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| Genre/Form: | Case studies |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Noll |
| ISBN: | 9780674047396 0674047397 |
| OCLC Number: | 708544392 |
| Description: | 395 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Richard Noll. |
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Between 1895 and the 1930s, tens of thousands of Americans were diagnosed with dementia praecox--an "incurable" psychosis described by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin. The diagnoses then petered out. Psychologist Richard Noll traces the trajectory of this near-forgotten disorder, showing how it became the first specified disease of psychiatry, legitimizing that field's place in medicine. Noll also shows how the debates today around the successor to dementia praecox, schizophrenia, are leading to a trend in psychiatry towards diagnoses that could fit better with genetics. Nature 20111027 Noll's historical analysis of the difficulties faced by clinicians treating mental illness sensitively bridges the distance between cultural construction of disease concepts and the experience of clinical practice. -- Scott Vieira Library Journal 20111013 The wonderful book, American Madness, [is] an artful analysis of the rise and fall of the label "dementia praecox" from its promising birth in 1896 to its unlamented death in 1927...Though set in the past, the lessons of this book are as fresh as the controversies over the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5) and the very future of psychiatry. -- Allen Frances New Scientist 20111210 Noll is adept at portraying both the human and sociological sides of this story...[A] capacious narrative. -- Evan McMurry Bookslut 20111101 There is something about the U.S. mania for madness that needs understanding, as it imperils us all. Noll clearly had to write this book. -- David Healy Times Higher Education 20111208 Read more...
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- Schizophrenia -- United States -- Case studies.
- Schizophrenia -- Treatment -- United States -- History.
- Schizophrenia -- history -- United States.
- Schizophrenia -- therapy -- United States.
- Biological Psychiatry -- history -- United States.
- History, 20th Century -- United States.
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