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Title

Discovering the history of psychiatry / edited by Mark S. Micale, Roy Porter.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Micale, Mark S., 1957-
• Milwaukee Academy of Medicine. Book Collection WMMCW
• Porter, Roy, 1946-2002
• Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.

Description

xii, 466 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"The field of psychiatry has exercised enormous influence in our century, not only among scientists and mental health professionals, but also in the arts, humanities, and social sciences which shape the cultural life of millions. This vitality has been accompanied by a profusion of historical material. Yet, while growing rapidly, the documented history of psychiatry has been ridden with controversy due to the great variety of interpretive nuance among different writers. This book brings together leading international authorities - physicians, historians, social scientists, and others - who explore the many complex interpretive and ideological dimensions of historical writing about psychiatry. The book includes chapters on the history of the asylum, Freud, anti-psychiatry in the United States and abroad, feminist interpretations of psychiatry's past, and historical accounts of Nazism and psychotherapy, as well as discussions of many individual historical figures and movements. It represents the first attempt to study comprehensively the multiple mythologies that have grown up around the history of madness and the origin, functions, and validity of these myths in our psychological century. The audience includes every person interested in the state of discussion and reflection taking place in the compelling science of the human mind."--Jacket.

Subject

• Psychiatry > Historiography
• Psychiatry > history

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction : Reflections on psychiatry and its histories / Roy Porter and Mark S. Micale -- The beginning of psychiatric historiography in nineteenth-century germany / Otto M. Marx -- Early American historians of psychiatry : 1910-1960 / George Mora -- Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter : history between psychoanalysis and psychiatry / Roy Porter -- George Rosen and the history of mental illness / Edward T. Morman -- Henri F. Ellenberger : the history of psychiatry as the history of the unconscious / Mark S. Micale -- Jean Starobinski : the history of psychiatry as the cultural history consciousness / Fernando Vidal -- A history of Freud biographies / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl -- "A whole climate of opinion" : rewriting the history of psychoanalysis / John Forrester -- Philip Rieff : the critic of psychoanalysis as cultural theorist / Kenneth S. Piver -- "Les mythes d'origine" in the history of psychiatry / Patrick Vandermeersch.
• "Le geste de Pinel" : the history of a psychiatric myth / Dora B. Weiner -- The history of psychiatry in Italy : a century of studies / Patrizia Guarnieri -- The history of the asylum revisited : personal reflections / Gerald N. Grob -- German psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis during the Nazi period : historiographical reflections / Geoffrey Cocks -- Heroes and non-heroes : recurring themes in the historiography of Russian-Soviet psychiatry / Julie V. Brown -- The rhetorical paradigm in psychiatric history : Thomas Szasz and the myth of mental illness / Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg -- Michel Foucault's Phanomenologie des Krankengeistes / Gary Gutting -- Feminist histories of psychiatry / Nancy Tomes -- History and anti-psychiatry in France / Jacques Postel and David F. Allen -- Psychiatry and anti-psychiatry in the United States / Norman Dain.

ISBN

0195077393 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^93012244^

OCLC

27429044

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library