Alzheimer's First Case. An English translation with autopsy findings.

Case Book Notes. Three cases from a nineteenth century casebook, the forerunner of the twentieth century chart. 

Masturbatory Insanity. A case revealing the vulnerability of clinical investigation to cultural bias.. 

Melampus. Ancient ideas about the etiology of madness and the doctor patient relationship.

Possession (Jeanne des Anges). A first person account of the experience of being possessed.
Hypnosis (James Braid). A case from the man who coined the term hypnosis, with instruction on technique.
Descartes Self-analysis. Descartes thoughts on how irrational preferences are created and overcome.
Love Sickness.

Hume's Letter to a Physician. "Applying" for psychiatric treatment, Hume describes years of suffering.
Abram Simmons. A newspaper account of a man kept in a Rhode Island 'dungeon' used by the reformer Dorthea Dix
A Magnetic Cure. The idea of animal magnetism inspired treatments involving an unusual doctor patient relationshiip..
Marie: A Case of Multiple Personality Reported by Pierre Janet

A Case from the York Retreat. The kind of case history that sold the idea of moral treatment.
S. Weir Mitchell's Rest Cure. The somatic treatment satirized in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Philippe Pinel: Case Histories. A number of my translations of case histories from both editions of Pinel's Treatise on Insanity.
General Paresis of the Insane. A common presentation of a type of case that made up 10% of 19th century asylum patients.