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A quarterly journal, (March, June, etc.) publishing research articles, analysis and information across the entire field of history of mental illness and the forms of medicine, psychiatry, cultural response and social policy which have evolved to understand and treat it. It covers all periods of history up to the present day, and all nations and cultures. An important feature is the publication (and translation into English where necessary) of classic texts in in psychiatric history. Most issues carry book reviews.