Countway's Center for the History of Medicine
invites you to attend the third lecture of the Spring 2025
Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine

with Terry Bragg, MSLS, MA, Archivist, McLean Hospital

James Edward Deeds, Jr. (1908-1987) lived most of his life as a patient of State Hospital for the Insane No. 3 in Nevada, Missouri. Throughout, Deeds utilized hospital ledger paper and other printed forms to execute crayon and pencil drawings of people, places, and events. Untrained, Deeds's imaginative "outsider art" was the subject of the 2016 book, The Electric Pencil: Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3. by Harris Diamant and Richard Goodman.

Terry Bragg's research on mental health treatments used between 1930 and 1979 informed the 2023 Fenimore Art Museum exhibition, James Edward Deeds: Drawn from the Asylum, and serves to contextualize Deeds’s life and work.

1:00 P.M.—2:30 P.M. Eastern U.S. time
This is an online event. No RSVP required.
Please use the following Zoom link:
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94337617055?pwd=M0pqNEFZQXVzRXluQ0llalVBRjB0UT09
Passcode: 471501 Meeting ID 943 3761 7055

For more information, contact David G. Satin, MD, Colloquium Director

Co-sponsored by the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital, and the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Longwood Campus