Book Review: Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Susanna Niiranen (eds), Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe (Claire Trenery)
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - March 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Trenery, C. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
'Report of the Committee on Mediumistic Phenomena, by William James (1886): With an introduction by
Mediumship was a topic of great interest to some nineteenth-century students of mental phenomena. Together with the phenomena of hypnosis and other manifestations, mediumship was seen by many as a dissociative phenomenon. The purpose of this Classic Text is to present an excerpt of an article about the topic that William James (1842–1910) published in 1886 in the Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research about American medium Leonora E. Piper (1857–1950). The article, an indication of late nineteenth-century interactions between dissociation studies and psychical research, was the first report ...
Source: History of Psychiatry - March 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Alvarado, C. S. Tags: Classic Text No. 105 Source Type: research
Bipolar disorder and its outcomes: two cohorts, 1875-1924 and 1994-2007, compared
This study suggests that modern treatments may have decreased lengths of stay in hospital, but at a cost of contributing to more admissions. It also points to a shift in the threshold for admissions. (Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - March 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Atigari, O. V., Harris, M., Le Noury, J., Healy, D. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Pavel Ivanovich Karpov (1873-1932?) - the Russian Prinzhorn: art of the insane in Russia
The complicated relationship between the discipline of mental health and the arts has barely been studied systematically. Mental hospitals, shelters and prisons – institutions that accommodate the mentally ill – sometimes promote but often discourage and disrupt the patients’ artistic creativity and the images created. In psychiatric circles, the recognition of patient art was a long, slow and frustrating process. Among the Western psychiatrists who studied the creative activity of the mentally ill, researchers usually mention such names as C. Lombroso, M. Shearing, V. Morgentaller, H. Prinzhorn and other...
Source: History of Psychiatry - March 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lerner, V., Podolsky, G., Witztum, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Psychiatric care at a national mental institution during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39): Santa Isabel de Leganes
The scanty research available regarding the health of the mentally ill during the Spanish Civil War is largely due to the loss of most documents, and to the difficulty in accessing the existing archives for decades. Up to the present time, historiography has described overcrowded facilities for the mentally disturbed and the fact that old buildings such as convents and spas were turned into establishments for treating patients with mental problems during the Civil War. However, research reviewing the institutional life and conditions of psychiatric patients during this war is still rather scarce.
The aim of our article is ...
Source: History of Psychiatry - March 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Vazquez de la Torre, P., Villasante, O. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Psychiatric governance, völkisch corporatism, and the German Research Institute of Psychiatry in Munich (1912-26). Part 1
This is the first of two articles exploring in depth some of the early organizational strategies that were marshalled in efforts to found and develop the German Research Institute of Psychiatry (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie) in 1917. After briefly discussing plans for a German research institute before World War I, the article examines the political strategies and networks that Emil Kraepelin used to recruit support for the institute. It argues that his efforts at psychiatric governance can best be understood as a form of völkisch corporatism which sought to mobilize and coordinate a group of ...
Source: History of Psychiatry - March 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Engstrom, E. J., Burgmair, W., Weber, M. M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The nature of delusion: psychologically explicable? psychologically inexplicable? philosophically explicable? Part 2
The first part of this article dealt with the extant formulations of delusion, psychiatric and psychological, suggestions which, respectively, regard delusion as psychologically inexplicable or explicable. All this was subjected to critique. This second part puts forward informed philosophical thesis whereby delusion can be explained within the philosophical movement known as phenomenology and, in particular, Max Scheler’s version of this. (Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - March 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Cutting, J., Musalek, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Psychogeriatrics in England in the 1950s: greater knowledge with little impact on provision of services
In the 1950s, the population aged over 65 years continued to increase, and older people occupied mental hospital beds disproportionately. A few psychiatrists and geriatricians demonstrated what could be done to improve the wellbeing of mentally unwell older people, who were usually labelled as having irreversible ‘senile dementia’. Martin Roth demonstrated that ‘senile dementia’ comprised five different disorders, some of which were reversible. These findings challenged established teaching and were doubted by colleagues. Despite diagnostic improvements and therapeutic successes, clinical practice c...
Source: History of Psychiatry - March 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hilton, C. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Henri Ey's Etudes Psychiatriques, Traite des Hallucinations and La Conscience, 2nd edn: the history of the Spanish translations
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Source: History of Psychiatry - November 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Casarotti, H. Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research
Dissertation Abstracts
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Source: History of Psychiatry - November 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Research on the history of psychiatry Source Type: research
Book Review: Peter Zachar, Drozdstoj St. Stoyanov, Massimiliano Aragona and Assen Jablensky, Alternative Perspectives on Psychiatric Validation: DSM, ICD, RDoC, and Beyond
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Fellowes, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Book Review: Thomas R. Müller, Wahn und Sinn. Patienten, Ärzte, Personal und Institutionen der Psychiatrie in Sachsen vom Mittelalter bis zum Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tillack-Graf, A.-K. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Book Review: Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Americanization of Narcissism
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Millard, C. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Book Review: Susan Lamb, Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Richert, L. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Book Review: Leonard Smith, Insanity, Race and Colonialism: Managing Mental Disorder in the Post-Emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914
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Source: History of Psychiatry - November 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pringle, Y. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
