American Madness : the Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox /

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In 1895 not a single case of dementia praecox was reported in the United States. By 1912 tens of thousands of people with this diagnosis were locked up in asylums, hospitals, and jails. By 1927 it was fading away. This book explains how such a terrible disease could be discovered, affect so many liv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Noll, Richard, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Schizophrenia > United States > Case studies.
Schizophrenia > Treatment > United States > History.
Schizophrenia > history
Schizophrenia > therapy
Biological Psychiatry > history
History, 20th Century
Schizophrénie > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Schizophrénie > Traitement > États-Unis > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Schizophrenia.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia > Treatment
United States
Case studies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The world of the American alienist, 1896
  • Adolf Meyer brings dementia praecox to America
  • Emil Kraepelin
  • The American reception of dementia praecox and manic
  • Depressive insanity, 1896-1905
  • The lost biological psychiatry
  • The rise of the mind-twist men, 1903-1913
  • Bayard Taylor Holmes and radically rational treatments
  • The rise of schizophrenia in America, 1912-1927.

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