History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology

With an Epilogue on Psychiatry and the Mind-Body Relation
2008
ISBN: 978-1-4419-8129-5
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 862 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1678 g

This book chronicles the conceptual and methodological facets of psychiatry and medical psychology throughout history. Many of these are pertinent to contemporary issues in general medicine, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and the social sciences. Section One, "Periods," reviews the prehistory and history of the field from the embryonic psychiatry of antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, through the emergence of psychiatry as a medical specialty. Section Two, "Key Topics and Concepts", explores the history of major psychiatric disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, psychosomatic disorders, the influence of neurology of psychiatry, the evolution and transformation of mental institutions, and the psychoanalytic movement in the United States. Section Three, "Epilogue", is a philosophical treatment of psychiatry as a medical specialty.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gach, John

Wallace, Edwin R.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prolegomenon.- Historiography.- Contextualizing the History of Psychiatry/Psychology and Psychoanalysis.- Periods.- Mind and Madness in Classical Antiquity.- Mental Disturbances, Unusual Mental States, and Their Interpretation during the Middle Ages.- Renaissance Conceptions and Treatments of Madness.- The Madman in the Light of Reason Enlightenment Psychiatry.- The Madman in the Light of Reason. Enlightenment Psychiatry.- Philippe Pinel in the Twenty-First Century.- German Romantic Psychiatry.- German Romantic Psychiatry.- Descriptive Psychiatry and Psychiatric Nosology during the Nineteenth Century.- Biological Psychiatry in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.- The Intersection of Psychopharmacology and Psychiatry in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.- Concepts and Topics.- A History of Melancholia and Depression.- Constructing Schizophrenia as a Category of Mental Illness.- The Concept of Psychosomatic Medicine.- Neurology’s Influence on American Psychiatry: 1865–1915.- The Transformation of American Psychiatry.- The Transition to Secular Psychotherapy.- Psychoanalysis in Central Europe.- The Psychoanalytic Movement in the United States, 1906–1991.- The Development of Clinical Psychology, Social Work, and Psychiatric Nursing: 1900–1980s.- Epilogue Psychiatry and the Mind-Body Relation.- Thoughts Toward a Critique of Biological Psychiatry.- Two “Mind”-“Body” Models for a Holistic Psychiatry.- Freud on “Mind-Body” I: The Psychoneurobiological and “Instinctualist” Stance; with Implications for Chapter 24, and Two Postscripts.- Freud on “Mind”-“Body” II: Drive, Motivation, Meaning, History, and Freud’s Psychological Heuristic; with Clinical and Everyday Examples.- Psychosomatic Medicine and the Mind-Body Relation.

Über Autor(innen)

Edwin Wallace IV, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Research Professor of Bioethics at the University of South Carolina. Until 1995 he was Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at the Medical College of Georgia. In 1984 he published Historiography and Causation in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press) and is generally regarded as an expert on the history of psychiatry and medical psychology. Dr. Wallace is a cofounder of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (a 1200-member international organization that publishes a quarterly journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology with Johns Hopkins University Press).

John Gach is owner and president of John Gach Books, Inc., an antiquarian bookselling firm that has specialized in rare and out-of-print psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, and neuroscience for 35 years. Regarded as a leading authority on the bibliography of books in the fields his firm deals in, Gach has published a number of review essays in journals such as the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, and a chapter in Essays in the History of Psychiatry, edited by Edwin Wallace and Lucius Pressley. Most recently he edited for Thoemmes Press the series Foundations of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, which reprinted both the eighth German edition of Emil Kraepelin's Psychiatrie and the five Kraepelin titles published in English during his lifetime. He has also been engaged in a long term project to describe and comprehend the phenomenology of book collecting, about which topic he has lectured.