Healing the Mind A History of Psychiatry from Antiquity to the Present

by Stone, Michael H.

• ISBN13: 9780393702224
• ISBN10: 0393702227
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The history of psychiatry concerns efforts to identify, diagnose, and contain or treat these "wild," "mad," or "insane" people. This book starts with the Greeks 2,500 years ago and ends with a detailed look at current developments and trends.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(2)
Prologue: The Role of Religion in Healing the Mind	xi
PART I. THE EARLY PERIOD: 100 B.C.-FIFTEENTH CENTURY	3	(30)
1. A Long and Winding Road: From Old Testament Times to Early Christianity	3	(14)
2. Descent into Darkness: From the Middle Ages to the Inquisition	17	(10)
PART II. THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN PSYCHIATRY: SIXTEENTH THROUGH NINETEENTH CENTURIES	27	(110)
3. Rumblings of Revolution: The Sixteenth Century	27	(7)
4. Firm Foundations in Empiricism and Classification: The Seventeenth Century	34	(18)
5. The Eighteenth Century: The Rise of Rationality	52	(19)
6. Nineteenth-Century Germany: From Romanticism to Empiricism	71	(16)
7. Nineteenth-Century France: Efforts toward Systemizing Illness	87	(17)
8. Nineteenth Century Britain: Interests in Taxonomy and Heredity	104	(13)
9. Nineteenth-Century America: Modern Psychiatry Emerges with Technology	117	(12)
10. Italy, Russia, and Spain in the Nineteenth Century: Contributions from Less Active Areas	129	(8)
PART III. MODERN PSYCHIATRY: 1900-1959	137	(84)
11. 1900-1929: An Era of Expansion	137	(20)
12. 1930-1949: Persecution and War Cause Many Psychiatrists to Emigrate from Europe	157	(18)
13. 1950-1959: Developments in the United States Become Prominent	175	(26)
PART IV. THE 1960s	201	(38)
14. The Renaissance of Biological Psychiatry and the Diversification of Psychotherapy	201	(19)
15. Biological Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Genetics	220	(13)
PART V. THE 1970s	239	(60)
16. The Flourishing of Objectifiable Science	239	(17)
17. General and Hospital Psychiatry	256	(10)
18. Biological Psychiatry and Genetics	266	(9)
19. Child Psychiatry	275	(11)
20. Neo-Darwinian Ethology: A New Look at the Human "Game Plan"	286	(13)
PART VI. RECENT TRENDS: 1980-1996	299	(128)
Introduction	299	(2)
21. Biometrics, Taxonomy, Epidemiology: Progress in Measurement	301	(8)
22. Psychoanalysis: A Work in Progress	309	(11)
23. General Psychiatry: Psychiatry Becomes a Worldwide Enterprise	320	(17)
24. Hospital Psychiatry: The Movement toward Briefer Hospital Stays and Greater Use of Alternative Programs	337	(9)
25. Personality Disorders: The Study of Personality as a Rapid-Growth Industry	346	(14)
26. Biological Psychiatry	360	(22)
27. Child Psychiatry	382	(12)
28. Forensic Psychiatry	394	(21)
29. Other Recent Developments	415	(12)
Postscript: Twenty-First Century Trends	427	(5)
Timeline and Chronology	432	(19)
Bibliography	451	(32)
Index	483