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McNally, Kieran,
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| Series |
Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology |
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Palgrave studies in the theory and history of psychology.
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| Subject |
Science.
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Schizophrenia -- History.
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Schizophrenia -- history.
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Schizophrenia -- classification.
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Schizophrenic Psychology.
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History, 20th Century.
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| Description |
1 online resource (IX, 269 pages). |
| 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 - and not just by 'anti-psychiatrists'. It becomes clear that at no stage in its history was schizophrenia thought to be beyond improvement. |
| Contents |
Introduction; Schizoidia : the lexicon; The split personality; Definitions of schizophrenia; Catatonia : faces in the fire; Chasing the phantom : classification; Myth and forgetting : Bleuler's 'four As'; Social prejudice; Contesting schizophrenia?; Manufacturing consensus in North America; Conclusions : twentieth-century schizophrenia; Epilogue : consider Nijinsky; Appendix: Goodbye to Hebephrenia; Notes; Further Reading. |
| Access |
Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN |
1137456817 (electronic bk.) |
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9781137456816 (electronic bk.) |
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9781137456809 |
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9781349552269 |
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1349552267 |
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1137456809 |
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9781137456809 |
| ISBN/ISSN |
10.1057/9781137456816 |
| OCLC # |
945740142 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: McNally, Kieran. Critical history of schizophrenia. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 9781137456809 (DLC) 2015028739 (OCoLC)918877406 |
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