Publications:You are on Pierre-Henri Castel's homepage, where you can find information about recent developments in the philosophy of mind applied to the history and the epistemology of psychopathology. Pierre-Henri Castel is a Senior research fellow from the CNRS, working at the CERMES3/CESAMES, (Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité). He is also a psychoanalyst in private practice, a member of the International Lacanian Association
Publications:
My last book: A quoi résiste la psychanalyse? (PUF, Paris, 2006).
Last additions : Various
papers in relation to the new rules concerning psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
in France.
On-going events in history and philosophy of psychopathology:
next seminars, conferences and lectures dealing with the history and/or the
philosophy of psychopathology and psychoanalysis (mostly in France).
Book reviews for the Revue
d'histoire des sciences humaines, the Revue d'histoire des sciences and
other journals
On-line documents, including a commentary on Über
Psychoanalyse, by Freud, my précis of The Interpretation of
Dreams, by Freud and the Revised Chronology and
Bibliography of my Querelle de l'hystérie (PUF, 1998), with on-line
access to many texts: from 1870 to 1914, the main references on neuroses, in
medical sciences, sociology, literature, philosophy, along with the major institutional
events in European and American psychiatry. See also a
Chronology and Bibliography of Obsessional Neurosis/Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
and Related Troubles in the history of culture and medecine (from the origins
to 2007)
Links in philosophy of mind, psychopathology and psychiatry:
history and epistemology. Where can you find a rare French book?
What do I work on presently?: a choice of papers
on contemporary theories of transsexualism, in cultural anthropology, philosophy,
law and psychiatry. (Cross-)check my Chronology
and Bibliography of Transsexualism and Related Sex/Gender Identity Troubles
(1910-1998), including a lot of English-speaking material, a Working
Bibliography on Sexual Identity Troubles, and a synopsis
of
Genetic, Physiological or Anatomical Abnormalities
in Intersexuality, along with their
Psychological Counterparts. Also: a Chronology
and Bibliography of Psychoanalysis in France and Abroad (1980-2005), and
a Chronology and Bibliography of Psychology
(1980-2000).
Current
research on the history and philosophy of obsessive-compulsive disorder
On-line papers: on hypnosis, hysteria, dreams,
suggestion, Freud, the Traumdeutung and its interpretations, polemics
about the scientificity of psychoanalysis, sex and gender in psychiatry, depression,
cognitive psychiatry, with elaborate critics of Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Adolf
Grünbaum, Médard Boss and the phenomenology of dreams, and a special
emphasis on the analytic philosophy of mind.