Discovering the History of Psychiatry

The history of psychiatry has emerged as one of the most rapidly growing and controversial areas of commentary in recent years. Discovering the History of Psychiatry brings together 20 studies by eminent, international contributors who explore the many complex dimensions of historical writing about the psychological sciences. The extensive coverage includes: the history of the asylum, Freud biography, and anti-psychiatry feeling, as well as discussions of individual historical figures and movements. This is the first book to present comprehensive coverage of the history of psychiatry and will make interesting reading for everyone interested in this fascinating subject.

ISBN	0195077393	DEWEY edition	DC20
ISBN13	9780195077391 (What's this?)	Pages	478
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc	Volumes	1
Imprint	Oxford University Press Inc	Weight (grammes)	821
Format	Hardback	Published in	New York
Publication date	17 Feb 1994	Height (mm)	234
Non-book description	xii466	Width (mm)	156
Library of Congress	RC438.D58	Spine width (mm)	25
DEWEY	616.89009	Academic level	Professional / Scholarly

	Contributors
1	Introduction: Reflections on Psychiatry and Its Histories by Roy Porter and Mark S. Micale	3
2	The Beginning of Psychiatric Historiography in Nineteenth-Century Germany by Otto M. Marx	39
3	Early American Historians of Psychiatry: 1910-1960 by George Mora	53
4	Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter: History between Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry by Roy Porter	83
5	George Rosen and the History of Mental Illness by Edward T. Morman	95
6	Henri F. Ellenberger: The History of Psychiatry as the History of the Unconscious by Mark S. Micale	112
7	Jean Starobinski: The History of Psychiatry as the Cultural History Consciousness by Fernando Vidal	135
8	A History of Freud Biographies by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl	157
9	"A Whole Climate of Opinion": Rewriting the History of Psychoanalysis by John Forrester	174
10	Philip Rieff: The Critic of Psychoanalysis as Cultural Theorist by Kenneth S. Piver	191
11	"Les mythes d'origine" in the History of Psychiatry by Patrick Vandermeersch	219
12	"Le geste de Pinel": The History of a Psychiatric Myth by Dora B. Weiner	232
13	The History of Psychiatry in Italy: A Century of Studies by Patrizia Guarnieri	248
14	The History of the Asylum Revisited: Personal Reflections by Gerald N. Grob	260
15	German Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychoanalysis during the Nazi Period: Historiographical Reflections by Geoffrey Cocks	282
16	Heroes and Non-Heroes: Recurring Themes in the Historiography of Russian-Soviet Psychiatry by Julie V. Brown	297
17	The Rhetorical Paradigm in Psychiatric History: Thomas Szasz and the Myth of Mental Illness by Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg	311
18	Michel Foucault's Phanomenologie des Krankengeistes by Gary Gutting	331
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