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General
- Victorian Psychology: Introduction
- Recent Studies of Victorian Psychology and its Relation to Victorian Literature
- Glossary of Terms Used for Mental Illness, with Chronological Synopsis
- Theories of Mental Illness in the Nineteenth-century ‘Bedlam’ Asylum Era, 1815-1898
- Lewis Carroll and Nineteenth-Century Medical Psychology
- Alexander Brière de Boismont’s On Hallucinations (1845)
- Victorian controversy about temporary insanity
- Daniel McNaughton and "not guilty by reason of insanity"
- Mid-Victorian views of the physical causes of insanity
- Eneas Dallas's leading article on the report of the Scottish Lunacy Commission
Developmental and Child Psychology
Individuals
- Alexander Bain
- William James, Principles of Psychology (text at York University, Canada)
- Herbert Spencer
Sigmund Freud and Freudianism
- An Introduction
- Basic Jungian Concepts
- Archetypal Theories (needed)
Related Material
- Mesmerism, Ancient and Modern
- A Review of William Hughes's That Devil's Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Imagination
- Occultism, 1880-1900
- Phrenology
- Social Darwinism
- A Review of Gretchen Braun's Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders
Bibliography
- Victorian Literature and Victorian Psychology: Selected Readings
- Before Freud: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Writings about Psychology
- Classics in the History of Psychology (Canadian site)
Last modified 9 February 2024