University of Cambridge

Graduate Student, Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Harvard University, History of Science

Thesis Title: Modernism and the Narratives of the Unconscious: A medical, intellectual, cultural and social history of "automatic writing" in France, 1870-1930

John Forrester

About

My research interests center around the social, cultural and intellectual history of modern medicine. In the summer of 2012, I plan on submitting my dissertation dealing with the creation of the "mind sciences" in 19th- and 20th-century France, particularly as they intersect with extra-medical fields such as spiritism and literature.

In the fall 2011 semester, I am a Teaching Fellow for the class "Madness and Medicine: Themes in the History of Psychiatry" at Harvard.

 
History of psychiatry
Isis
Journal of Modern History

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