Dissertation Abstracts
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Research on the history of psychiatry Source Type: research
Book Review: Barbara Taylor, The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Smith, L. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Book Review: Catharine Coleborne, Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Finnane, M. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
'The "schizophrenic" in the self-consciousness of schizophrenic patients, by Mari Nagai (1990)
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Motobayashi, Y., Parnas, J., Motobayashi, Y., Kimura, B., Toda, D. L. Tags: Classic Text No. 108 Source Type: research
Phrenology between anthropology and neurology in a nineteenth-century collection of skulls
The University of Padua has many legends about its cultural heritage. One of these concerns a collection of eight skulls still preserved in the Hall of Medicine at Bo Palace, near the old anatomy theatre built in 1545. It is said that some famous professors of the University donated their bodies to medical science, and the skulls were from these bodies. From multidisciplinary research, both historical and anthropological, we have discovered that Francesco Cortese, Professor of Medicine and Rector of the University, started this personal collection of colleagues’ skulls, although they had not donated their bodies to s...
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Zanatta, A., Scattolin, G., Thiene, G., Zampieri, F. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
A historiographic study of psychiatric treatments in Brazil: mentalism and organicism from 1830 to 1859
Our aim is to investigate two major tendencies in nineteenth-century Brazilian alienism: mentalism and organicism, by conducting a descriptive study of original Brazilian documents on medical health treatments in the 1830s, 1840s and 1850s. Primary sources of Brazilian alienism were theses, memoirs, official reports, and documents written by clinicians and asylum directors. We analysed early mental treatment in Brazilian lunatic asylums, exploring the relative contributions of two main theoretical orientations: moral treatment (based on Pinel and Esquirol) and ‘medical-organicist therapeutic orientation’. Inter...
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Almeida de Oliveira, C. F., Martins Eulalio, C. E., Campelo, V., Dalgalarrondo, P., Dening, T. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
A war psychiatry approach to warfare in the Middle Byzantine period
Combat stress cases were traced in historical texts and military manuals on warfare from the Middle Byzantine period; they were mainly labelled as cowardice. Soldiers suffered from nostalgia or exhaustion; officers looked stunned, or could not speak during the battle. Cruel punishments were often enforced. Suicide and alcohol abuse were rarely mentioned. The Byzantines’ evacuation system for battle casualties was well organized. Psychological operations were conducted and prisoners-of-war were usually part of them. The Byzantine army had ‘parakletores’, officers assigned to encourage soldiers before comba...
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ntafoulis, P. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Esquirols change of view towards Pinels mania without delusion
We recount how Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772–1840) gradually changed his position towards what Philipe Pinel (1745–1826) referred to as mania without delusion. Between 1805 and 1838, Esquirol moved from outright rejection, questioning the very idea of insane persons committing motiveless acts of violence without delusion, to relative acceptance. He eventually incorporated the clinical characteristics of mania without delusion in his description of homicidal monomania, dividing them between reasoning monomania and instinctive monomania. We examine this change by detailing each of Esquirol’s ...
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Trichet, Y., Lacroix, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Platzschwindel, agoraphobia and their influence on theories of anxiety at the end of the nineteenth century: theories of the role of biology and 'representations (Vorstellungen)
During the 1860s, Berlin’s exterior physiognomy transformed radically. The city eroded the surrounding rural areas, and the frontiers of the old city centre were abolished. These transformations led to the disappearance of the visible frontiers that once demarcated the limits of the old residential Prussian city. In this context, the description of the clinical picture of agoraphobia by the Berlin psychiatrist Carl Westphal in 1872 marked a turning point, not only in psychiatric theories on anxiety but also in the conceptualization of our experience of space. In this paper, the authors trace the emergence of a new ps...
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ghazal, Y. A., Hinton, D. E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Natural kinds, psychiatric classification and the history of the DSM
This paper addresses philosophical issues concerning whether mental disorders are natural kinds and how the DSM should classify mental disorders. I argue that some mental disorders (e.g. schizophrenia, depression) are natural kinds in the sense that they are natural classes constituted by a set of stable biological mechanisms. I subsequently argue that a theoretical and causal approach to classification would provide a method for classifying natural kinds that is superior to the purely descriptive approach adopted by the DSM since DSM-III. My argument suggests that the DSM should classify natural kinds in order to provide ...
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tsou, J. Y. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Italian colonial psychiatry: outlines of a discipline, and practical achievements in Libya and the Horn of Africa
This article describes the establishment of psychiatry in Italy’s former colonies during the period 1906–43, in terms of the clinical and institutional mechanisms, the underlying theories and the main individuals involved. ‘Colonial psychiatry’ (variously called ‘ethnographic’, ‘comparative’ or ‘racial’ psychiatry) – the object of which was both to care for mentally afflicted colonists and local people and also to understand and make sense of their pathologies – received most attention in colonial Libya, starting in the first months of the Italian occu...
Source: History of Psychiatry - November 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Scarfone, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Response by the author (received 19 April 2016)
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Letters to the Editor Source Type: research
S. Shamdasani and the 'serial exemplarity of mediumship in Jungs work: a critique (received 8 February 2016)
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Letters to the Editor Source Type: research
Dissertation Abstracts
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Research on the history of psychiatry Source Type: research
Book Review: Annie Bartlett, Secure Lives: The Meaning & Importance of Culture in Secure Hospital Care
(Source: History of Psychiatry)
Source: History of Psychiatry - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lux, E. J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
