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American madness : the rise and fall of dementia praecox
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American madness : the rise and fall of dementia praecox

Author: Richard Noll
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...

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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 Read more...

 
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