A Critical History of Schizophrenia: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology

Author: Kieran McNally
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Category: Psychology, Psychological Theory & Schools Of Thought, Abnormal Psychology, History Of Medicine, Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, History Of Science
Book Format: Hardcover

Schizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry's arch concept of madness. Yet for most of that century it was both problematic and contentious. This history explores schizophrenia's historic instability via themes such as symptoms, definition, classification and anti-psychiatry. In doing so, it opens up new ways of understanding 20th century madness.

Kieran McNally

Table Of Contents
Introduction
1. Schizodia: The Lexicon
2. The Split Personality
3. Definitions of Schizophrenia
4. Catatonia: Faces in the Fire
5. Chasing the Phantom: Classification
6. Myth and Forgetting: Bleuler's Four As
7. Social Prejudice
8. Contesting Schizophrenia?
9. Manufacturing Consensus in North America
10. 20th Century Schizophrenia
Epilogue: Consider Nijinsky
Appendix A: Goodbye to Hebephrenia
About Kieran McNally
Kieran McNally previously studied and worked at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK. He is currently Adjunct Lecturer in Psychology at University College Dublin, Ireland, specializing in the history of psychiatry. He is also the author of the ecological and social history, The Island Imagined by the Sea.

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Artist / Author Kieran McNally
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