E.R. Wallace, J. Gach (Eds.) History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology With an Epilogue on Psychiatry and the Mind-Body Relation
▶ Co-editor Edwin Wallace is a well known historian of psychiatry and medical psychology ▶ Contributors are noted scholars in the areas covered ▶ There are no recent books covering as long a time span ▶ The first comprehensive English-language reference on the history of psychiatry since 1966
The first English-language comprehensive reference on the history of psychiatry since 1966. The Romans knew that Nero was insane. Shakespeare’s Macbeth asked his doctor to treat "a mind diseased." The people of the European Enlightenment era pondered whether the asylum inmates were mad or simply bad. As a discipline, psychiatry has always walked a fine if not easily defined line between social and biological science. 2008, XLIX, 862 p. 1 illus. History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology 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 Printed book noted historians (including Sander Gilman, Dora Weiner, Hannah Decker, and the recently deceased dean of American psychiatric history, George Mora) has distilled centuries Hardcover of history—protracted debates, false starts, and missteps included—resulting in an ▶ 279,99 € | £249.99 | $349.99 engaging and inspiring narrative of history and methodology in the making. Highlights ▶ *299,59 € (D) | 307,99 € (A) | CHF 330.50 include: A prologue dealing with philosophical and methodological history as it applies to psychology and psychiatry The birth of brain science in antiquity, the Middle Ages, eBook and the Renaissance The roots of modern psychiatry in the French Revolution Changing concepts of schizophrenia and depression The influence of neurology on psychiatry Available from your bookstore or Evolutions in treatment: mental institutions, hypnotherapy, pharmacotherapy The ▶ springer.com/shop emergence of psychoanalysis and "national psychologies" in Europe and America Modern critiques, including the chapter "Thoughts Toward a Critique of Biological Psychiatry" Its MyCopy wide scope, divergent viewpoints, and insistence on viewing historical periods through their own lenses and not our own makes this History a must-have reference for scholars of Printed eBook for just psychiatry, psychology, and medicine. At the same time, it is accessible enough for the lay ▶ € | $ 24.99 reader with some background in the field. ▶ springer.com/mycopy
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