Victorian Sciences of Mind (original) (raw)

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General

• Victorian Psychology: Introduction
• Recent Studies of Victorian Psychology and its Relation to Victorian Literature
• Glossary of Terms Used for Mental Illness, with Chronological Synopsis
• Theories of Mental Illness in the Nineteenth-century "Bedlam" Asylum Era, 1815-1898
• The Royal Bethlehem Hospital, or "Bedlam"
• Lewis Carroll and Nineteenth-Century Medical Psychology
• Alexander Brière de Boismont’s On Hallucinations (1845)
• Victorian controversy about temporary insanity
• Daniel McNaughton and "not guilty by reason of insanity"
• Mid-Victorian views of the physical causes of insanity
• Eneas Dallas's leading article on the report of the Scottish Lunacy Commission
• Amy Milne-Smith's Out of His Mind: Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain (review)
• The Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum

Developmental and Child Psychology

• Child Study in the Nineteenth Century

Individuals

• Alexander Bain
• William James, Principles of Psychology (text at York University, Canada)
• Herbert Spencer

Sigmund Freud and Freudianism

• An Introduction
• Basic Jungian Concepts
• Archetypal Theories (needed)

Related Material

• Mesmerism, Ancient and Modern
• A Review of William Hughes's That Devil's Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Imagination
• Occultism, 1880-1900
• Phrenology
• Social Darwinism
• A Review of Gretchen Braun'sNarrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders
• Bad or Mad? A Speculative Interpretation of Scrooge’s Mental Illness

Bibliography

• Victorian Literature and Victorian Psychology: Selected Readings
• Before Freud: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Writings about Psychology
• Classics in the History of Psychology (Canadian site)

Victorian Web Science

Last modified 28 June 2024