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Diagnosis and Understanding

Adams, Mary Louise. “In Sickness and in Health: State Formation, Moral Regulation, and Early VD Initiatives in Ontario.” Journal of Canadian Studies 28:4 (Winter, 1993/94): 117- 131.

Anderson, Frank W. “Louis Riel’s Insanity Reconsidered.” Saskatchewan History 3 (1950): 104- 110.

Arnup, Katherine. “Raising the Dionne Quintuplets: Lessons for Modern Mothers.” Journal of Canadian Studies 29:4 (Winter 1994/95): 65-85.

Baehre, Rainer. “Victorian Psychiatry and Canadian Motherhood.” Canadian Women’s Studies 2 (1980): 44-46.  

Bassett, Anne S. “Genetics.” In Quentin Rae-Grant (ed.). Images in Psychiatry: Canada. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1996: 245-248. 

Bliss, Michael. ‘‘‘Pure Books on Avoided Subjects’: Pre-Freudian Sexual Ideas in Canada.” In S.E.D. Shortt (ed.). Medicine in Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1981: 255-283.

Boissonneault, Marcel. “Modication.” In Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz (eds.). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988: 225-227. 

Burnet, Jean R. “The Urban Community and Changing Moral Standards.” In Michiel Horn and Ronald Sabourin (eds.). Studies in Canadian Social History. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1974: 298-325. 

Burstow, Bonnie. “A History of Psychiatric Homophobia.” Phoenix Rising: The Voice of the Psychiatrized 8:3/4 (July, 1990): S38-S39.

Cellard, André. «Folie, norme et rôles sexuels au Québec dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle», Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française 47:2 (1993): 245-255. 

Chapman, Terry L. “Early Eugenics Movement in Western Canada.” Alberta History 25:4 (Autumn, 1977): 9-17.

Christie, Laird and Joel M. Halpern. “Temporal Constructs and Inuit Mental Health.” Social Science and Medicine 30:6 (1990): 739-749.

Clark, Daniel. “The Relationship of Mind and Body.” American Journal of Insanity 49:1 (July 1892): 1-25. 

Clark, Daniel. “Neurasthenia.” Canadian Practitioner 13:7 (July, 1888): 109-115. 

Clark, Daniel. “Heredity.” Canadian Methodist Magazine 19 (1884): 257-267. 

Clarke, C.K. “The Defective and Insane Immigrant.” Bulletin of the Ontario Hospitals for the Insane 1:2 (July, 1908): 3-22. 

Clarke, C.K. “The Detection of Mental Defect in School Children.” Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery 21:6 (June, 1907): 343-348. 

Clarke, C.K. “Dementia Praecox.” Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery 21:4 (April, 1907): 219-223. 

Clarke, C.K. “A Critical Study of the Case of Louis Riel.” Queen’s Quarterly 12 (1904-1905): 379-388; 13 (1905-1906): 14-26. 

Clarke, C.K. & Webster, J. “Notes of a Clinical Case: The Case of Wm. B. Moral Imbecility.” Bulletin of the Ontario Hospitals for the Insane 7:4 (July 1914): 207-231. 

Conley-Active, D. “What to Do About Boris.” In Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz (eds). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988: 41-43. 

Delage, Jocelyne. “[Fifty Years of Child Psychiatry in Quebec: From the School of La Jemmerais to the Chair of Child and Juvenile Psychiatry (author’s translation)].” Neuropsychiatrie de l’enfance et de l’adolescence 28:6 (June, 1980): 239-241. 

Delhi, Kari. “Fictions of the Scientific Imagination: Researching the Dionne Quintuplets.” Journal of Canadian Studies 29:4 (Winter, 1994/95): 86-110. 

Desjardins, Edouard et Charles Dumas. “Le complexe medical de Louis Riel.” L’Union Medicale du Canada 99 (1970): 1656-1661, 1870-1878. 

Dodd, Dianne. “Advice to Parents: The Blue Books, Helen MacMurchy, MD, and the Federal Department of Health, 1920-34.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 8:2 (1991): 203- 230. 

Eastwood, M. Robin, and Harold Merskey. “Dementia.” In Quentin Rae-Grant (ed.). Images in Psychiatry: Canada. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1996: 241-243.

 (Editorial) “Is Mental Illness a Crime?-Surely Not.” Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery 13:3 (March, 1903): 205-206. 

El-Guebaly, Nady.. “Addiction Psychiatry and Management of Substance Related Disorders.” In Quentin Rae-Grant (ed.). Images in Psychiatry: Canada. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, 1996: 67-77.

Everett, B. “Something is Happening: The Contemporary Consumer and Psychiatric Survivor Movement in Historical Context.” The Journal of Mind and Behaviour 15 (1994): 55-70.

