Call for papers - /History of Psychiatry/

Special Issue: ‘A Hundred Years of Evolutionary Psychiatry (1872–1972)’

Guest editors: Pieter R. Adriaens & Andreas De Block

To be published in early 2010, in the journal /History of Psychiatry/, this
Special Issue seeks to explore the history of evolutionary accounts of mental
disorders. For convenience, it will focus on the period 1872–1972 marked by the
publication of Darwin’s /The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals/ and
Tinbergen’s /Early Childhood Autism – An Ethological Approach/, respectively.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to: the correspondence between
Darwin and Sir James Crichton-Browne; the phylogenetic speculations of Freud and
other psychoanalysts (e.g., Imre Hermann, Sandor Ferenczi and Carl Gustav Jung);
John Bowlby’s attachment theory; postwar evolutionary attempts to make sense of
the persistence of mental disorders (including the 1964 /Nature/ paper on
schizophrenia, written by Julian Huxley, Ernst Mayr, Abraham Hoffer and Humphry
Osmond); and Tinbergen’s theories on childhood autism. Contributions on other
‘evolutionary psychiatrists’ – such as Paul Broca, Wilhelm Fliess, Havelock
Ellis, Gilbert Hamilton, Harry Harlow and Paul D. Maclean – are also welcome.

Papers should be historical in nature. Scholars are invited to send a 500-word
proposal to Pieter R. Adriaens at Pieter.Adriaens@hiw.kuleuven.be by 1 November
2008. Final contributions should not exceed 7500 words inclusive of notes and
references.

The deadline for final submissions is 1 April 2009.

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