Revisiting Emil Kraepelin's eugenic arguments.

IF 0.3 3区 哲学 Q4 HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
History of Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-20 DOI:10.1177/0957154X241230273
Keijin Yamamura, Toshiya Murai
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Abstract

It is widely recognized that Emil Kraepelin explicitly advocated for eugenic ideas in his academic works. Given the renewed interest in related concepts such as self-domestication and neo-Lamarckism in different contexts, this article revisits his eugenic arguments by scrutinizing a section of his seminal work, the 8th edition of his textbook published in 1909. Our analysis reveals that Kraepelin's arguments consisted of multiple theories and ideas prevalent at the time (i.e. self-domestication hypothesis, neo-Lamarckism, degeneration theory, social Darwinism, racism and ethnic nationalism), each of which presented individual fundamental claims. Nevertheless, Kraepelin amalgamated them into one combined narrative, which crystallized into an anti-humanistic psychiatry in the next generation. This paper cautions that a similar 'packaging of ideas' might be emerging now.

重温埃米尔-克拉佩林的优生论点
人们普遍认为,埃米尔-克拉佩林在其学术著作中明确倡导优生思想。鉴于人们在不同背景下对自我阉割和新拉马克主义等相关概念的重新关注,本文通过仔细研究他的开创性著作--1909 年出版的教科书第 8 版--的一部分内容,重新审视了他的优生论点。我们的分析表明,克拉佩林的论点由当时流行的多种理论和观点(即自我驯化假说、新拉马克主义、退化理论、社会达尔文主义、种族主义和种族民族主义)组成,每种理论和观点都提出了各自的基本主张。尽管如此,克拉佩林还是将它们合并成了一个综合叙事,并在下一代具体化为反人本主义的精神病学。本文警告说,类似的 "思想包装 "现在可能正在出现。
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期刊介绍: History of Psychiatry publishes research articles, analysis and information across the entire field of the history of mental illness and the forms of medicine, psychiatry, cultural response and social policy which have evolved to understand and treat it. It covers all periods of history up to the present day, and all nations and cultures.
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