American Madness : : The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox /

American Madness : : The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox / / Richard Noll.

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In 1895 there was not a single case of dementia praecox reported in the United States. By 1912 there were tens of thousands of people with this diagnosis locked up in asylums, hospitals, and jails. By 1927 it was fading away . How could such a terrible disease be discovered, affect so many lives, an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011
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Noll, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (406 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. THE WORLD OF THE AMERICAN ALIENIST, 1896
  • 2. ADOLF MEYER BRINGS DEMENTIA PRAECOX TO AMERICA
  • 3. EMIL KRAEPELIN
  • 4. THE AMERICAN RECEPTION OF DEMENTIA PRAECOX AND MANIC DEPRESSIVE INSANITY, 1896-1905
  • 5. THE LOST BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
  • 6. THE RISE OF THE MIND TWIST MEN, 1903-1913
  • 7. BAYARD TAYLOR HOLMES AND RADICALLY RATIONAL TREATMENTS
  • 8. THE RISE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA IN AMERICA, 1912-1927
  • EPILOGUE
  • NOTES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX

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