Clinical psychiatry in imperial Germany : a history of psychiatric practice / Eric J. Engstrom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Engstrom, Eric J.

Series:

Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry--Germany--History--19th century.

Psychiatry.

Mental illness--Germany--History--19th century.

Mental illness.

Psychiatry--history.

History.

Germany.

History, 19th Century.

Mental Disorders--history.

Medical Subjects:

Psychiatry--history.

Germany.

History, 19th Century.

Mental Disorders--history.

Physical Description:

xii, 295 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.

Contents:

Economies of Power and Knowledge

Histories of Psychiatry

Professional Tasks and Jurisdictions

Terminology

Organization

Chapter 2. The Topography of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry 16

Introduction: Psychiatry in the New Era

The Asylum

Medicalization and Specialization

Psychiatric Nosology

Overcrowding

Psychiatry in the Public Mind's Eye

Professional Journals

Professional Associations

Psychiatric Training

Chapter 3. Wilhelm Griesinger's Reform Program: The Politics of the Urban Asylum 51

Griesinger Contested

Griesinger's Reform Program

Griesinger's Theory: A Gateway to Laboratory Research

The Debate on Non-Restraint and Clinical Research

The Politics of Clinical Instruction

The Charite Administration and Griesinger's Call to Berlin

The Conditions of Didactic Efficacy

The Politics of Prophylaxis

Poor Relief and Psychiatric Administration in Berlin

The Local Implications of Griesinger's Reform Program

Class and Clinical Psychiatry

Clinical Psychiatry between 'Armenfursorge' and 'Sociale Fursorge'

Chapter 4. Laboratory Science: Psychiatric Research in the 1870s and 1880s 88

Scientific Medicine: Developments in Physiology and Anatomy

Disciplining the Observer: Microscopy and Necroscopy

Psychiatric Autopsies

Scientific Psychiatry in a Neuropathological Key

Laboratory Work

Alienist Responses to Scientific Psychiatry

Progressive Paralysis

Eduard Hitzig's Electrophysiology

The Politics of the Psychiatric Cadaver

Chapter 5. Bedside Science: Clinical Research in Heidelberg 121

Neuropathology in Retreat

Back to the Beside: Clinical Research Resurgent

Clinical Discipline

Diagnostic Examinations and the Hierarchies of Clinical Observation

The Surveillance Ward (Wachabteilung)

Emil Kraepelin's Reorganization of the Heidelberg Clinic

Psychiatric Care in Baden

Disposing Clinical Means: On the Arrangement of Psychiatric Files and Bodies

Diagnostic Cards and the Extension of Clinical Discipline

The Clinical Utility of Prognosis

Clinics as Diagnostic Transit Stations

Chapter 6. Clinical Teaching 147

Early Medical and Psychiatric Education

Otto Binswanger and "The Educational Tasks of the Psychiatric Clinic"

The Conditions and Disciplinary Practice of Clinical Demonstration

State Licensing Examinations (Approbation)

The Petitions of 1892 and 1893

The Binswanger-Schultze Dispute

Fabricating Psychiatric Sentinels

Chapter 7. Social Prophylaxis: Psychiatric Polyclinics 174

A New Generation of Psychiatrists

Professionals in the Public Eye: Anti-Psychiatry in the 1890s

Poor Laws and Protestant Welfare Agencies

The Kreuzzeitung Article

The Mellage Trial and Prussian Reforms of 1895

Revamping the Profession's Image

Psychiatric Polyclinics

The Professional Utility of Polyclinics

Social Prophylaxis and Borderline States

Chapter 8. Conclusion: Clinical Psychiatry and the Politics of Professional Practice 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-289) and index.

ISBN:

0801441951

OCLC:

53014061