Book Review: Gabriel N Mendes, Under the Strain of Color: Harlems Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Doyle, D. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Book Review: Michel Guy Thompson (ed.), The Legacy of R.D. Laing: An Appraisal of his Contemporary Relevance
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Wall, O. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Book Review: David W Jones, Disordered Personalities and Crime: An Analysis of the History of Moral Insanity
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Callender, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Joseph Maxwell on mediumistic personifications
The study of mediumship received much impetus from the work of psychical researchers. This included ideas about the phenomena of personation, or changes in attitudes, dispositions and behaviours shown by some mediums that supposedly indicated discarnate action. The aim of this Classic Text is to reprint passages about this topic from the writings of French psychical researcher Joseph Maxwell (1858–1938), which were part of the contributions of some psychical researchers to reconceptualize the manifestations in psychological terms. Maxwell suggested these changes in mediums were a production of their subconscious mind...
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Alvarado, C. S. Tags: Classic Text No. 107 Source Type: research
Taphophobia and 'life preserving coffins in the nineteenth century
In 1891 the Italian psychiatrist Enrico Morselli (1852–1929) described taphophobia, defining it as an extreme condition of claustrophobia due to the fear of being buried alive. This rare psychopathological phenomenon reflects an ancient fear, and its origin is not known. Taphophobia is closely linked to the problem of apparent death and premature burial. In the nineteenth century, scientists and authors paid particular attention to the issue of apparent death, and special devices (safety coffins) were invented to ensure that premature burial was avoided. Nowadays taphophobia is quite a rare psychiatric disorder; diff...
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Cascella, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Max Schelers influence on Kurt Schneider
Kurt Schneider (1887–1967) met Max Scheler (1874–1928) in 1919 when he enrolled in the latter’s philosophy seminars at the University of Cologne. Kurt Schneider was then a junior psychiatrist and Max Scheler a renowned philosophy professor and co-founder of the phenomenological movement in philosophy. We uncover the facts about their intellectual and personal relationship, summarize the main articles and books that they wrote and consider whether Max Scheler did influence the young Kurt Schneider. We conclude that Scheler’s philosophy of emotion impressed Schneider, and that the latter’s notio...
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Cutting, J., Mouratidou, M., Fuchs, T., Owen, G. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The problem of sexual imbalance and techniques of the self in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
This article examines the problematization of sexual appetite and its imbalances in the development of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The dominant strands of historiographies of sexuality have focused on historicizing sexual object choice and understanding the emergence of sexual identities. This article emphasizes the need to contextualize these histories within a broader frame of historical interest in the problematization of sexual appetite. The first part highlights how sexual object choice, as a paradigm of sexual dysfunctions, progressively...
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Flore, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Graphology in German psychiatry (1870-1930)
This article discusses both the use of graphology in German psychiatry (1870–1930) and the use of handwriting in psychiatric experiments. The examination of handwriting was part of an ensemble of diagnostic tools. Although disorders of handwriting seemed to indicate psychic diseases, graphology did not seem the right method to produce valid observations. Nevertheless, psychiatrists began to incorporate the process of writing into research and diagnosis and to make the process of handwriting an experimental field. Emil Kraepelin invented an apparatus – the so-called Writing-Scale – with which he could meas...
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Schäfer, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Prohibited or regulated? LSD psychotherapy and the United States Food and Drug Administration
Over the 1950s and early 1960s, the use of the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to facilitate psychotherapy was a promising field of psychiatric research in the USA. However, during the 1960s, research began to decline, before coming to a complete halt in the mid-1970s. This has commonly been explained through the increase in prohibitive federal regulations during the 1960s that aimed to curb the growing recreational use of the drug. However, closely examining the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of LSD research in the 1960s will reveal that not only was LSD research never prohibited, but...
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Oram, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Memory as persona non grata in the work of Eugene Minkowski: a historical approach
Memory is both ubiquitous and persona non grata in the work of Eugène Minkowski. Despite the relevance of memory in the works of those who influenced him, in particular Bergson, Minkowski nonetheless repeatedly overlooked its importance in his writings. To the reader of his work this fact is as much evident as unaccounted for – both by prior research and by Minkowski himself. I shall try to prove that this disregard for memory was conditio sine qua non of Minkowski’s first synthesis of Bleuler and Bergson in a 1921 article, which resulted in his famous concept of loss of vital contact with reality and wh...
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Vaz, J. M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Insanity, belonging and citizenship: mentally ill people who went to and/or returned from Europe in the Late Ottoman Era
This article examines the practices of sending mentally-ill people to Europe and the repatriation of mentally-ill Ottoman subjects from European countries. (Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Artvinli, F. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Theory of mind and Verstehen (understanding) methodology
Theory of mind is a prominent, but highly controversial, field in psychology, psychiatry, and philosophy of mind. Simulation theory, theory-theory and other views have been presented in recent decades, none of which are monolithic. In this article, various views on theory of mind are reviewed, and methodological problems within each view are investigated. The relationship between simulation theory and Verstehen (understanding) methodology in traditional human sciences is an intriguing issue, although the latter is not a direct ancestor of the former. From that perspective, lessons for current clinical psychiatry are drawn....
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Kumazaki, T. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Dissertation Abstracts
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - May 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Research on the history of psychiatry Source Type: research
Book review: Mat Savelli and Sarah Marks (eds), Psychiatry in Communist Europe
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - May 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Vaiseta, T. Tags: Book reviews Source Type: research
Book review: Tommy Dickinson, 'Curing Queers: Mental Nurses and their Patients, 1935-74
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - May 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hide, L. Tags: Book reviews Source Type: research
