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Teaching ‘small and helpless’ women how to live: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy in Sweden, ca 1995–2005 (2018)
Journal Article
Jansson, Å. (2018). Teaching ‘small and helpless’ women how to live: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy in Sweden, ca 1995–2005. History of the Human Sciences, 31(4), 131-157. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695118773936

In 1995, a Swedish pilot study of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) was launched to investigate its therapeutic efficacy and cost-effectiveness as treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in suicidal women. In the same year, a sweeping r... Read More about Teaching ‘small and helpless’ women how to live: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy in Sweden, ca 1995–2005.

From Statistics to Diagnostics: Medical Certificates, Melancholia, and "Suicidal Propensities" in Victorian Psychiatry (2013)
Journal Article
Jansson, Å. (2013). From Statistics to Diagnostics: Medical Certificates, Melancholia, and "Suicidal Propensities" in Victorian Psychiatry. Journal of Social History, 46(3), 716-731. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shs120

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the view that “[e]very case of melancholia should be looked upon as having a suicidal tendency” dominated among British asylum physicians. However, a generation earlier medical texts on melancholia contai... Read More about From Statistics to Diagnostics: Medical Certificates, Melancholia, and "Suicidal Propensities" in Victorian Psychiatry.

Mood Disorders and the Brain: Depression, Melancholia, and the Historiography of Psychiatry (2011)
Journal Article
Jansson, Å. (2011). Mood Disorders and the Brain: Depression, Melancholia, and the Historiography of Psychiatry. Medical History, 55(3), 393-399. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025727300005469

Despite the increasingly widespread availability of psychotropics believed to restore biochemical equilibrium in the brains of persons diagnosed with mood disorders, the number of people suffering from such medical conditions appears to be increasing... Read More about Mood Disorders and the Brain: Depression, Melancholia, and the Historiography of Psychiatry.