Stephan Heckers, K. Kendler, Astrid Klee, Stephan Heckers
{"title":"‘Regarding the scientific viewpoint in psychiatry’, lecture by Carl Wernicke (1880)","authors":"Stephan Heckers, K. Kendler, Astrid Klee, Stephan Heckers","doi":"10.1177/0957154X221075240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X221075240","url":null,"abstract":"In 1880 Carl Wernicke gave this plenary lecture at an annual meeting of German physicians and natural scientists. He used principles from his 1874 aphasia monograph to build a neural model of mental illness. He proposed that the brain keeps a record of experiences in distinct areas of the sensory and motor cortices in the form of memory images, which allows for recognition of objects and the planning of motor acts. He conjectured that imperfections, partial defects and complete loss of such memory images lead, respectively, to mild, moderate and severe forms of psychopathology in sensory and motor realms. The lecture is an early presentation of Wernicke’s system of psychiatry. Several of his concepts have remained relevant in contemporary neuroscience.","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"33 1","pages":"236 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43763467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing Chineseness: neurasthenia and psychiatry in Taiwan in the second half of the twentieth century","authors":"Wen-Ji Wang","doi":"10.1177/0957154X221087410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X221087410","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigates the role of Taiwanese psychiatrists in turning neurasthenia into a culture-specific disease in the late twentieth century. It first delineates the shift in both explanatory models of psychoneuroses and patient population in post-World War II Taiwan. Neurasthenia became a focus of international attention in the 1970s and 1980s with the advance of cultural psychiatry, and, as China was closed to the outside world, Taiwanese psychiatrists were influential in framing the cultural meaning of neurasthenia. With the rise of post-socialist China, Taiwan lost its status as a key laboratory of Chinese studies. This paper argues that the history of neurasthenia during the period was closely associated with the professional development and national identity of Taiwanese psychiatrists.","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"33 1","pages":"263 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42507620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
History of PsychiatryPub Date : 2022-03-01Epub Date: 2021-12-13DOI: 10.1177/0957154X211062517
Marvin W Acklin, Peter Tokofsky, Reneau Kennedy, Peter Tokofsky, Marvin W Acklin
{"title":"Ludwig Binswanger's Comments on Hermann Rorschach's <i>Psychodiagnostik</i>.","authors":"Marvin W Acklin, Peter Tokofsky, Reneau Kennedy, Peter Tokofsky, Marvin W Acklin","doi":"10.1177/0957154X211062517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X211062517","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents an introduction to Ludwig Binswanger's Comments on Hermann Rorschach's <i>Psychodiagnostik</i>, published in the <i>International Journal of Psychoanalysis</i> in 1923, after Rorschach's death in 1922. Binswanger, one of the most distinguished psychiatrists of the twentieth century and a close professional colleague and compatriot in the Swiss Psychiatric and Psychoanalytic Societies, was blazing new trails by incorporating turn-of-the-century phenomenology and experimental psychology into Swiss psychiatry. His comments, which have been noted for over 100 years but never before translated, are a critical review of Rorschach's monograph, highlighting the undeveloped status of the test theory and philosophical foundations. Binswanger's comments illuminate philosophical, conceptual and scientific pathways not taken in the development of the test following Rorschach's untimely demise.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"33 1","pages":"107-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39723079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
History of PsychiatryPub Date : 2022-03-01Epub Date: 2021-12-13DOI: 10.1177/0957154X211053208
Toby Raeburn, Kayla Sale, Paul Saunders, Aunty Kerrie Doyle
{"title":"Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788-1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents.","authors":"Toby Raeburn, Kayla Sale, Paul Saunders, Aunty Kerrie Doyle","doi":"10.1177/0957154X211053208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X211053208","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Past histories charting interactions between British healthcare and Aboriginal Australians have tended to be dominated by broad histological themes such as invasion and colonization. While such descriptions have been vital to modernization and truth telling in Australian historical discourse, this paper investigates the nineteenth century through the modern cultural lens of mental health. We reviewed primary documents, including colonial diaries, church sermons, newspaper articles, medical and burial records, letters, government documents, conference speeches and anthropological journals. Findings revealed six overlapping fields which applied British ideas about mental health to Aboriginal Australians during the nineteenth century. They included military invasion, religion, law, psychological systems, lunatic asylums, and anthropology.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"33 1","pages":"3-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39721737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
History of PsychiatryPub Date : 2022-03-01Epub Date: 2021-12-20DOI: 10.1177/0957154X211062513
Aoibheann McLoughlin
{"title":"The Goldwater Rule: a bastion of a bygone era?","authors":"Aoibheann McLoughlin","doi":"10.1177/0957154X211062513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X211062513","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In tandem with the changing political landscape in recent years, interest in the Goldwater Rule has re-emerged within psychiatric discourse. Initiated in 1973, the Goldwater Rule is an ethical code specific to psychiatry created by the American Psychiatric Association in response to events surrounding the USA presidential election of 1964, in which the integrity of the psychiatric profession was challenged. Current detractors view the rule as an antiquated entity which obfuscates psychiatric pragmatism and progression. Proponents underscore its role in maintaining both respectful objectivity and diagnostic integrity within the psychiatric assessment process. This essay aims to explore the origin of the rule, and critique its applicability to modern-day psychiatric practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"33 1","pages":"87-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/e3/ba/10.1177_0957154X211062513.PMC8886301.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39742758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
