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}
{"title":"The work of Donald Ewen Cameron: from psychic driving to MK Ultra.","authors":"Jordan Torbay","doi":"10.1177/0957154X231163763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X231163763","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Donald Ewen Cameron is known as the Canadian psychiatrist behind the Montreal Experiments, a series of brainwashing experiments. As part of a larger Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project known as MK Ultra, the CIA regarded these experiments as a potential military weapon during the Cold War. However, a closer look into Cameron's research and project MK Ultra shows that these experiments began long before Cameron was contacted by the CIA. Additionally, Cameron received funding for his experiments indirectly, so he was probably never aware the money was from the CIA. In this paper, I analyse the published work of Dr Cameron from the beginning of his career to his role in MK Ultra, and evaluate his own possible reasoning behind these experiments.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"34 3","pages":"320-330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10443815/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10138962","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":"Attempted suicide in older people in New South Wales, Australia, 1870-1908.","authors":"Brian Draper","doi":"10.1177/0957154X231168956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X231168956","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines attempted suicide in older people between 1870 and 1908 in (NSW), Australia. Statistical Registers of NSW indicate persons aged 60+ had disproportionately high rates of apprehension (10.9%) and conviction (13.0%) for attempted suicide. Newspaper reports of 110 suicide attempts in older people indicate that alcohol misuse, poor health, depression, being tired of living, financial problems, relationship difficulties, loss events and insanity were the main issues. Most were treated compassionately with medical care and support, albeit sometimes in a gaol setting. Medical casebooks of persons aged 60+ years with suicide attempts (n = 49) or suicidal ideation (n = 43) admitted to hospitals for the insane indicated that over 75% were psychotic and 50% had melancholia.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"34 3","pages":"305-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/dc/70/10.1177_0957154X231168956.PMC10443651.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10520475","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":"Naming psychiatry: apropos earliest use of the term by Karl Friedrich Burdach (1800).","authors":"Diederik F Janssen","doi":"10.1177/0957154X231167330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X231167330","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The term psychiatry (<i>Psychiatrie</i>) was first used in 1800, in the early work of Leipzig Romantic natural philosopher and later neuroanatomist Karl Friedrich Burdach; it was a recherché reference to medical animism. This little-known instance of neologism by a young ambitious author invites a brief lexicological study of psychiatry as a specialty in search of its place among the medical specialties, methods and applications. The European historical lexicology of <i>psychiatry</i> recalls the philosophical commentary tradition on Aristotle's <i>De Anima</i>, eventually (<i>c</i>. 1525) honoured with the mononym <i>psychologia</i>. The battle for the soul's science was superseded by the increasingly diverse theoretical, empirical, forensic and literary-humanitarian interests in mental medicine during the second half of the eighteenth century.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"34 3","pages":"231-248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/05/04/10.1177_0957154X231167330.PMC10443528.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10204445","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":"George Wallett, 1775-1845: entrepreneur and asylum doctor.","authors":"Peter Carpenter","doi":"10.1177/0957154X231167278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X231167278","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>George Wallett (1775-1845) is generally known only as Haslam's successor at Bethlem who resigned under the cloud of corruption. However, his life proves to have been more eventful. He trained as a lawyer and doctor, enlisted in the army three times and bottled Malvern's first soda water. After bankruptcy, he managed Pembroke House Asylum as it opened, held two jobs in Bethlem and then operated Surrey House Asylum in Battersea. He moved on to help set up the Suffolk and Dorset asylums, and designed the Leicestershire asylum. He finally designed and opened Northampton Asylum, where being a Catholic ended his career.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"34 3","pages":"331-349"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10520916","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":"Biocultural psychopathology as a new epistemology for mental disorders.","authors":"Caio Maximino","doi":"10.1177/0957154X231168080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X231168080","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychopathology has been criticized for decades for its reliance on a brain-centred and over-reductionist approach which views mental disorders as disease-like natural kinds. While criticisms of brain-centred psychopathologies abound, these criticisms sometimes ignore important advances in the neurosciences which view the brain as embodied, embedded, extended and enactive, and as fundamentally plastic. A new onto-epistemology for mental disorders is proposed, focusing on a biocultural model, in which human brains are understood as embodied and embedded in ecosocial niches, and with which individuals enact particular transactions characterized by circular causality. In this approach, neurobiological bases are inseparable from interpersonal and socio-cultural factors. This approach leads to methodological changes in how mental disorders are studied and dealt with.</p>","PeriodicalId":45965,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychiatry","volume":"34 3","pages":"262-272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10148982","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}