abstract：:The publication in the 1980s of The Christian Watt Papers brought to public attention the life of a previously unknown, long-term inmate of the Aberdeen Royal Asylum. Christian Watt's story inspired a play and a television documentary. This paper examines what the historical records reveal about Watt's life and how th...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Beveridge A,Watson F

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The work of Georges Lantéri-Laura reflects well the changes that have affected French psychiatry during the second half of the twentieth century. Their beginning can be traced back to the First World Congress of Psychiatry (Paris, 1950) organized by Henri Ey (1900-77) and to the publication of the first edition of the...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Garrabé J

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the aftermath of World War II, a struggle ensued over the direction of American psychoanalysis. Led by William Menninger, who reluctantly assumed the presidency of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1946, a cohort of American-born psychoanalysts sought to make their profession more responsive to other medic...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Plant RJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lobotomy is still a hidden chapter in the history of Norwegian psychiatry. The main reasons, which are discussed here, may have been the role of Ørnulv Ødegård at Gaustad Hospital in Oslo and the links between health authorities and the power élite in Norwegian psychiatry. ...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Tranøy J,Blomberg W

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger's view of the doctor-patient relationship as a direct and trusting existential encounter in a 1935 clinical case of hysteria. Drawing upon unpublished materials from the patient record and correspondence, I show that his conception of existential encounter e...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Lanzoni S

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In late nineteenth-century France, alcoholism was defined in public debates and medical literature as a male problem. In the light of this public silence on female alcoholism, asylum records can provide information about the reactions of psychiatrists and families to extreme cases of female alcohol abuse. Based on the...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Prestwich PE

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By providing the first description of infantile autism Leo Kanner (1894-1981) has substantially influenced the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. The classification of the disorder seems to be evolving with progress in clinical and diagnostic research, epidemiology and genetics. In the current classification sy...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Neumärker KJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Part 1 of this essay, I argued that in Augustan and Georgian England it was widely understood that madness could have two more-or-less distinct meanings. "Moral" madness was the subject's own fault, and he/she remained accountable for actions commissioned under its effects. The "morally" mad individual's thoughts a...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Laffey P

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Part 1 of this study described the backdrop to the development of Kraepelin's ideas on dementia praecox and examined the response to the concept in the British psychiatric textbooks and journals of the period. Part 2 now explores the reaction to the concept in the professional meetings of the period, held by the Briti...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Ion RM,Beer MD

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary psychiatrists and historians know very little about the life of Emil Kraepelin. Until recently they had to glean what information they could from his memoirs, which had more to say about his travels to far-flung corners of the world than about his own mental life. Now, however, a unique historical documen...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Engstrom EJ,Burgmair W,Weber MM

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pierre Janet, in his famous paper (1892) on anterograde amnesia, is concerned with the theme of the disintegration of the human personality. He shows that the weakened personality may lose the power to assimilate memories of current events. After a severe shock, there may supervene not only a retrograde amnesia (a blo...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Janet P,Nicolas S,Penel A

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the description and classification of Symptomatic psychoses in 1908, Karl Bonhoeffer laid the foundation for a categorization into exogenous and endogenous psychoses. This opened new pathogenic and psychopathologic horizons in connection with the aetiology of psychoses, as was particularly exemplified by Bonhoeff...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Neumärker KJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Portrayals of characters with an intellectual impairment in nineteenth-century prose fiction are analyzed. In the earlier works idiocy is imprecisely differentiated from madness or eccentricity and the characters are mostly shown as socially and psychologically marginal and 'other'. In the later works a greater natura...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Dickinson H

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines some of the factors associated with the introduction of a range of new drug treatments into psychiatry in the 1950s and 1960s. The nature of psychiatry in the United Kingdom in preceding decades is examined and a continuous emphasis on biological explanations and treatments of mental disorder is re...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Moncrieff J

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water has long been considered an effective means of therapy for mental disorders. Its use, however, was divided along class lines during the nineteenth century. After presenting a brief background of the general conditions of the insane in Norway around the mid-nineteenth century when modern psychiatry entered the sc...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Blomberg W

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archival records of physical restraint usage at the St. Louis Insane Asylum (now the St. Louis State Hospital) were examined from January through June 1885. The demographics of restrained patients were determined from archival admission records. In the 6-month (181-day) sample period, 53 patients accounted for the tot...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Esther RJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The life of the mentally disturbed in psychiatric institutions during the first decades of the nineteenth century has been many times described by psychiatrists connected with those institutions. The accuracy of these accounts is, however, difficult to ascertain because independent testimonies are rare. Yet, such mate...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Windholz G

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00