Console and Classify

by Goldstein, Jan Ellen

• ISBN13: 9780226301617
• ISBN10: 0226301613
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-02
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Since its publication in 1989,Console and Classifyhas become a classic work in the history of science and in French intellectual history. Now with a new afterword, this much-cited and much-discussed book gives readers the chance to revisit the rise of psychiatry in nineteenth-century France, the shape it took and why, and its importance both then and in contemporary society.

Author Biography

Jan Goldstein is a professor of modern European history and a member of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago. Her other books include Foucault and the Writing of History and two volumes of the Chicago Readings in Western Civilization.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	x
Acknowledgments	xi
List of abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(7)
``Profession'' in context	8	(33)
The corporate model	15	(5)
The statist model	20	(8)
The laissez-faire model	28	(7)
Redefinition	35	(6)
Toward psychiatry	41	(23)
The bureaucracy: health police of the insane	41	(8)
General medical theory: medicine as ``anthropology''	49	(6)
Specialization	55	(9)
The transformation of charlatanism, or the moral treatment	64	(56)
Philippe Pinel: a medical career in political context	67	(5)
Pinel and the ``concierges'': the origins of the moral treatment	72	(8)
What was the moral treatment?	80	(9)
``Scientizing'' the treatment	89	(16)
A therapy for the Revolution	105	(12)
Healthy sentimentality	117	(3)
The politics of patronage	120	(32)
The Pinel circle	122	(6)
The Esquirol circle	128	(19)
The dynamics of recruitment: specialization and the ``doctor glut''	147	(5)
Monomania	152	(45)
The initial definition of the disease	155	(3)
Professional ramifications (I): charting ``mental tendencies''	158	(4)
Professional ramifications (II): the emergence of forensic psychiatry	162	(4)
A boundary dispute with the legal profession	166	(3)
The elusive insanity: its partisans and its varieties	169	(10)
The politicization of the monomania doctrine	179	(5)
The medical defense of monomania and the self-defense of psychiatric specialization	184	(5)
The decline of monomania	189	(8)
Religious roots and rivals	197	(43)
A religious mission to the insane	197	(3)
The moral treatment as religious consolation	200	(10)
The anticlerical current in early medecine mentale	210	(15)
The collaborative possibility	225	(15)
Choosing philosophical sides	240	(36)
The philosophical choice	242	(3)
Medecine mentale and ``physiology''	245	(12)
The inroads of spiritualism	257	(6)
Practical implications of philosophical positions	263	(10)
Some comparative remarks	273	(3)
The Law of 1838 and the asylum system	276	(46)
Lunacy legislation and the constitutional monarchy	277	(8)
The obstacle of interdiction and the theory of isolation	285	(7)
The government's bill: an exercise in ``political medicine''	292	(5)
The establishment of a nationwide asylum system	297	(10)
Assessing the clerical ``threat''	307	(15)
Hysteria, anticlerical politics, and the view beyond the asylum	322	(56)
The hysteria diagnosis and the epidemiology of hysteria	323	(8)
The appropriation of the demi-fou	331	(8)
A profession's progress, 1838--1876	339	(12)
Shifting political configurations, 1838--1876	351	(10)
The anticlerical partnership	361	(17)
Conclusion	378	(7)
Appendix	385	(6)
Bibliographic note	391	(7)
Afterword	398	(18)
Index	416