What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease’

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Updated 31 March 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease’

Translated by R. F. C. Hull

The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease presents some of Jung’s most important writings on psychiatry, including “On the Psychology of Dementia Praecox,” his landmark early study of what is today called schizophrenia.

Also featured here are nine other key papers in psychiatry, the earliest being “The Content of the Psychoses,” written in 1908, when Jung was a leading member of the early psychoanalytic movement. 


What We Are Reading Today: Nationalism: A World History by Eric Storm

Updated 23 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: Nationalism: A World History by Eric Storm

The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity.

In “Nationalism,” historian Eric Storm sheds light on contemporary nationalist movements by exploring the global evolution of nationalism, beginning with the rise of the nation-state in the 18th century through the revival of nationalist ideas in the present day.