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A Critical History of Schizophrenia / by Kieran McNally.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNally, Kieran., Author.
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology, 2946-2460
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology.
- Social sciences--History.
- Social sciences.
- Clinical psychology.
- Critical psychology.
- Science--History.
- Science.
- Psychology, Pathological.
- Psychiatry.
- History of Psychology.
- Clinical Psychology.
- Critical Psychology.
- History of Science.
- Psychopathology.
- Local Subjects:
- History of Psychology.
- Clinical Psychology.
- Critical Psychology.
- History of Science.
- Psychopathology.
- Psychiatry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (IX, 269 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Schizophrenia was psychiatry's arch concept of madness in the twentieth century. However, it was a concept that was both surprisingly problematic and contentious. This book explores schizophrenia's instability, as the concept changed across the 20th century. It moves beyond sensational accounts of kids on LSD and split personalities, to detail schizophrenia's historically problematic definition, diagnosis, and symptom profile. In doing so, Kieran McNally documents the social uses of the concept, its regional variations, and its fluctuating subtypes. And finally, the book explains how, and why, North American psychiatry sought to improve the concept in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), by introducing group sanctioned operational definitions. This book reveals a tradition of critical unease towards the concept of schizophrenia and it reveals that criticism of the concept was consistently voiced by many leading schizophrenia researchers - andnot just by 'anti-psychiatrists'. It becomes clear that at no stage in its history was schizophrenia thought to be beyond improvement.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137456816
- 1137456817
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