History of PsychiatryPub Date : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1177/0957154X231196201
Mauricio Viotti Daker
{"title":"Personality and mental disorders: sensitive character, melancholic type, and addenda.","authors":"Mauricio Viotti Daker","doi":"10.1177/0957154X231196201","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0957154X231196201","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A traditional view in psychiatry is that personality disorders or traits are intimately related to primary mental disorders. Psychic functions with common roots might be constitutive of personality and psychosis or other disorders. Hoche held that paranoia, mania and melancholia lie in the normal psyche, and Kraepelin conceded such a view, explicitly implying personality. According to Carl Schneider, endogenous symptom complexes or associations and normal functional associations are fuzzy. Many other psychopathologists emphasize personality characteristics in connection with endogenous or functional psychoses, such as the sensitive and melancholic types. When adopting a continuum view of mental disorders, they behave in a unitary or systemic configuration, corresponding to endogenous-functional dispositions interacting with the milieu and composing personality.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"369-382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41154965","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 : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-07-29DOI: 10.1177/0957154X231187118
Jan Kornaj
{"title":"Approaching Polish madness: concepts and treatment of psychosis in Polish psychiatry of the inter-war period.","authors":"Jan Kornaj","doi":"10.1177/0957154X231187118","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0957154X231187118","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The institutional organization of psychiatry in Poland when it became independent faced the problem of the integration of three ex-partition territories having different laws, health-care systems and psychiatric cultures. Due to the high incidence of mental health problems, among which psychosis was the most frequent, psychiatric care facilities had to be organized as quickly and efficiently as possible and had to address the issue of psychosis both conceptually and practically. This study investigates the concept of psychosis and methods of its treatment in inter-war Polish psychiatric care facilities in relation to the sociocultural context of the institutional organization of psychiatry in Poland and the influence of major European concepts and treatment practices regarding psychoses.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"397-416"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9879066","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 : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1177/0957154X231191691
Malin Hildebrand Karlén, Thomas Nilsson
{"title":"Possibly mad? Marital murder in the early twentieth century: a matched-case gender analysis of forensic psychiatric investigations in Sweden.","authors":"Malin Hildebrand Karlén, Thomas Nilsson","doi":"10.1177/0957154X231191691","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0957154X231191691","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study illustrates the impact on forensic psychiatric investigations (FPI) of time-specific scientific theories and moral normative considerations. A comparative historical perspective illustrates historical FPI procedures (i.e. methodology and focus), based on two matched FPI case reports from the 1930s: a man and a woman who had shot their respective spouses. First, in the analysis, a comparison was made between the two cases regarding assessment procedure and focus, applying a gender perspective, and second, stability and change in FPI praxis between the 1930s and the 2020s were identified. Similarities and differences were discussed based on changes in FPI praxis and influence of explanatory models within psychiatry. This can aid understanding of historical bias and indicate current bias and its risks to FPI reliability.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"451-469"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10638847/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41147813","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 : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1177/0957154X231196203
Filippo Besana
{"title":"Danilo Cargnello and his contribution to the development of phenomenological thought: an overview.","authors":"Filippo Besana","doi":"10.1177/0957154X231196203","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0957154X231196203","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Danilo Cargnello was one of the greatest authors of Italian phenomenological psychopathology. He wrote the first articles on the subject in 1947-8, a period in which phenomenological ideas began to spread in Italy. His main contribution was to introduce and disseminate Binswanger's ideas in Italy and to emphasise the anthropological character of <i>Daseinsanalyse</i>. His book analysing results of experimental psychosis constitutes one of the most important and meticulous psychopathological reports of substance-induced psychosis. It is essential to keep alive the knowledge of phenomenological authors such as Cargnello, who are of great clinical and psychopathological relevance, and also to integrate the teachings they have left us into professional training.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"470-475"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10122139","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 : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-07-12DOI: 10.1177/0957154X231181453
Eric J Engstrom
{"title":"Classic Text No. 136 'On the question of unitary psychosis', by Harry Marcuse (1926).","authors":"Eric J Engstrom","doi":"10.1177/0957154X231181453","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0957154X231181453","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In his article 'On the question of unitary psychosis' (1926), Harry Marcuse (1876-1931) undertook a thought experiment in which he challenged clinical psychiatrists to entertain the possibility that the concept of unitary psychosis could be a useful diagnostic and nosological tool. Drawing on the psychology of Friedrich Jodl (1849-1914) and contemporary notions of energeticism, Marcuse proposed a non-empirical, 'analytic' method of overcoming growing dissatisfaction with Kraepelinian categories in the 1910s and 1920s.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"476-493"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9761007","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 : 2023-12-01Epub Date: 2023-09-10DOI: 10.1177/0957154X231194910
Robert Df Nathan
{"title":"The psychopathic hospital.","authors":"Robert Df Nathan","doi":"10.1177/0957154X231194910","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0957154X231194910","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new psychiatric institution emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the psychopathic hospital. This institution represented a significant development in the history of psychiatry, as it marked the profession's reorientation from asylum-based to hospital-based care, and in this way presaged the deinstitutionalization movement that would begin half a century later. Psychopathic hospitals were also an important marker of psychiatry's efforts to redefine its professional boundaries and respond to its vociferous critics. This entailed both a rapprochement with general medicine in an effort to assert its scientific bona fides and a redefinition of its scope of practice to absorb non-certifiable 'borderland' cases in order both to emphasize non-coercive treatment and to enlarge the profession's boundaries.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"417-433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10638845/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10257133","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}
{"title":"What is Psychiatry? Was ist das, die Psychiatrie?","authors":"Ivana S Marková","doi":"10.1177/0957154X231197525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X231197525","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing on Heidegger's method of analysis, the question of what is psychiatry is explored from <i>within</i>. This leads to a conception of psychiatry as a form of interpersonal interaction in which there is a specific reaching out of one <i>Being</i> to another. It is a 'specific reaching out' because, following the recognition through the interaction between <i>Beings</i> that the other is in some form of distress, there is the corresponding need to assuage. The reformulation of psychiatry in this sense is important because it emphasises the unity with which we communicate and interact, and it also serves as a reminder of the need in psychiatry to develop novel methods to undertake research in this complex and constantly evolving field.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"957154X231197525"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71522913","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":"Book Review: Shilpi Rajpal, <i>Curing Madness? A Social and Cultural History of Insanity in Colonial North India, 1800–1950s</i>","authors":"Robert DF Nathan","doi":"10.1177/0957154x231197020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154x231197020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135094901","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":"Book Review: Alice Wexler, <i>The Analyst: A Daughter’s Memoir</i>","authors":"Jesse F Ballenger","doi":"10.1177/0957154x231197019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154x231197019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135351092","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}