The 6-volume facsimile collection charts the history and development of psychiatry. The volumes take an international perspective, including writings in German, French, Italian as well as UK/US materials. A collection of British documents (or documents in English) would not adequately represent the history of the field, since the contribution of Great Britain, and indeed of the English-speaking world to the development of Western psychiatry and psychopathology has been rather limited. Shorter pieces have been translated by the editor and any longer pieces are printed with a short synopsis in English alongside.
Biography
German Berrios is Consultant Head of Neuropsychiatry, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Reader in the Epistemology of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Chairman, Research and Ethics Committee, University of Cambridge and Cambridge Health District and a Senior Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the British Psychological Society Editor of the History of Psychiatry journal.
Research areas: Neuropsychiatry and clinical, conceptual and historical aspects of psychopathology
