abstract：:The American Civil War resulted in massive numbers of injured and ill soldiers. Throughout the conflict, medical doctors relied on opium to treat these conditions, giving rise to claims that the injudicious use of the narcotic caused America's post-bellum opium crisis. Similar claims of medical misuse of opioids are n...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Lande RG

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a long conceptual tradition that interprets phenomena such as clairvoyance and apparitions as evidence for a spiritual component in human beings. Examples of this appear in the literatures of mesmerism, Spiritualism and psychical research. The purpose of this Classic Text is to present excerpts from a book by...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Alvarado CS,Zingrone NL

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study looks into the much-neglected history of neurasthenia in Maoist China in relation to the development of psy sciences. It begins with an examination of the various factors that transformed neurasthenia into a major health issue from the late 1950s to mid-1960s. It then investigates a distinctive cultu...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Wang WJ

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1779, Susan Carnegie (1743-1821) persuaded the Town Council of Montrose, Scotland, to build a safe haven for those suffering from both poverty and mental illness. As a result, Montrose Lunatic Asylum became not only the first public asylum in Scotland, but among the first in the English-speaking world. Carnegie - b...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Walbaum SD

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heiberg's 1913 text on psychopathological concepts and terms in classical times remains important because of its freshness and historiographical value. A philologist and classical scholar, he seemed puzzled by the assumption of nosological continuity between classical categories of madness and current ones that prevai...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Berrios GE,Schioldann J,Schioldann J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, I resurrect a long-forgotten inquiry into abuse and maladministration at an institution for people with learning disabilities, the Baldovan Institution near Dundee, that has lain buried in the archives for the past 60 years. I contrast the response to it with the very different response to the similar r...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： May D

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The State Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, was the first public hospital of its kind to be established in the state and among the earliest to be built on the 'Kirkbride Plan'. It opened for patients in 1851. We describe the background to the establishment of the hospital and, so far as...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Howarth RJ,Aleguas SA

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatrist Édouard Toulouse (1865-1947) is known today for his 1896 psychometric study of the novelist Émile Zola, and his contributions to mental hygiene, sexology, eugenics, and labour efficiency in inter-war France. This paper examines research undertaken in Toulouse's Laboratory of Experimental Psychology at the...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Nelson E

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric classification remains a complex endeavour; since the Enlightenment, nosologists have made use of various models and metaphors to describe their systems. Here we present the most common model, botanical taxonomy, and trace its history from the nosologies of Sydenham, Sauvages and Linnaeus; to evolutionary ...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Mason D,Hsin H

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pierre Janet and Joseph Breuer were the true originators of psychoanalysis. Freud greatly elaborated on their findings. Freud initially admitted these facts but denied them in later life. Janet discovered the concept transference before Freud. ...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Fitzgerald M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francesco Borromini, one of the great geniuses of Baroque architecture, was tormented and solitary, and was increasingly frustrated by the fame and success of his rival, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Borromini was an unhappy man, constantly dogged by disaster, quarrelling even with his best patrons and closest friends. In the...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Cipriani G,Cipriani L,Di Fiorino M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：: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 unaccou...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Vaz JM

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the release of the DSM-III, multiaxial assessment, which was a new concept, was introduced to daily clinical practice. This article will review the history and the development of the concept of multiaxial assessment and will focus on the its relationship to the DSM-III. In conclusion I will discuss different crit...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Bronschtein E

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Those afflicted bark like dogs, scramble on all fours and loiter around graveyards - canine madness, referred to as kynanthropy, was an illness concept in its own right in the medicine of late antiquity. At roughly the same time as the medical description produced by Aëtius of Amida, the Syrian chronicler John of Ephe...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Metzger N

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the beginning of the 20th century there took place in German Psychiatry an important debate on the nature and relative importance of mental symptoms and diseases. Young psychiatrists such as Störring, Ziehen, Gaupp, Hoche, Jaspers and Gruhle challenged, from various perspectives, the nosology of established figures...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Schioldann J,Berrios G

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychiatric aspects of David Hartley's writings have received less attention than the rest of his work. This Classic Text deals with Section VI of his Observations on Man …, namely, the 'Imperfections of the rational Faculty'. Hartley defines madness as an imperfection of reason that can be temporary or enduring. ...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Berrios GE

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：: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 sympath...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Berrios GE,Pons JH

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deathbed visions have been of interest to psychical researchers and others since the nineteenth century. This Classic Text presents a reprint of an article on 'Visions of the Dying' published in 1907 in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by philosopher and psychical researcher James H. Hyslop (...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Alvarado CS

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article probes the relationship between psychoanalysis and right-wing authoritarianism, and analyses a unique psychotherapeutic institution established by Serbia's World War II collaborationist regime. The extraordinary Institute for compulsory re-education of high-school and university students affiliated with t...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Antic A

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：: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-...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Schioldann J,Søgaard I

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：: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 arg...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Miller E

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper investigates the methodology involved in Jaspers' psychopathology and compares it with Husserl's phenomenology and with Dilthey's cultural science. Allgemeine Psychopathologie and other methodological works by Jaspers, the works of Husserl and Dilthey that Jaspers cited, and previous research papers ...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Kumazaki T

