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Psychiatry in an Anthropological and Biomedical Context

Philosophical Presuppositions and Implications of German Psychiatry, 1820–1870

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Authors:
  1. Gerlof Verwey

    1. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Modern Science (SHMS, volume 15)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Anthropological Psychiatry in Germany during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

    • Gerlof Verwey
    Pages 1-36

  3. The Mechanistic Viewpoint in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Science (Psychology and Physiology)

    • Gerlof Verwey
    Pages 37-85

  4. W. Griesinger and the Mechanicist Conception of Psychiatry (from about 1845 to about 1868)

    • Gerlof Verwey
    Pages 86-155

  5. Schopenhauer, Rokitansky and Lange: Towards an Explicit Philosophical Justification of German ‘Materialism’ (from about 1840)

    • Gerlof Verwey
    Pages 156-200

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 201-316
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About this book

In the period between about 1820 and about 1870 German psychiatry was born and reborn: fust as anthropologically orientated psychiatry and then as biomedical psychiatry. There has, to date, been virtually no systematic examination of the philosophical motives which determined these two conceptions of psychiatry. The aim of our study is to make up for this omission to the best of our ability. The work is aimed at a very diverse readership: in the first place historians of science (psychiatry, medicine, psychology, physiology) and psychiatrists (psychologists, physicians) with an interest in the philosophical and historical aspects of their discipline, and in the second place philosophers working in the fields of the history of philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of medicine. The structure and content of our study have been determined by an attempt to balance two different approaches to the historical material. One approach emphasises the philosophical literature and looks at the question of the way in which official philosophy determined the self-conception (Selbstverstiindnis) of the science of the day (Chapters 2 and 4). The other stresses the scientific literature and is concerned with throwing light on its philosophical implications (Chapters 1 and 3).

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`For the reader interested in conceptions of what psychology might be, or in what historically has been thought to be rationally required to make psychology possible, this book is an invaluable resource. For the philosophical issues covered, it is an accurate and sensitive historical guide.'
Medical History (April 1986)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Philosophy, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Gerlof Verwey

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Psychiatry in an Anthropological and Biomedical Context

  • Book Subtitle: Philosophical Presuppositions and Implications of German Psychiatry, 1820–1870

  • Authors: Gerlof Verwey

  • Series Title: Studies in the History of Modern Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5213-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8806-0Published: 13 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5213-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 336

  • Additional Information: Originally published in Dutch

  • Topics: History, general, Psychiatry, Anthropology

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