History of psychiatry and medical psychology : with an epilogue on psychiatry and the mind-body relation

This book chronicles the conceptual and methodological facets of psychiatry and medical psychology throughout history. There are no recent books covering so wide a time span. Many of the facets covered are pertinent to issues in general medicine, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and the social sciences today. The divergent emphases and interpretations among some of the contributors point to the necessity for further exploration and analysis. As A Discipline, Psychiatry Has Always Walked A Fine If Not Easily Defined Line Between Social And Biological Science. This Book Traces This Evolution In Its Social, Political, And Philosophical Contexts, Charting The Rise Of Psychology As A Legitimate Field Of Scientific Pursuit, And Of Psychiatry As A Medical Specialty. An Interdisciplinary Team Of Historians (including Sander Gilman, Dora Weiner, Hannah Decker, And The Recently Deceased Dean Of American Psychiatric History, George Mora, M.d.) Has Distilled Centuries Of History, Protracted Debates, False Starts, And Missteps, Resulting In A Narrative Of History And Methodology In The Making. Section One: Prolegomenon -- Historiography: Philosophy And Methodology Of History, With Special Emphasis On Medicine And Psychiatry; And An Appendix On Historiography As The History Of History / Edwin R. Wallace, Iv -- Contextualizing The History Of Psychiatry/psychology And Psychoanalysis: Annotated Bibliography And Essays: Addenda A-f / Edwin R. Wallace, Iv -- Section Two: Periods -- Mind And Madness In Classical Antiquity / Bennett Simon -- Mental Disturbances, Unusual Mental States, And Their Interpretation During The Middle Ages / George Mora -- Renaissance Conceptions And Treatments Of Madness / George Mora -- The Madman In The Light Of Reason. Enlightenment Psychiatry: Part I. Custody, Therapy, Theory And The Need For Reform / Dora B. Weiner -- The Madman In The Light Of Reason. Enlightenment Psychiatry: Part Ii. Alienists, Treatises, And The Psychologic Approach In The Era Of Pinel / Dora B. Weiner -- Philippe Pinel In The Twenty-first Century: The Myth And The Message / Dora B. Weiner -- German Romantic Psychiatry: Part I. Earlier, Including More-psychological Orientations / Otto M. Marx -- German Romantic Psychiatry: Part Ii. Later, Including More-somatic Orientations / Otto M. Marx -- Descriptive Psychiatry And Psychiatric Nosology During The Nineteenth Century / German Berrios -- Biological Psychiatry In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries / John Gach -- The Intersection Of Psychopharmacology And Psychiatry In The Second Half Of The Twentieth Century / David Healy -- Section Three: Concepts And Topics -- A History Of Melancholia And Depression / Stanley W. Jackson -- Constructing Schizophrenia As A Category Of Mental Illness / Sander L Gilman -- The Concept Of Psychosomatic Medicine / Herbert Weiner -- Neurology's Influence On American Psychiatry: 1865-1915 / Edward M. Brown -- The Transformation Of American Psychiatry: From Institution To Community, 1800-2000 / Gerald N. Grob -- The Transition To Secular Psychotherapy: Hypnosis And The Alternate-consciousness Paradigm / Adam Crabtree -- Psychoanalysis In Central Europe: The Interplay Of Psychoanalysis And Culture / Hannah S. Decker -- The Psychoanalytic Movement In The United States, 1906-1991 / Sanford Gifford -- The Development Of Clinical Psychology, Social Work, And Psychiatric Nursing: 1900-1980s / Nancy Tomes -- Epilogue: Psychiatry And The Mind-body Relation -- Thoughts Toward A Critique Of Biological Psychiatry / John Gach -- Two Mind-body Models For A Holistic Psychiatry / Edwin R. Wallace, Iv -- Freud On Mind-body I: The Psychoneurobiological And Instinctualist Stance; With Implications For Chapter 24, And Two Postscripts / Edwin R. Wallace, Iv -- Freud On Mind-body Ii: Drive, Motivation, Meaning, History, And Freud's Psychological Heuristic; With Clinical And Everyday Examples / Edwin R. Wallace, Iv -- Psychosomatic Medicine And The Mind-body Relation: Historical, Philosophical, Scientific, And Clinical Perspectives / Herbert Weiner. Edited By Edwin R. Wallace Iv And John Gach. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Most of the prefatory issues are extensively elaborated upon in the Prolegomenon, which also contains the complete references to the texts and authors discussed below. Nevertheless, the “Preface” would be grossly incomplete without touching on some of these issues, books, and scholars. Too, many of this book’s chapters (e. g. , Mora’s, Marx’s, D. B. Weiner’s) examine and “reference” important earlier, as well as contemporary, general histories of psychiatry and specialized monographs; in German, French, Italian, and Spanish. Also, in his 1968 Short History of Psychiatry, d- cussed below, Ackerknecht (pp. xi–xii) references important nineteenth and earlier-twentieth century psychiatric histories in English, French, and German. Such citations will of course not be repeated here. Finally, thanks to several publishers’re-editions of dozens of classical psychiatric texts; one can consult their bibliographies as well. See “Prolegomenon” for references to these splendid series. In a rough-and-ready sense, medical history began in classical Greece—for example, On Ancient Medicine. While traditionally included in the Hippocratic corpus, this text seems more likely to have been written by a non- or even anti-Hippocratic doctor. Moreover, the Hippocratic and other schools were hardly as secular as we now suppose. On Epilepsy, for example, does not so much declare the prevalent denotation of it as the “sacred disease” erroneous as it does that it is no more nor less sacred than any other disease. As a discipline, psychiatry has always walked a fine if not easily defined line between social and biological science. This title traces this evolution in its social, political, and philosophical contexts, charting the rise of psychology as a legitimate field of scientific pursuit, and of psychiatry as a medical specialty.