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Lucy Jane King - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • A Brief History of Psychiatry: Millennia Past and Present. Part IV
    Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 1999
    Co-Authors: Lucy Jane King
    Abstract:

    Biological scientists have been trying to look inside the black box of the brain since the middle of the nineteenth century. Techniques in many disciplines were being developed in the last century that would lead beyond philosophical speculation about the mind/body relation and the meaning of insanity. Only in the last several years have molecular biology and the beginnings of understanding of its relation to mind, body, behavior, and the human environment made it possible to start to find solutions to some of the problems. Neurobiology, psychology, and sociology now seem much more closely related, albeit in enormously complex ways.

  • A Brief History of Psychiatry: Millennia Past and Present—Part III
    Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 1999
    Co-Authors: Lucy Jane King
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    Release of emotion through a variety of means has often been seen as healing. Throughout the centuries many cultures dealt with stress by bringing relief through methods like dancing, ritual, or confession. The idea of discovering not always conscious emotions and their release through talking became important in 19th-century psychological treatments. The 20th century has seen a flowering of psychoanalytical, behavioral, cognitive behavioral, and many other psychotherapies. These have been used in individual, group, or martial/family settings, inpatient and outpatient. There have been disagreements between and among the various schools of psychotherapy. As we approach the next century, therapists of all schools are discussing ways in which each therapy contributes to helping patients and are defining common threads that link all the approaches to psychotherapy.

  • A Brief History of Psychiatry: Millennia Past and Present—Part II
    Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 1999
    Co-Authors: Lucy Jane King
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    Institutional treatment of psychiatric disorders dates back at least to the time of Hippocrates, when there were efforts to improve patients' general health in pleasant surroundings. Institutions for the mentally ill and for abusers of addicting substances have varied through the centuries from squalid conditions to surroundings meant to improve psychological and social well being. In the eighteenth-century, Pinel, Rush, and others assumed that environmental changes could affect psychological states and alter behavior. Twentieth century debate has been concerned with whether or not patients are better treated in hospitals or in the community. Currently, the focus on minimizing health care costs has emphasized often-valuable intensive and not so intensive outpatient programs, almost to the exclusion of sometimes-necessary inpatient hospitalization. Contemporary social and political trends inside and outside the mental health professions include attempts to modify this emphasis and to focus on the specific needs of individual patients.

  • A Brief History of Psychiatry: Millennia Past and Present
    Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 1999
    Co-Authors: Lucy Jane King
    Abstract:

    As a new millennium dawns, it is worth looking at where we have been and where we are going. In an age in which the only constant is change, the only new thing, in fact, is technology. In Psychiatry there are promises of advances in diagnosis with search of the human genome, in the development of newer pharmacological agents through molecular biology, and in better understanding of psychosocial treatment using sophisticated contemporary research techniques. These represent extensions of theories about mind, disease, and treatment reaching back into antiquity. Many excellent books and a multiplicity of articles have been published in the 1990s about the History of all of these areas. This series of four articles will provide a selective summary of that literature and an up-to-date guide to the History of Psychiatry.

Eric J Engstrom - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • History of Psychiatry and its institutions
    Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2012
    Co-Authors: Eric J Engstrom
    Abstract:

    PURPOSE of REVIEW: The purpose of this review is to highlight recent English-language literature on the History of psychiatric institutions. It considers work published since 2010, as well as a few important older articles that have not yet been reviewed in these pages. RECENT FINDINGS: Developments in the last half of the 20th century suggest that psychiatric historiography might finally be able to put the mental asylum behind it. Deinstitutionalization and the diffusion of professional jurisdictions seem to have consigned institutional histories to the methodological dustbin. But these transformations have also opened new perspectives on the institutional History of Psychiatry and its methodologies. This review reflects on some of the enduring historiographic potential and importance of evidence drawn from institutional settings. SUMMARY: As carceral narratives have begun to lose their paradigmatic status within psychiatric historiography, a much more nuanced picture of asylum culture is becoming visible. The History of psychiatric institutions remains an integral and productive part of psychiatric historiography.

