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Anatomy Of Madness Vol 1

By W F Bynum, Michael Shepherd, Roy Porter Copyright 2004

    This is a collection of essays on the history of Psychiatry. Volume I of three, offers works around people and ideas including those of Samuel Johnson, Jon Conolly, Descartes, Freud, Darwin and Hamlet. Most of the papers in these volumes arose from a seminar series on the history of psychiatry and a one-day seminar on the same theme held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, during the academic year 1982-83.

    Introduction, 1 Good madness in Christendom 2 Descartes, dualism, and psychosomatic medicine 3 'The Hunger of Imagination': approaching Samuel Johnson's Melancholy 4 The nervous patient in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain: the psychiatric origins of British neurology 5 A Victorian alienist: John Conolly, FRCP, DCL (I794-I866) 6 Darwin and the face of madness 7 Obsessional disorders during the nineteenth century: terminological and classificatory issues 8 Degeneration and hereditarianism in French mental medicine I840-90 9 Psychical research and psychiatry in late Victorian Britain: trance as ecstasy or trance as insanity 10 Contracting the disease of love: authority and freedom in the origins of psychoanalysis 11 Freud's cases: the clinical basis of psychoanalysis 12 Hamlet on the Couch

    Biography

    W.F. Bynum is Head of the joint Academic Unit for the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and University College London. Roy Porter is Senior Lecturer at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. Michael Shepherd is Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry and Honorary Director, General Practice Research Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London.

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