This year, the Harvard University Division of Continuing Education, McLean Hospital and the Center for the History of Medicine, and the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine are presenting a series of four lectures about the history of psychiatry and medicine. The Colloquium offers the opportunity for practicing doctors, psychologists, historians, and the general public to explore historical perspectives on their fields and discuss current projects in the area as well as the possibilities of such perspectives in an informal atmosphere.
The first lecture in the series, “Freud, Reich, and Radical Politics: 1927-1933,” will be presented by retired Fairfield University professor Philip W. Bennett on September 14 at the Harvard Medical School. Future lectures will include “Going Crazy at Work: The History of Carbon Disulfide” and “From Attendants to Nurses: Philanthropy, Psychiatry and American Nursing 1940-1955.”
https://www.countway.harvard.edu/classes-events