  • cultural and social History of Psychiatry
    Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2008
    Co-Authors: Eric J Engstrom
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    Purpose of reviewThe purpose of this review is to highlight recent English language literature in the cultural and social History of Psychiatry. It considers publications from 2007 and early 2008, as well as a few important older works that have not yet been reviewed in this journal.Recent findingsC

  • Beyond dogma and discipline: new directions in the History of Psychiatry
    Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2006
    Co-Authors: Eric J Engstrom
    Abstract:

    Purpose of review The purpose of this review is to highlight recent literature in the History of Psychiatry. It considers publications from 2005 to 2006, as well as a few important older works that have not yet been reviewed in these pages. Recent findings The title of this review essay, ‘Beyond Dogma and Discipline,’ points toward new research that moves beyond the kind of blanket valorizations of Psychiatry's past (be they pejorative or laudatory) that had become so commonplace in historiographic discourse. This review surveys new directions of historical research in several important areas (social control, community and family care, sociology of professions, psychoanalysis, nosology, psychopharmacology, and self). Recent work has focused on the multilateral and multivalent interactions of Psychiatry with various neighboring disciplines and historical agents, on the integration of psychoanalysis and psychopharmacology into the History of Psychiatry, and on the status of Psychiatry within broader discourses about the self, identity politics, and the History of emotions. Summary One of the most important contributions that the recent work in the History of Psychiatry has to make involves sharpening our awareness of the contingency and cultural embeddedness of psychiatric knowledge and practice across different domains of time and space.

F Oyebode - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • History of Psychiatry in west africa
    International Review of Psychiatry, 2006
    Co-Authors: F Oyebode
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    This paper explores the social context of the development of mental asylums in colonial Nigeria. The characteristics of the medical leadership is described, as is the environmental condition of the asylums. The colonial period produced conceptualizations of the African mind and of the pattern and distribution of mental illness in Africans. These conceptualizations are critically examined.

Edward Shorter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • History of Psychiatry
    Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2008
    Co-Authors: Edward Shorter
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    Purpose of review: The present review examines recent contributions to the evolving field of historical writing in Psychiatry. Recent findings: Interest in the History of Psychiatry continues to grow, with an increasing emphasis on topics of current interest such as the History of psychopharmacology, electroconvulsive therapy, and the interplay between Psychiatry and society. The scope of historical writing in Psychiatry as of 2007 is as broad and varied as the discipline itself. Summary: More than in other medical specialties such as cardiology or nephrology, treatment and diagnosis in Psychiatry are affected by trends in the surrounding culture and society. Studying the History of the discipline provides insights into possible alternatives to the current crop of patent-protected remedies and trend-driven diagnoses.

Allan Beveridge - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Relevance of the History of Psychiatry to practising clinicians
    Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 2018
    Co-Authors: Allan Beveridge
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    Do busy psychiatrists need to pay any attention to the History of their discipline? Surely clinicians should concentrate on keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in their field. Medical History may provide amusing anecdotes about practice in the past, but can it inform modern treatment? Such a response, although familiar, seems rather strange, coming from psychiatrists, who, after all, spend their clinical day, taking 'histories'. By doing so, they seek to understand their patients' problems in the context

  • The History of Psychiatry: personal reflections.
    Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2014
    Co-Authors: Allan Beveridge
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    Does an engagement with the History of Psychiatry benefit the practising clinician? This paper adopts a personal perspective. It sketches the ideological conflicts which have raged in the study of the History of Psychiatry in recent decades and looks at the often heated debates between historians and psychiatrists on the subject. It looks at the author's involvement with the subject and considers how this may have influenced both clinical practice and the approach to History. The paper then considers the author's work in the field and the interplay between historical theory and clinical practice. It concludes that studying the History of their subject can make doctors more reflective about their work.

  • reading about the History of Psychiatry
    British Journal of Psychiatry, 2012
    Co-Authors: Allan Beveridge
    Abstract:

    In recent decades ideological battles have raged over how the History of Psychiatry should be interpreted. Should the emergence of Psychiatry in the late 18th century be seen as the triumph of the Enlightenment, ushering in a rational approach to mental illness and overturning the primitive and