History of PsychiatryPub Date : 2022-03-01Epub Date: 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/0957154X211047805
Anastassiya Schacht
{"title":"Power in psychiatry. Soviet peer and lay hierarchies in the context of political abuse of psychiatry.","authors":"Anastassiya Schacht","doi":"10.1177/0957154X211047805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X211047805","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Soviet political abuse of psychiatry in the Brezhnevite era offers a rich case study of entanglement between various layers, impact spaces, and actors of power. This article discusses two types of discursive power in Soviet psychiatry. One sprang from the madness-affirmative cultural canon, in which dissidents sought their self-legitimation. More prominently, there was the power of psychiatrists within their own hierarchic system. I analyse how the action scopes for psychiatric power varied, depending on whether the recipient was a patient or fellow professional. Here, the inherent hierarchy structured and regulated the peer community and secured the stability of medical practices - and of the political entanglement of these practices and actors with the state-owned places of power.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"33 1","pages":"21-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/58/f5/10.1177_0957154X211047805.PMC8886302.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39476473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
History of PsychiatryPub Date : 2022-03-01Epub Date: 2021-12-22DOI: 10.1177/0957154X211062538
Robert Freudenthal, Joanna Moncrieff
{"title":"'A landmark in psychiatric progress'? The role of evidence in the rise and fall of insulin coma therapy.","authors":"Robert Freudenthal, Joanna Moncrieff","doi":"10.1177/0957154X211062538","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0957154X211062538","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines the evidence behind the use and decline of insulin coma therapy as a treatment for schizophrenia and how this was viewed by the psychiatric profession. The paper demonstrates that, from the time of its introduction, there was considerable debate regarding the evidence for insulin treatment, and scepticism about its purported benefits. The randomized trials conducted in the 1950s were the result, rather than the origins, of this debate. Although insulin treatment was subsequently abandoned, it was still regarded as a historic moment in the modernization of psychiatry. Then, as now, evidence does not speak for itself, and insulin continued to be incorporated into the story of psychiatric progress even after it was shown to be ineffective.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"33 1","pages":"65-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8886299/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39746779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
History of PsychiatryPub Date : 2022-03-01Epub Date: 2022-01-28DOI: 10.1177/0957154X211062539
Åsa Jansson
{"title":"From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry.","authors":"Åsa Jansson","doi":"10.1177/0957154X211062539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X211062539","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>My book <i>From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry</i> charts how melancholia was reconceptualized in the nineteenth century as a modern mood disorder and a precursor to clinical depression. The book shows how this occurred chiefly in two ways. First, the idea of disordered mood as a medical concept was created through the appropriation of language from experimental physiology into the realm of psychopathology. Second, the interplay of statistical and diagnostic practices formed the basis for modern psychiatric classification and facilitated the standardization of melancholia as a psychiatric diagnosis. These developments were key to the reconceptualization of melancholia and the subsequent emergence of clinical depression, and were foundational to modern psychiatric theory and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"33 1","pages":"47-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39964577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
History of PsychiatryPub Date : 2022-03-01Epub Date: 2021-10-29DOI: 10.1177/0957154X211047806
Avi Ohry, Mandy Matthewson
{"title":"Elton Mayo and Thomas Henry Reeve Mathewson: the forgotten Australian pioneers of the treatment of patients with shell shock, neurasthenia and nervous breakdown.","authors":"Avi Ohry, Mandy Matthewson","doi":"10.1177/0957154X211047806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X211047806","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The contributions of Australians on shell shock are absent from the literature. However, two Australians were pioneers in the treatment of shell shock: George Elton Mayo (1880-1949) and Dr Thomas Henry Reeve Mathewson (1881-1975). They used psychoanalytic approaches to treat psychiatric patients and introduced the psychoanalytic treatment of people who suffered from shell shock. Their 'talking cure' was highly successful and challenged the view that shell shock only occurred in men who were malingering and/or lacking in fortitude. Their work demonstrated that people experiencing mental illness could be treated in the community at a time when they were routinely treated as inpatients. It also exemplified the substantial benefits of combining science with clinical knowledge and skill in psychology and psychiatry.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"33 1","pages":"79-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39574935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
History of PsychiatryPub Date : 2022-03-01Epub Date: 2022-01-10DOI: 10.1177/0957154X211062534
Carlo Maggini, Riccardo Dalle Luche
{"title":"An overview on Hebephrenia, a diagnostic cornerstone in the neurodevelopmental model of Schizophrenia.","authors":"Carlo Maggini, Riccardo Dalle Luche","doi":"10.1177/0957154X211062534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X211062534","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pre-Kraepelinian observations converged in Kahlbaum's and Hecker's description of Hebephrenia. For Kraepelin, Hebephrenia was an 'idiopathic incurable dementia whose onset is in adolescence'. It became the core of 'Dementia Praecox', and then Bleulerian 'Schizophrenia'. In recent decades, the resurgence of the 'late neurodevelopment' hypothesis of schizophrenia has brought into focus Hecker's clinical reports of adolescents who, as a result of a putative loss of psychic energy, showed a rapidly progressive cognitive impairment leading to functional and behavioural disorganization. This paper summarizes the nineteenth-century conceptualization of Hebephrenia as a developmental illness.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"33 1","pages":"34-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39658893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}