the original Italian plus …

1541 CE

#373.1

Des aller fürtrefflichsten…erschaffen. Das is des menchen…warhafftige beschreibung oder Anatomi…

This plagiarism of Vesalius’s Tabulae anatomicae sex contains 25 woodcuts by Hans Baldung Grien (1484/1485-1545), and represents the artist’s only contribution to medical illustration. The woodcuts include…

1988 CE

#8066

Disease and representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS.

1910 CE

#6608.1

Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci.

The first psychoanalytic investigation in art.

1821 CE

#9700

Icones cerebri simiarum et quorundam mammalium rariorum.

"Although a few more reports were published furing the next hundred years [after Tyson] it was Tiedemann alone who gave a more detailed account, on monkeys, in his... Icones Simiarum.... In monkeys he found the brain …

2004 CE

#8068

Invention of hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière.

See No. 4558.1

2015 CE

#10424

L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des lumières (1670–1820).

Translated into English as On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 and 1820 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).

1888 CE

#344

Mémoires sur le cerveau de l’homme et des primates publiés avec un introduction et des notes par Le docteur S. Pozzi.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

2018 CE

#11089

Mental illness in ancient medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina. Edited by Chiara Thumiger and Peter Singer.

2007 CE

#9132

Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain.

In a review for The Washington Post, Peter D. Kramer wrote, "In Musicophilia, Sacks turns to the intersection of music and neurology -- music as affliction and music as treatment." Kramer wrote, "Lacking the dynamic t…

1825 CE

#10744

Outlines of lectures on mental diseases.

Of particular note for the greatly expanded second edition published in 1826. That edition contained 150 pages compared to 72 pages in the first edition. The second edition also contained 13 plates derived from images…

1963 CE

#5019.4

Psychoanalysis, psychology and literature: A bibliography.

Contains 4,460 references.

1952 CE

#9738

Psychoanalytic explorations in art.

Kris trained as an art historian before becoming a psychoanalyst.

2014 CE

#8067

Seeing the insane: A visually and cultural history of our attitudes toward the mentally ill.

1971 CE

#7159

The anatomy of the nervous system of Octopus vulgaris.

2017 CE

#8867

The beautiful brain: The drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Edited with commentaries by Eric A. Newman, Alfonso Araque, and Janet M. Dubinsky. Essays by Larry W. Swanson, Lyndel King, and Eric Himmel.

A spectacular volume reproducing Ramón y Cajal's drawings in very high quality, and with significant commentaries.

1928 CE

#350

The brain from ape to man: A contribution to the study of the evolution and development of the human brain by Frederick Tilney. With chapters on the reconstruction of the gray matter in the primate brain stem by Henry Alsop Riley. 2 vols.

Classic study of the evolution of the central nervous system in the higher mammals. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1989 CE

#9733

The discovery of the art of the insane.

"This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes in attitudes toward the art of the mentally ill from a time when it was either ignored or ridiculed, through the era when major fi…

1936 CE

#9304

The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache: A. the use of plants for food, beverages and narcotics. Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 3. Biological series (Vol. 4, No. 5); Bulletin, University of New Mexico, whole, (No. 297).

2010 CE

#9397

The illustrated Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. Edited with an introduction and essays by Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason.

Reprints selected portions of the 1913 A. A. Brill translation together essays by Masson and excerpts from Jung, Lacan, and Horney. Includes many full page or double-page color reproductions of works by modernist and …

1919 CE

#10741

The journal of a disappointed man. With an introduction by H. G. Wells.

Published under the pseudonym, Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion. "Cummings' life changed forever when he was called to enlist in the British Army to fight in World War I in November 1915. He had consulted his doctor bef…

1985 CE

#9133

The man who mistook his wife of a hat and other clinical tales.

Describes the case histories of some of Sacks's patients. The title comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia.[1] The book "became the basis of an opera of the same name by Michael Nyman, which premiered …

2006 CE

#11650

The neurologic content of S. Weir Mitchell’s fiction.

Digital facsimile from semanticscholar.org at this link.

1910 CE

#9992

The Oedipus-complex as an explanation of Hamlet's mystery: A study in motive.

Jones developed this thesis based on Freud's comments on the play, as expressed to Wilhelm Fliess in 1897,[2] before Freud published the ideas in Chapter V of The Interpretation of Dreams (1900). Jones later developed…

1938 CE

#1451

The primate thalamus.

1943 CE

#11259

The psychiatric novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes

A classically trained Freudian psychoanalyst reviewed the psychiatric insights - advanced for his time - that Holmes expressed in his novels.

1951 CE

#7348

The study of instinct.

Foundation of ethology, the scientific study of animal behavior. "It was based on a series of six lectures at Columbia University in 1947 and presented a general model of animal behavior. Basically, it was about metho…