This edited volume of nineteen articles brings for the first time to an English speaking audience the work of important writers in the Spanish, French, and German who note the concepts and treatments of mental disease in the past. Important influence on our modern concepts of mental illness are presented in a fresh perspective.
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This edited volume of nineteen articles brings for the first time to an English speaking audience the work of important writers in the Spanish, French, and German who note the concepts and treatments of mental disease in the past. Important influence on our modern concepts of mental illness are presented in a fresh perspective.
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Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published:
1997
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17735589042
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Good. Ex-library. 1997 hardcover published without jacket/ex-library with usual markings & sunning on the cover/clean & unmarked text. 264 p. The Reshaping of Psychoanalysis, 7.
Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published:
1996
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15791384655
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New. 0820430560. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-264 pages----DESCRIPTION: This edited volume of nineteen articles (SEE TOC BELOW) brings for the first time to an English speaking audience the work of important writers in the Spanish, French, and German who note the concepts and treatments of mental disease in the past. Important influences on our modern concepts of mental illness are presented in a fresh perspective. --TABLE OF CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1 History of the concept of schizophrenia 2 The concept of schizophrenia 3 An examination of the history of concepts of schizophrenia 4 The schizophrenic defect 5 The treatment of the chronic patient 6 Fear and madness 7 Acedia or the depressed between sin and illness 8 Schizophrenia isn't what is used to be 9 The origin of significance of Eugen Bleuler's work: "Dementia praecox: or the group of schizophrenias" 10 Psychic vulnerability 11 The German school of schizophrenia theory and the emigration of psychiatrists from Germany between 1933-1938 12 The concept of madness in classical Greece 13 From insane poor to poor insane: an examination of the insane and insanity in baroque Rome 14 The concept of madness and its implications in Talmudic literature and exegeses 15 Madness and witchcraft in the times of the inquisition in the Rio de Plata 16 Frenzies of possession by the fox of Japan 17 Historical reminiscences: The schizophrenic psychosis of the Empress of Mexico 18 Self-testimony of a schizophrenic about 1800. --with a bonus offer--