Gleason, Mona. “Growing Up to be ‘Normal’: Psychology Constructs Proper Gender Roles in Post-World War II Canada, 1945-1960.” In Lori Chambers and Edgar-André Montigny (eds.). Family Matters: Papers in Post-Confederation Canadian Family History. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1998.

Gleason, Mona. “Psychology and the construction of the ‘normal’ family in postwar Canada, 1945-60.” The Canadian Historical Review 78:3 (1997): 442-477. 

Goldberg, Benjamin. “Developmental Disabilities.” In Quentin Rae-Grant (ed.). Images in Psychiatry: Canada. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, 1996: 39-43. 

Goldbloom, David S. “The Early Canadian History of Anorexia Nervosa.” Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 42:2 (March, 1997): 163-167.

Greenland, Cyril. “Canadian Pioneers in Mental Retardation.” Rehabilitation in Canada 17 (1967-68): 3-6.

Greenland, Cyril. “L’Affaire Shortis and the Valleyfield Murders.” Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal 7 (1962): 261-271.

Harvey, Fernand et Samuel Rodrigue. Matériel pour une sociologie des maladies mentales au Québec. No15, Cahiers de l’ISSH, Université Laval, Québec, 1974, coll. 

Kelm, Mary-Ellen. “Women, Families, and the Provincial Hospital for the Insane, British Columbia, 1905-1915.” Journal of Family History 19:2 (1994): 177-194. 

Kendall, Kathleen A. “Mental Illness – Tales of Madness: From the Asylum to ‘Oprah,’” In Bernard Schissel and Linda Mahood (eds.). Social Control in Canada: Issues in the Social Construction of Deviance. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1996. 

Kendall, Kathleen A. ‘Psy-ence fiction: Inventing the Mentally Disordered Female Prisoner.” In Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Margaret Shaw (eds.). An Ideal Prison? Critical Essays on Women’s Imprisonment in Canada. Halifax: Fernwood, 2000.

Keshen, Jeffrey. “Wartime Jitters over Juveniles: Canada’s Delinquency Scare and Its Consequences.” In Jeffrey Keshen (ed.). Age of Contention: Readings in Canadian Social History, 1900-1945. Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada, 1997.

MacLennan, David. “Beyond the Asylum: Professionalization and the Mental Hygiene Movement in Canada, 1914-28.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 4:1 (1987): 7-24.

Malleck, Daniel. “‘A state bordering on insanity?’: Identifying Drug Addiction in Nineteenth- Century Canadian Asylums.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 16 (1999): 247-269.

Malleck, Daniel. “‘Its baneful influences are too well known’: Debates over Drug Use in Canada, 1867-1908.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 14 (1997): 263-288.

Markson, E.R., Cyril Greenland and R.E. Turner. “The Life and Death of Louis Riel: A Study in Forensic Psychiatry.” Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal 10 (October, 1965): 246-264. (3 part article).

Martin, D.F. “The Mental Hygiene Movement in Canada.” The Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery 63 (1928): 167-173.

Maynard, Stephen. “On the Case of the Case: The Emergence of the Homosexual as a Case History in Early Twentieth Century Canada.” In Franca Iacovetta and Wendy Mitchinson (eds.). On the Case: Explorations in Social History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998: 65-87.

Maynard, Stephen. ‘‘‘Horrible Temptations’: Sex, Men, and Working-Class Male Youth in Urban Ontario, 1890-1935.” Canadian Historical Review 78:2 (June, 1997): 191-235. 

McLaren, Angus. “The Creation of a Haven for ‘Human Thoroughbreds’: The Sterilization of the Feeble-Minded and the Mentally III in British Columbia.” Canadian Historical Review 67:2 (June, 1986): 127-150. 

McPherson, Cathy. “Violence Against Women with Disabilities.” Canadian Woman Studies 11:4 (Summer, 1991): 49-50. 

Menzies, Robert. “Historical Profiles of Criminal Insanity.” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 25 (2002): 379-404.  

Menzies, Robert. “‘Unfit’ Citizens and the B.C. Royal Commission on Mental Hygiene, 1925- 28.” In Robert Adamoski, Dorothy E. Chunn and Robert Menzies (eds.). Contesting Canadian Citizenship: Historical Readings. Peterborough ON: Broadview Press, 2002. 

Menzies, Robert. “The making of Criminal Insanity in British Columbia: Granby Farrant and the Provincial Mental Home, Colquitz, 1919-1933.” In John McLaren and Hamar Foster (eds.). Essays on the History of Canadian Law: Volume VI. British Columbia and the Yukon. Toronto: Osgoode Society and the University of Toronto Press, 1995. 

Miron, Janet. “‘Open to the Public’: Touring Ontario Asylums in the Nineteenth Century.” In James E. Moran and David Wright (eds.). Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives. Montréal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006. 

