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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Lamb, S.D. (1971-....)
Titre(s) : Pathologist of the mind [Texte imprimé] : Adolf Meyer and the origins of American psychiatry / S.D. Lamb
Publication : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-299 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
"During the first half of the twentieth century, Adolf Meyer was the most authoritative
and influential psychiatrist in the United States. In 1908, when the Johns Hopkins
Hospital established the first American university clinic devoted to psychiatry--still
a nascent medical specialty at the time--Meyer was selected to oversee the enterprise.
The Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic opened in 1913, and Meyer served as psychiatrist-in-chief
at the hospital until 1941. In Pathologist of the Mind, S.D. Lamb explores how Meyer
used his powerful position to establish psychiatry as a clinical science that operated
like the other academic disciplines at the country's foremost medical school. In addition
to successfully arguing for a scientific and biological approach to mental illness,
Meyer held extraordinary sway over state policies regarding the certification of psychiatrists.
He also trained hundreds of specialists who ultimately occupied leadership positions
and made significant contributions in psychiatry, neurology, experimental psychology,
social work, and public health. Although historians have long recognized Meyer's authority,
his concepts and methods have never before received a systematic historical analysis.
His convoluted theory of "psychobiology," along with his notoriously ineffective attempts
to explain it in print, continue to baffle many clinicians. Pathologist of the Mindaims
to rediscover Meyerian psychiatry by eavesdropping on Meyer's informal and private
conversations with his patients and colleagues. Weaving together private correspondence
and uniquely detailed case histories, Lamb examines Meyer's efforts to institute a
clinical science of psychiatry in the United States--one that harmonized the expectations
of scientific medicine with his concept of the person as a biological organism and
mental illness as an adaptive failure. The first historian ever granted access to
these exceptional medical records, Lamb offers a compelling new perspective on the
integral but misunderstood legacy of Adolf Meyer."--Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Meyer, Adolf (1866-1950)
Psychiatrie -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Psychothérapie -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
616.890 09 (23e éd.) = Troubles mentaux (psychiatrie) - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781421425139 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45524773j
Notice n° :
FRBNF45524773
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Table des matières : Pathology as method : Adolf Meyer's vision for a clinical science of psychiatry ;
Mind as biology : Adolf Meyer's concept of psychobiology ; Unique soil in Baltimore
: the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital ; The baptismal child of
American psychiatry : the Meyerian case history ; A wonderful center for mental orthopedics
: Adolf Meyer's therapeutic experiment ; Subconscious adaptation : psychotherapy
and psychoanalysis in Meyerian psychiatry.
