History of Psychiatry

From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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Beskrivning

"PPPP . . . To compress 200 years of psychiatric theory and practice into a compelling and coherent narrative is a fine achievement . . . . What strikes the reader [most] are Shorter's storytelling skills, his ability to conjure up the personalities of the psychiatrists who shaped the discipline and the conditions under which they and their patients lived."--Ray Monk The Mail on Sunday magazine, U.K. "An opinionated, anecdote-rich history. . . . While psychiatrists may quibble, and Freudians and other psychoanalysts will surely squawk, those without a vested interest will be thoroughly entertained and certainly enlightened."--Kirkus Reviews. "Shorter tells his story with immense panache, narrative clarity, and genuinely deep erudition."--Roy Porter Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. In A History of Psychiatry, Edward Shorter shows us the harsh, farcical, and inspiring realities of society's changing attitudes toward and attempts to deal with its mentally ill and the efforts of generations of scientists and physicians to ease their suffering. He paints vivid portraits of psychiatry's leading historical figures and pulls no punches in assessing their roles in advancing or sidetracking our understanding of the origins of mental illness. Shorter also identifies the scientific and cultural factors that shaped the development of psychiatry. He reveals the forces behind the unparalleled sophistication of psychiatry in Germany during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as the emergence of the United States as the world capital of psychoanalysis. This engagingly written, thoroughly researched, and fiercely partisan account is compelling reading for anyone with a personal, intellectual, or professional interest in psychiatry.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-03-16
Mått:150 x 230 x 25 mm
Vikt:670 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:448
Upplaga:1
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9780471245315

Utforska kategorier

Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Psykiatri inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

EDWARD SHORTER, PhD, is Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is the author of ten books, including the international bestseller The Making of the Modern Family and a two-volume history of psychosomatic illness.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface1 The Birth of Psychiatry viiA World without Psychiatry 1Traditional Asylums 4Heralding the Therapeutic Asylum 8Organizing the Therapeutic Asylum 18Nervous Illness and Nonpsychiatrists 22Toward a Biological Psychiatry 26Romantic Psychiatry 292 The Asylum Era 33 National Traditions 34The Pressure of Numbers 46Why the Increase? 48Redistribution of Illness 49Rising Rate of Psychiatric Illness 53Dead End 653 The First Biological Psychiatry 69 Enter Ideas 69A German Century 71French Disasters 81Anglo-Saxon Laggards 87Degeneration 93The End of the First Biological Psychiatry 99An American Postscript 1094 Nerves 113 Nerves Better than Madness 114The Flight of Madness into the Spa 119Tired Nerves and the Rest Cure 129Neurology Discovers Psychotherapy 1365 The Psychoanalytic Hiatus 145 Freud and His Circle 146The Battle Begins 154American Origins 160The Arrival of the Europeans 166Triumph 170Psychoanalysis and the American Jews 1816 Alternatives 190 Fever Cure and Neurosyphilis 192Early Drugs 196Prolonged Sleep 200Shock and Coma 207Electroshock 218The Lobotomy Adventure 225Social and Community Psychiatry 2297 The Second Biological Psychiatry 239 The Genetic Strand 240The First Drug That Worked 246The Cornucopia 255Neuroscience 262Antipsychiatry 272Return to “the Community” 277The Battle over ECT 2818 From Freud to Prozac 288 Maintaining Market Share 289A Nation Hungers for Psychotherapy 293Science versus Fashion in Diagnosis 295The Decline of Psychoanalysis 305Cosmetic Psychopharmacology 314Why Psychiatry? 325Notes 329 Index 421