Mitchinson, Wendy. “Gender and Insanity as Characteristics of the Insane: A Nineteenth- Century Case.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 4 (1987): 99-117. 

Mitchinson, Wendy. “Hysteria and Insanity in Women: A Nineteenth-Century Canadian Perspective.” Journal of Canadian Studies 21:3 (1986): 87-105.

Mitchinson, Wendy. “Medical Perceptions of Female Sexuality: A Late Nineteenth Century Case.” Scientia Canadensis 9:1 (June, 1985): 67-81.

Mitchinson, Wendy. “A Medical Debate in Nineteenth-Century English Canada: Ovariotomies.” Histoire Sociale/Social History 17 (May, 1984): 133-147.

Mitchinson, Wendy. “Reasons for Committal to a Mid-Nineteenth Century Ontario Insane Asylum: The Case of Toronto.” In Wendy Mitchinson and Janice Dickin McGinnis (eds.). Essays in the History of Canadian Medicine. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988.

Moran, James E. “The Signal and the Noise: The Historical Epidemiology of Insanity in Ante- Bellum New Jersey.” History of Psychiatry 14:3 (September, 2003): 281-301.

Mundie, Gordon S. “The Problem of the Mentally Defective in the Province of Quebec.” Canadian Medical Association Journal 10 (1920): 63-69.

Myers, Tamara. “The Voluntary Delinquent: Parents, Daughters, and the Montreal Juvenile Delinquents’ Court in 1918.” Canadian Historical Review 80:2 (June, 1999): 242-268.

Myers, Tamara. “Qui t’a Debauchee? Family Adolescent Sexuality and the Juvenile Delinquent’s Court in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal.” In Lori Chambers and Edgar- André Montigny (eds.). Family Matters: Papers in Post-Confederation Canadian Family History. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1998: 376-394.  

Pâquet, Martin. “‘Diminuer le danger par de bons règlemens intérieurs’: État colonial et contrôle médical des migrations au Bas-Canada et au Canada-Uni, 1795-1854.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine 16:2 (1999): 271-291.

Nootens, Thierry. “‘For Years We Have Never Had a Happy Home”: Madness and Families in Nineteenth-Century Montreal.” In James E. Moran and David Wright (eds.). Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives. Montréal-Kingston: McGill- Queen’s University Press, 2006.

Northway, Mary L. “Child Study in Canada: A Casual History.” In Lois M. Brockman, John H. Whitely and John P. Zubek. (eds.). Child Development: Selected Readings. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973: 11-46. 

Park, Deborah C. and John P. Radford. “Space, Place and the Asylum: An Introduction.” Health and Place 3:2 (June, 1997): 71-72.

Perr, Irwin N. “Religion, Political Leadership, Charisma and Mental Illness: The Strange Story of Louis Riel.” Journal of Forensic Sciences 37:2 (March, 1992): 574-584.

Reaume, Geoffrey. “Lunatic to Patient to Person: Nomenclature in Psychiatric History and the Influence of Patients’ Activism in North America.” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 25 (July-August, 2002): 405-426.

Reaume, Geoffrey. “Keep your labels off my mind! or “Now I am going to pretend I am craze but don’t Be a bit alarmed!’: Psychiatric History from the Patients’ Perspectives.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 11 (1994): 397-424. 

Reaume, Geoffrey. “No Profits, Just a Pittance: Work, Compensation and People Defined as Mentally Disabled in Ontario, 1964-1990.” In Steven Noll and James W. Trent (eds.). Mental Retardation in America. New York: NYU Press, 2004.

Ross, George W. “A Test for the Diagnosis of General Paralysis of the Insane.” Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery 27:4 (May 1910): 297-303.

Seeman, Mary V. “Schizophrenia.” In Quentin Rae-Grant (ed.). Images in Psychiatry: Canada. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, 1996: 223-227.

Smith, Dorothy E. “The Statistics on Mental Illness: (What They Will Not Tell Us About Women and Why).” In Dorothy E. Smith and Sara J. David (eds.). Women Look at Psychiatry. Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1975: 73-119.

Stafford, Ezra H. “Some Clinical Aspects of Mental Disease.” Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery 1:4 (April, 1897): 157-162.

Sutherland, Neil. “‘To Create a Strong and Healthy Race: School Children in the Public Health Movement, 1880-1914.” In S.E.D. Shortt (ed.). Medicine in Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1981: 361-393.

Willer, Barry and Gary Miller. “Classification, Cause and Symptoms of Mental Illness: 1890- 1900 in Ontario.” Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal 22:5 (August, 1977): 231- 235.

Willer, Barry and Gary Miller. “Prognosis and Outcome of Mental Illness: 1890-1900 in Ontario.” Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal 22:5 (August, 1977): 235-238.

Workman, Joseph. “Moral Insanity: What Is It?” American Journal of Insanity 39:43 (January, 1883): 334-348.