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| International Archives of the History of Psychiatry | |
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| Title | International Archives of the History of Psychiatry |
| Discipline | History of psychiatry |
| Abbreviation | Int. Arch. Hist. Psychiatry |
International Archives of the History of Psychiatry is a peer‑reviewed academic journal dedicated to chronicling the historical development of psychiatric thought, institutions, and practice. It publishes research that connects archival materials, case narratives, and institutional records with broader intellectual, cultural, and political histories. The journal appears alongside other outlets concerned with the histories of medicine and science.
The journal emerged in a period shaped by debates around figures such as Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Emil Kraepelin, Jean-Martin Charcot, and Philippe Pinel, and was contemporaneous with institutional shifts exemplified by Bethlem Royal Hospital, Bellevue Hospital, Saint-Anne Hospital Center, Charenton Hospital, and Salpêtrière Hospital. Its founding was influenced by scholarship linked to Michel Foucault, Roy Porter, Siegfried Sassoon, Viktor Frankl, and Erving Goffman, and by conferences involving organizations such as the History of Medicine Society, the Wellcome Trust, the Royal Society of Medicine, the American Association for the History of Medicine, and the British Society for the History of Science. Early issues engaged archival collections from repositories like the Wellcome Library, the National Archives (United Kingdom), the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the State Historical Museum (Russia), and featured studies touching on episodes such as the Spanish Civil War, the Nazi euthanasia program, the Nuremberg Trials, and the World Health Organization's early policy work.
The journal's remit spans biographies of clinicians including Wilhelm Griesinger, Henry Maudsley, Thomas Willis, Franz Mesmer, John Conolly, Antoine Laurent Bayle, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, and Alois Alzheimer; institutional histories of asylums like Dixmont Hospital, Ticehurst House Hospital, St. Elizabeths Hospital, and Morningside Hospital; analyses of therapeutic modalities tied to names such as Insulin shock therapy, Electroconvulsive therapy, Psychoanalysis, Mesmerism, Hydrotherapy, and Occupational therapy; and intersections with movements and events including Eugenics Society, Deinstitutionalization, Community Mental Health Act (1963), Civil Rights Movement, and Second World War. It aims to publish work that situates case files, correspondence, and visual materials within broader narratives involving institutions like Kaiser Wilhelm Society, University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, and Cambridge University Press–level scholarship.
The editorial board typically includes historians and clinicians affiliated with institutions such as King's College London, University College London, Yale University, University of California, Los Angeles, Columbia University, McGill University, University of Toronto, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Sydney, and University of Tokyo. Editors have included scholars associated with prizes and bodies like the Sarton Medal, the George Sarton Centenary Medal, the Wellcome Medal, the Royal Historical Society, and the American Historical Association. Publishing partners and imprint arrangements have connected the journal to publishers comparable to Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, SAGE Publications, and Taylor & Francis. Production workflows reflect standards used by indexing services such as Scopus, Web of Science, and aggregators like JSTOR.
The journal is abstracted and indexed alongside periodicals covered by PubMed, Medline, EMBASE, Historical Abstracts, America: History and Life, ProQuest, and EBSCOhost. Library cataloging aligns with systems employed by the Library of Congress, the British Library, the National Library of Medicine (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the German National Library. Citation metrics are reported in contexts referenced by Journal Citation Reports, Scimago Journal Rank, and assessments used by Research Excellence Framework submissions.
Articles have addressed pivotal figures and events such as Philippe Pinel's reforms, contested diagnoses related to Franz Kafka, treatment controversies involving John Cade, institutional case studies from Bedlam, policy histories involving the National Health Service (United Kingdom), and transnational studies linking Soviet psychiatry debates to the Cold War. Contributions have examined archival troves including the papers of Antonin Artaud, clinical records tied to Dorothea Dix, photographic archives associated with Henry Tonks, and correspondence between Alois Alzheimer and Emil Kraepelin. The journal has published work engaging methods from historians such as Geoffrey C. Robinson, Andrew Scull, David Healy, Charles Rosenberg, and Sander L. Gilman, and has featured interdisciplinary pieces intersecting with scholarship from Pierre Janet, Karl Jaspers, Heinrich Neumann, Thomas Szasz, and R. D. Laing.
Scholarly reception has positioned the journal among outlets cited alongside History of Psychiatry (journal), Medical History, Social History of Medicine, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, and Isis (journal). It has informed debates within forums hosted by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the American Psychiatric Association, the World Psychiatric Association, and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Its influence extends into archival practice at institutions like the Wellcome Collection, the US National Archives and Records Administration, and university special collections at Princeton University, Yale University Library, and University of Pennsylvania.
Issues are held in research libraries including Wellcome Library, British Library, Library of Congress, Harvard Library, Bodleian Library, and National Diet Library (Japan), and are accessible through databases such as JSTOR, Project MUSE, EBSCOhost, and ProQuest where library subscriptions permit. Backfiles have been used in systematic reviews appearing in outlets like The Lancet Psychiatry and in digitization projects supported by the Wellcome Trust, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and national initiatives such as the European Research Council.
Category:Medical journals Category:History of psychiatry