A Critical History of Schizophrenia

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Springer, 8 de abr. de 2016 - 269 páginas

Schizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry's arch concept of madness. Yet for most of that century it was both problematic and contentious. This history explores schizophrenia's historic instability via themes such as symptoms, definition, classification and anti-psychiatry. In doing so, it opens up new ways of understanding 20th century madness.

 

Conteúdo

Introduction
1
The Lexicon
14
2 The Split Personality
21
3 Definitions of Schizophrenia
39
Faces in the Fire
68
Classification
86
Bleulers Four As
109
7 Social Prejudice
127
9 Manufacturing Consensus in North America
168
Twentiethcentury Schizophrenia
197
Consider Nijinsky
211
Goodbye to Hebephrenia
213
Notes
215
Further Reading
219
References
233
Index
263

8 Contesting Schizophrenia?
147

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Kieran McNally previously studied and worked at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK. He is currently Adjunct Lecturer in Psychology at University College Dublin, Ireland, specializing in the history of psychiatry. He is also the author of the ecological and social history, The Island Imagined by the Sea.

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