Peter Barham

Peter Barham’s most recent book, Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War, is out in paperback from Yale.

In the LRB Archive:

• Rubbing Shoulders with Unreason: Foucault's History of Madness · 8 March 2007

  • History of Madness by Michel Foucault, edited by Jean Khalfa, translated by Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa

• Unbosoming: Madness in the nineteenth century · 17 August 2006

  • Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England 1820-60 by Akihito Suzuki

• Elimination: Henry Cotton · 18 August 2005

  • Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull

• Two Ronnies · 4 July 1985

  • Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist by R.D. Laing

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