Pathologist of the Mind

Pathologist of the Mind
Title Pathologist of the Mind PDF eBook
Author S. D. Lamb
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 330
Release 2014-11-20
Genre Medical
ISBN 1421414856

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Illuminating the contributions of Adolf Meyer, the pioneering father of modern American psychiatry. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL During the first half of the twentieth century, Adolf Meyer was the most authoritative and influential psychiatrist in the United States. In 1908, when the Johns Hopkins Hospital established the first American university clinic devoted to psychiatry—still a nascent medical specialty at the time—Meyer was selected to oversee the enterprise. The Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic opened in 1913, and Meyer served as psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins until 1941. In Pathologist of the Mind, S. D. Lamb explores how Meyer used his powerful position to establish psychiatry as a clinical science that operated like the other specialties at the country’s foremost medical school and research hospital. In addition to successfully arguing for a scientific and biological approach to mental illness, Meyer held extraordinary sway over state policies regarding the certification of psychiatrists. He also trained hundreds of specialists who ultimately occupied leadership positions and made significant contributions in psychiatry, neurology, experimental psychology, social work, and public health. Although historians have long recognized Meyer’s authority, his concepts and methods have never before received a systematic historical analysis. Pathologist of the Mind aims to rediscover Meyerian psychiatry by eavesdropping on Meyer’s informal and intimate conversations with patients and colleagues. Weaving together private correspondence and uniquely detailed case histories, Lamb examines Meyer’s efforts to institute a clinical science of psychiatry in the United States—one that harmonized the expectations of scientific medicine with his concept of the person as a biological organism and mental illness as an adaptive failure. The first historian ever granted access to these exceptional medical records, Lamb offers a compelling new perspective on the integral but misunderstood legacy of Adolf Meyer.

Pathologist of the Mind

Pathologist of the Mind
Title Pathologist of the Mind PDF eBook
Author S. D. Lamb
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 330
Release 2014-11-20
Genre Medical
ISBN 1421414848

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During the first half of the twentieth century, Adolf Meyer was the most authoritative and influential psychiatrist in the United States. This book explores how Meyer used his powerful position to establish psychiatry as a clinical science that operated like the other academic disciplines at the country's foremost medical school.

The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind

The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind
Title The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind PDF eBook
Author Henry Maudsley
Publisher
Pages 478
Release 1872
Genre Insanity (Law)
ISBN

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The Pathology of Mind

The Pathology of Mind
Title The Pathology of Mind PDF eBook
Author Henry Maudsley
Publisher
Pages 608
Release 1879
Genre Mental illness
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On the Heels of Ignorance

On the Heels of Ignorance
Title On the Heels of Ignorance PDF eBook
Author Owen Whooley
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 311
Release 2019-04-23
Genre Psychology
ISBN 022661641X

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Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knots, often invoking the latest medical science in doing so. But, as Owen Whooley’s sweeping new book tells us, the history of American psychiatry is really a record of ignorance. On the Heels of Ignorance begins with psychiatry’s formal inception in the 1840s and moves through two centuries of constant struggle simply to define and redefine mental illness, to say nothing of the best way to treat it. Whooley’s book is no antipsychiatric screed, however; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving. On the Heels of Ignorance draws from intellectual history and the sociology of professions to portray an ongoing human effort to make sense of complex mental phenomena using an imperfect set of tools, with sometimes tragic results.

Brain, Body, and Mind

Brain, Body, and Mind
Title Brain, Body, and Mind PDF eBook
Author Walter Glannon
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 268
Release 2011-04-29
Genre Medical
ISBN 0199875898

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This book is a discussion of the most timely and contentious issues in the two branches of neuroethics: the neuroscience of ethics; and the ethics of neuroscience. Drawing upon recent work in psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery, it develops a phenomenologically inspired theory of neuroscience to explain the brain-mind relation. The idea that the mind is shaped not just by the brain but also by the body and how the human subject interacts with the environment has significant implications for free will, moral responsibility, and moral justification of actions. It also provides a better understanding of how different interventions in the brain can benefit or harm us. In addition, the book discusses brain imaging techniques to diagnose altered states of consciousness, deep-brain stimulation to treat neuropsychiatric disorders, and restorative neurosurgery for neurodegenerative diseases. It examines the medical and ethical trade-offs of these interventions in the brain when they produce both positive and negative physical and psychological effects, and how these trade-offs shape decisions by physicians and patients about whether to provide and undergo them.

Disease of the Mind

Disease of the Mind
Title Disease of the Mind PDF eBook
Author Charles Follen Folsom
Publisher
Pages 128
Release 1877
Genre
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