Book Review: Enric Novella, La ciencia del alma. Locura y modernidad en la cultura espanola del siglo XIX
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Source: History of Psychiatry - November 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Huertas, R. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Book Review: Catherine Cox, Negotiating Insanity in the Southeast of Ireland, 1820-1900
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Source: History of Psychiatry - November 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Baur, N. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Forbes Winslow and his Journal: With an introduction by
During the 19th century, there were few periodicals dedicated to the inchoate discipline of alienism (now called ‘psychiatry’). Given the newness of alienism and the idiosyncratic structure of the British publishing industry at the time, for a private individual to start a new specialized journal was a major enterprise. Against all odds, Forbes Winslow managed to publish his journal from 1848 to 1860, and during this period the scholarly nature of his publication could not be matched by the Asylum Journal, the official publication of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane.
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Source: History of Psychiatry - November 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Berrios, G. Tags: Classic Text No. 96 Source Type: research
Spiritist delusions and spiritism in the nosography of French psychiatry (1850-1950)
At the turn of the twentieth century there was a wave of delusions which had a direct link to spiritism in their form and content. These so-called spiritist or mediumistic delusions were the object of detailed study, and clinicians assigned them a place in nosography, especially in France. This work of classification was carried out as a function of the convictions and paradoxes that these delusions aroused; it also made it possible to question the relationship between pathology and belief. It is therefore important to emphasize certain ideological views of psychiatry on para-normality. We observed both a reductionist disc...
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Le Malefan, P., Evrard, R., Alvarado, C. S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Richard Arwed Pfeifer - a pioneer of 'medical pedagogy' and an opponent of Paul Schroder
Richard Arwed Pfeifer (1877–1957) was one of the initiators and foster fathers of the renowned child-psychiatric and special needs education workgroup at Leipzig University under Paul Schröder (1873–1941) in the 1920s and 1930s. This paper is an account of their dispute concerning the interrelations between child and adolescent psychiatry and special needs education, as well as their disagreement about whether adolescent psychopaths should be admitted to specialized child psychiatric wards or elsewhere. Moreover, Pfeifer questioned the practical relevance of the separation of constitutional and environment...
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Steinberg, H., Carius, D., Himmerich, H. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Autism in flux: a history of the concept from Leo Kanner to DSM-5
In this paper, I argue that a new relation between past and present – a supposed historical continuity in the meaning of autism – is created by the histories written by the discipline itself. In histories of autism written by ‘practitioner-historians’, a sense of scientific progress and an essentialist understanding of autism legitimize and reinforce current understandings and research directions in the field of autism. Conceptual discontinuities and earlier complexities and disputes concerning classifying and delineating autism are usually left out of the positivist narrative of autism. In an alter...
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Verhoeff, B. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The relevance of the early history of probability theory to current risk assessment practices in mental health care
Probability theory is at the base of modern concepts of risk assessment in mental health. The aim of the current paper is to review the key developments in the early history of probability theory in order to enrich our understanding of current risk assessment practices. (Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Large, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Neopositivism and the DSM psychiatric classification. An epistemological history. Part 2: Historical pathways, epistemological developments and present-day needs
In conclusion, diagnosing is based on the hermeneutical co-construction of mental symptoms. The failure of the neopositivist programme suggests that it is time to reconcile scientific formalization and semiotic activity. (Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Aragona, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Through the lens of the hospital magazine: Downshire and Holywell psychiatric hospitals in the 1960s and 1970s
An exploration of the pages of two psychiatric hospital magazines, Speedwell from Holywell Hospital, Antrim, and The Sketch from Downshire Hospital, Downpatrick, reveals the activity-filled lives of patients and staff during the 1960s and 1970s. This was a time of great change in mental health care. It was also a time of political turbulence in Northern Ireland. With large in-patient populations, both hospitals had a range of occupational and sporting activities available to patients and staff. The magazines formed part of the effort to promote the ethos of a therapeutic community. While hospital magazines may be viewed as...
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Prior, P., McClelland, G. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55): a bicentennial pathographical review
Researchers in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, medicine and theology have made exhaustive efforts to shed light on the elusive biography/pathography of the great Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55). This ‘bicentennial’ article reviews his main pathographical diagnoses of, respectively, possible manic-depressive [bipolar] disease, epilepsy, complex partial seizure disorder, Landry-Guillain-Barré’s acute ascending paralysis, acute intermittent porphyria with possible psychiatric manifestations, and syphilidophobia. (Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Schioldann, J., Sogaard, I. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Otto M. Marx, 1929-2012
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Source: History of Psychiatry - August 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Obituary Source Type: research
Research on the history of psychiatry: Dissertation Abstracts, 2010-11 (Part 2)
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Source: History of Psychiatry - August 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Research on the history of psychiatry Source Type: research
Book Review: Anne Borsay and Pamela Dales (eds), Disabled Children: Contested Caring, 1850-1979
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Source: History of Psychiatry - August 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hutchison, I. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Book Review: Naoko Wake, Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism
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Source: History of Psychiatry - August 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Cocks, H. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
'Pauper Lunatics and their Treatment', by Joshua Harrison Stallard (1870)
Little is known of Joshua Harrison Stallard other than that he was a provincial medical practitioner who moved to London and campaigned for improvement in metropolitan workhouses. In the pamphlet reproduced here, Stallard draws attention to the build-up of lunatics in workhouses due to lack of asylum beds. He also argues for the increased use of home care for lunatics instead of continually expanding asylum provision, and points to the need for training of asylum doctors. (Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - August 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Miller, E. Tags: Classic Text No. 95 Source Type: research