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, there was much discussion on the role of alcohol. The explorers expected to be able to consume alcohol, and the expeditions were supported by companies producing alcoholic beverages that used the Antarctic connection in their advertising. On the other side, it was said (...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Guly H

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper describes Victor Kandinsky's professional achievements within nineteenth-century Russian forensic psychiatry. A thorough review of nineteenth-century Russian psychiatry is presented, followed by a short biographical account of Kandinsky's personal life. Within the backdrop of Russian forensic psychiatry towa...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Lerner V,Margolin J,Witztum E

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asylums and cemeteries in nineteenth-century England were kindred spirits in the anxiety and exclusionary impulses that they engendered, leading them to be similarly exiled from nineteenth-century urban areas. They were uneasy 'neighbours', however, with contemporary authorities condemning the proximity of cemeteries ...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Philo C

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the multiple influences Scottish psychiatrists have exercised over the shape of English responses to mental illness during nearly three centuries, beginning with George Cheyne and ending with R.D. Laing. Scotland's distinctive response to mental illness was largely ignored until recently, as though...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Scull A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific features characterized Italian psychiatry during Fascism (1922-45), distinguishing it from Nazi psychiatry and giving rise to different operational outcomes, so we have investigated the state of Italian psychiatry during this period. We review the historical situation that preceded it and describe the social ...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Piazzi A,Testa L,Del Missier G,Dario M,Stocco E

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carl Lange was the founding father of neurology in Denmark, authoring several pioneering works within this field; however, these remained largely unknown internationally as he did not have them translated into a major language. He became a pioneer of psychophysiology with his contribution to the so-called James-Lange ...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Schioldann J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this contribution is to analyse the incidence and treatment of war neurosis in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War. First, the scientific papers published on war neurosis during and after the war are examined. Then the work of Gregorio Bermann (1894-1972), a member of the International Brigades who organize...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Villasante O

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article draws on over 60 years of British medical journals and psychiatry textbooks to indicate the chronological stages of the reception of Eugen Bleuler in British psychiatry. Bleuler was already well known in Britain before his schizophrenia book appeared, with the journals containing numerous references, main...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Dalzell T

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between May 1869 and December 1875, Charles Darwin exchanged more than 40 letters with James Crichton-Browne, superintendent of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. This paper charts their relationship within the context of Darwin's wider research networks and methods; it analyses the contribut...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Pearn AM

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the early twentieth century the Danish psychiatrist August Wimmer (1872-1937) developed the concept of psychogenic psychosis (PP) as a category of mental disorders separate from schizophrenia and manic depression. It subsumed a variety of clinical conditions with affective, confusional and paranoid features typical...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Castagnini AC

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early nineteenth-century asylum in Britain was generally sited upon a hill with wide-ranging rural views, surrounded by agricultural land, gardens and landscaped grounds. A number of historians have discussed the role of these features as places for patients to partake in recreation, exercise and work. This paper ...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Hickman C

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper sets out Kant's anthropological account of mental disorder. I begin with a discussion of the nature of Kant's 'pragmatic anthropology' and the implications of the fact that his discussion of mental disorder takes place in that context. I then set out Kant's taxonomy of the mind and discuss the various disor...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Frierson P

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyses the concepts of order and normality underlying the daily psychiatric practice of two Swiss mental health institutions between 1870 and 1970, based on a representative random sample of 1330 patient records from the two state institutions in the Canton of Zurich. The quantitative analysis covers the ...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Meier M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Folie a plusieurs is a syndrome in which two or more individuals share symptoms (e.g., delusions). This paper uses archival material to present and discuss forensic psychiatric cases of folie a plusieurs from nineteenth-century Ireland. The cases of three brothers who all 'became insane at the same time' and killed an...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Kelly BD

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1936 Egas Moniz introduced a new method for treating mental illness--psychosurgery. This new procedure was taken up immediately in a number of countries, including Italy. In most countries its introduction was slow and the numbers of operations were in single figures, but in Italy the introduction was rapid and aro...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Kotowicz Z

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until the end of the 20th century Forel (1848-1931) was seen as an important neuroanatomist, a fighter against alcoholism, a researcher on ants and the author of Die sexuelle Frage. Forel's racist and eugenic views have been forgotten. Without losing sight of his merits, this article focuses on his attitude to eugenic...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Kuechenhoff B

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:R. D. Laing's mental hospital experience has been considered a formative influence on his controversial views. This paper addresses a number of discrepancies in the existing accounts: important aspects of the refractory ward and 'rumpus room' were underestimated; all the 'rumpus room' patients were not discharged and ...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Abrahamson D

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Part I of this article on Bayard Taylor Holmes (1852-1924), a Chicago physician and surgeon, detailed his laboratory research on dementia praecox and his presumed discovery in 1915 of evidence in support of a focal infection theory of its aetiology. In May 1916 he began to experiment with a rational therapy based on t...

journal_title：History of psychiatry

authors： Noll R

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00