Psychiatry – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas

Dementia in the Ancient World: Environment, Aging, and Cognitive Decline

Matthew McIntosh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:02:00 +0000

Severe dementia appears strikingly rare in ancient sources, raising questions about how aging, environment, and medical understanding shaped

Matthew McIntosh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:01:00 +0000

Schizophrenia has long existed in human experience, but its meaning has shifted across time, from divine madness to

Matthew McIntosh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Blaming behavior we don’t like on a disease means less accountability, and is bad for those who live

Matthew McIntosh — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:46:14 +0000

Examining philosophical and conceptual foundations set by philosophy in Classical Greece. Abstract The object of study of Psychiatry

Matthew McIntosh — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 13:58:34 +0000

Those who undergo a traumatic incident in their life will know how difficult it is to cope with

Matthew McIntosh — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 18:31:51 +0000

The story of a flamboyant doctor whose famous fans included Dickens. But his experiments with hypnosis eventually met with

Matthew McIntosh — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 18:49:29 +0000

In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. Czech psychiatrist Kurt Freund found that it

Matthew McIntosh — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:45:53 +0000

From the Guild-Book of the Barber-Surgeons of the city of York / British Library, Public Domain Medicine and

Matthew McIntosh — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 17:48:26 +0000

John W. Waterhouse, “A Mother Bringing Her Sick Child to the Temple of Asklepios”, 1877 (Image in public

Matthew McIntosh — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 17:37:24 +0000

William W Sargant, 1948. Wellcome Library reference: PP/WWS/A/19. Mike Jay delves into the personal papers of one of the