Langues et histoire de la psychiatrie
Les historiens datent la naissance de la psychiatrie de l’époque où les médecins renoncent à utiliser le latin comme langue scientifique internationale. A partir de la fin du XVIIIe siècle ils publient désormais leurs travaux sur la pathologie mentale dans une langue européenne moderne comme l’anglais, le français, l’allemand, l’italien ou l’espagnol. Certains de textes publiés dans une de celles-ci d’entre sont traduits plus ou moins rapidement dans une ou plusieurs autres. Mais des textes importants ne le sont pas ou tr&egr...
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Garrabe, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
'An atmosphere of cure': Frederick Mott, shell shock and the Maudsley
Although recognized as a medical scientist, the work of Frederick Mott as a physician, educator and clinical policymaker has been overshadowed. As a late entrant to the asylum system, Mott questioned established practices of treating mentally-ill patients and campaigned for reform. During World War I, entrusted with the management of the Maudsley neurological section, he sought to raise clinical standards and experimented with a range of therapies designed to treat the most severe or intractable forms of shell shock. While Mott believed that psychiatric disorder was underwritten by inherited characteristics, he did not dis...
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jones, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Nostalgia: a conceptual history
The term nostalgia was first proposed in 1688 by Johannes Hofer as equivalent to the German term Heimweh. It referred to a state of moral pain associated with the forced separation from family and social environment. Consecutive clinical descriptions from the seventeenth century up to the present day have been subjected to the aetiopathogenic and clinical paradigms of each period. Golden-age descriptions of nostalgia that are of particular interest were derived from the observation of conscript soldiers in Napoleonic campaigns by authors such as Gerbois and Larrey. In 1909 Jaspers devoted his doctoral thesis to this topic ...
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Fuentenebro de Diego, F., Valiente Ots, C. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Some reflections on madness and culture in the post-war world
This article examines the treatment of madness as a theme in drama, opera and films, concentrating its attention for the most part on the period between World War II and the 1980s. These were the years in which psychoanalysis dominated psychiatry in the USA, and so Freud’s influence in the broader culture forms the central though not the sole focus of the analysis. (Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Scull, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The first 25 years of History of Psychiatry
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Source: History of Psychiatry - November 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Research on the history of psychiatry: Dissertation Abstracts, 2011 (continued)
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Source: History of Psychiatry - August 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Research on the history of psychiatry Source Type: research
Book Review: Theodor Itten and Courtenay Young (eds) R.D. Laing: 50 Years Since
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Source: History of Psychiatry - August 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Miller, G. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Book Review: Mitzi Waltz, Autism: A Social and Medical History
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Source: History of Psychiatry - August 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Evans, B. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Book Review: Allan V Horwitz, Anxiety: A Short History
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Source: History of Psychiatry - August 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jackson, M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Book Review: Anna Shepherd, Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England
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Source: History of Psychiatry - August 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dale, P. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Book Review: PN Singer (ed.), with contributions by Daniel Davies and Vivian Nutton, Galen: Psychological Writings
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Source: History of Psychiatry - August 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Gill, C. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
J.H. Pons on 'Sympathetic insanity': With an introduction by
The ancient concept of ‘sympathy’ originally referred to a putative affinity or force that linked all natural objects together. This notion was later used to explain the manner in which human beings related and felt for each other. A large literature exists on both the physical and psychological definitions of sympathy. Until the nineteenth century the conceptual apparatus of medicine preserved the view that the organs of the human body had a sympathetic affinity for each other. In addition to these ‘physiological’ (normal) sympathies there were morbid ones which explained the existence of various d...
Source: History of Psychiatry - August 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Berrios, G. Tags: Classic Text No. 99 Source Type: research
From the Netherlands to Japan: communicating psychiatric practice in the 1830s
This article explores an example of the transmission of Dutch psychiatric knowledge to Japan in the Edo period (1600–1868), through the translation of a case study first published by Schroeder van der Kolk in 1826. The translation appeared in an innovative new journal of Western medicine edited by the Japanese rangaku (Dutch-learning) scholar, Mitsukuri Genpo. The case study describes the symptoms and treatment of a woman who experienced delusions following an ear infection, in terms largely familiar to the Japanese doctors of the time. This translation provides opportunities to consider the globalization and localiz...
Source: History of Psychiatry - August 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Nakamura, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Demonic possession and the historical construction of melancholy and hysteria
Contrary to the often-voiced opinion that the birth of modern psychiatry should be regarded as a victory of enlightened science and rationality over outdated religious beliefs and ecclesiastical authority, it is argued in this article that the emergence of medical and psychiatric approaches to pathology in modernity takes place in the context of intensified religious life and mutual rivalry between the various religious denominations. Notably the two main types of demonological possession appearing in the context of Protestant and Catholic religious life, theological reflections and pastoral practices play a major role in ...
Source: History of Psychiatry - August 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Westerink, H. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Karl Jaspers on the disease entity: Kantian ideas and Weberian ideal types
Jaspers’ nosology is indebted to Immanuel Kant’s theory of knowledge. He drew the distinction of form and content from the Transcendental Analytic of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. The distinction is universal to all knowledge, including psychopathology. Individual experience is constituted by a form or category of the Understanding to give a determinate or knowable object classified into the generic type of a real disease entity. The application of form and content is limited by the boundaries of experience. Beyond this boundary are wholes whose conception requires Ideas of reason drawn from the Transce...
Source: History of Psychiatry - August 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Walker, C. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
