Journal Article A History of Psychiatry: From the Era Asylum to Age Prozac, By Edward Shorter. (New York: Wiley, 1997. xii, 436 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-471-15749-X.) Get access Ellen Herman University Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1033–1034, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953108 Published: 01 1997

In The Age of Revolution, Eric Hobsbawm traced the transformation European life between 1789 and 1848 by Dual Revolution - French Industrial Revolution. years that followed values developed which, taken together, made up age capital. this history 1848-1875, he continues his analysis rise industrial capitalism consolidation bougeois culture. extension capitalist economy to four corners globe, mounting concentration wealth, migration men, domination Europe culture third quarter 19th century a...

The use of lithium in psychiatry goes back to the mid-19th century. Early work, however, was soon forgotten, and John Cade is credited with reintroducing for mania 1949. Mogens Schou undertook a randomly controlled trial 1954, course that study became curious about as prophylactic depressive illness. In 1970, United States 50th country admit marketplace. Meanwhile, interest prophylaxis depression growing apace today agent widely prescribed indication, even though it has not been accepted by...

Shock therapy is making a comeback today in the treatment of serious mental illness. Despite its reemergence as safe and effective psychiatric tool, however, it continues to be shrouded by longstanding negative public image, not least due films such classic One Flew over Cuckoo's Nest, where inmate clinic (played Jack Nicholson) subjected electro-shock curb his rebellious behavior. Beyond vilification popular culture, stereotype convulsive dangerous inhumane practice fuelled professional...

To be one of 'the middling sort' in urban England the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, way another, world commerce. In lively study that combines narrative and alternately poignant hilarious anecdotes with convincing analysis, Margaret R. Hunt offers view society during hundred years separated Glorious Revolution from factory age. Thanks her exploration many family papers court records, is able examine what people thought, felt, valued. She finds early...

Objective: To determine if the concept of two separate depressions – melancholia and non‐melancholia has existed in writings main previous thinkers about mood disorders. Method: Representative contributions to writing on disorders over past hundred years have been systematically evaluated. Results: The does indeed emerge psychiatric literature from very beginning modern ‘melancholia’. For principal nosologists psychiatry, melancholic depression always meant something quite different...

Abstract Between 1880 and 1940, to take approximate dates, illegitimate fertility rates in Europe dropped precipitously, falling most countries by 50% or more. The used throughout this paper relate extra-marital births the number of unmarried (i.e. single, widowed divorced) women; we use a standardized index, I {ih} be discussed later. In Fig. 1 present European series h 's that can computed from existing census vital registration data. Although there are interesting exceptions general...

Illegitimacy, Sexual Revolution, and Social Change in Modern Europe Sexuality traditional society may be thought of as a great iceberg, frozen by the command custom, need surrounding community for stability at cost individuality, dismal grind daily life. Its thawing England Western occurred roughly between middle eighteenth end nineteenth centuries, when revolution eroticism took place, specifically among lower classes, direction libertine sexual behavior. One one, chunks-such premarital...

The current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-5 arose from a tradition filled with haphazard science politically driven choices. nosology modern psychiatry began the German classifiers late 19th century, especially Emil Kraepelin. Psychoanalysis then blotted out classificatory vision for next half-century, most this European psychopathological failed to cross Atlantic. DSM series was homegrown American product, beginning Medical 203 in 1945, guided by psychoanalytic...

1. Introduction 2. Before Psychopharmacology 3. The First Drug Set 4. Power Play 5. Killer Drugs! 6. Death Sentences 7. This Plague of Affective Disorders 8. Losing Ground 9. What Now? GLOSSARY NOTES