Guides: HIST 457 History of Psychiatry : Primary resources

Article indexes

IndexCat (Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office)
Catalogue and index with records for journal articles, books, pamphlets, reports, dissertations and portraits, good source to locate primary source material. Coverage through 1950.

MEDLINE(R) (OVID) ALL, 1946-
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Major index of journal articles in medicine and related fields from the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). Some material going back to before 1950.
PsycINFO 1806-Ovid
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Professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines. Includes material dating from 1806, good source for finding historical journal articles.
Readers' Guide Retrospective:1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
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Online version of The Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, an index to popular American periodicals. Material from 1890 to 1982.
Canadiana
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Contains digitzed rare books, periodicals, and government publications from Canada from the 1600s through the 1940s, including The Montreal Medical Journal and others. Search the "Health and Medicine" collection.

American Journal of Psychiatry
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1844-present. Originally The American Journal of Insanity.
American Periodicals Serials Online, 1740-1900
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Full text of US professional/trade journals and popular magazines such as Harper's Bazaar (1867-1912) and The Ladies' Home Journal (1889-1907).
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
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1883-present.
The Lancet
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1823-present. Premier British medical journal.
The New England Journal of Medicine
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1823-present. Online holdings go back to 1812.

PubMed Central has a number of digitized nineteenth and twentieth century medical journals, including The British Medical Journal.

Internet Archive
Freely available digitized out-of-copyright books, journals and other material. This is a good resource for locating historical books (primary material). This site cannot perform full-text searches across all material. You have to open a specific book or other item and then do a full-text search only on that item.
Medical Heritage Library
This is a subset of the Internet Archive of selected historical medical material. The difference between this site and the Internet Archive is that the MHL lets you do full text searching across all the digitised content. This is a good resource for locating historical medical information embedded into more general primary historical works.

Archives Unbound (Gale)
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Archives Unbound contains collections of archival documents from the Middle Ages to the present, from around the world, including such sub-sections as Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies.
Wiley Digital Archives (Wiley)
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The Wiley Digital Archives: Royal College of Physicians collection brings relevant, rare and unique historical materials to researchers, students and educators across a variety of interdisciplinary fields and departments. The archive reflects the history and development of modern Western medicine, while documenting the interactions of the medical community between religious sects, monarchies, political systems and the general public.
AM Explorer (Adam Matthew)
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This portal allows you to search all Adam Matthew databases held at McGill. For instance: Everyday Life and Women in America; Gender Identity and Social Change; Medical Services and Warfare; Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900; Race Relations in America; Sex and Sexuality; Victorian Popular Culture.

Internet Archive - Moving Image Archive
Collection of free online films, including public health films. The subset of the Prelinger Archives is particularly useful.
National Film Board of Canada
Catalogue of films made by the National Film Board, including Canadian government films. Can search by categories "Health and Medicine" and "Psychology and Psychiatry."
Alexander Street Counseling
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Online collection of videos for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.

Images from the History of Medicine
Nearly 60,000 digitzed images from the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine.
Wellcome Images
Includes over 160,000 historical and contemporary digitized images. Narrow down to historical images in advanced search.

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts
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Database of 2,000+ transcripts of counseling and therapy sessions and 44,000 pages of first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and treatment. Also includes secondary reference works material.

Resources on the History of Psychiatry
Great guide to the history of psychiatry holdings at the NLM.
History of American Psychiatry: A Teaching and Research Guide
Pamphlet available in the Osler Library.