American madness
Subtitle: the rise and fall of dementia praecox
By: Richard Noll
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780674047396
Subjects: Schizophrenia; Case studies; Therapy; Treatment; Biological Psychiatry; History; History, 20th Century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The world of the American alienist, 1896; title: Adolf Meyer brings dementia praecox to America; title: Emil Kraepelin; title: The American reception of dementia praecox and manic depressive insanity, 1896-1905; title: The lost biological psychiatry; title: The rise of the mind-twist men, 1903-1913; title: Bayard Taylor Holmes and radically rational treatments; title: The rise of schizophrenia in America, 1912-1927.