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Contains introduction by Caruth and her interview with Robert Jay Lifton; Shoshana Felman's "Education and Crisis, Or the Vicissitudes of Teaching"; Henry Krystal's "Integration and Self-Healing in Post-Traumatic States: A Ten Year Retrospective"; Laura Brown's "Not Outside the Range: One Feminist Perspective on Psychic Trauma"; Harold Bloom's "Freud: Frontier Concepts, Jewishness, and Interpretation."
Contains Henry Smith William's "On a Case of Shock; with some Observations on the Vaso-Motor System"; Walter Channing's "Lunacy Legislation as Proposed by Dr. Stephen Smith and Others"; Edward N. Brush's "Notes on Some Clinical Experiences with Insomnia"; P. M. Wise's "The Barber Case; the Legal Responsibility of Epileptics"; J. P. Bancroft's "The Bearing of Hospital Adjustments upon the Efficiency of Remedial and Meliorating Treatment in Mental Diseases"; J. Macpherson's "On the Dissolution of the Functions of the Nervous System in Insanity, with a Suggestion for a New Basis of Classification"; Judson B. Andrews' "State versus County Care".
Contains Abraham Meyerson's "Psychiatric Family Studies. Second Paper. Dealing with the Psychoses of Brothers and Sisters"; K. M. Bowman's "Report of the Examination of the—Regiment, U.S. Army, for Nervous and Mental Diseases"; A. W. Hoisholt's "Impulsve Acts in the Particular Form of Swallowing Foreign Objects, as met with Among the Insane"; Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones's "Drink and Its Control in Relation to Work and Health in Great Britain"; R. L. Whitney's "A Study of Cases of Manic-Depressive Psychosis Arising After the Age of Forty"; A. Warren Stearns's "The Value of Out-Patient Work Among the Insane"; Alan D. Finlayson's "Results in Treatment of Paresis by Inunctions of mercury and Drainage of the Cerebrospinal Fluid"; Charles K. Mills's "The Influence of Wars on the Psychology of the Times"; Arthur H. Harrington's "The Receiving Unit of the State Hospital at Howard, Rhode Island"; Jau Don Ball and Hayward G. Thomas's "A Sociological, Neurological, Serological and Psychiatrical Study of a Group of Prostitutes"; Alfred Hordon's "The So-Called Lucid Interval in Manic-Depressive Psychoses."
Contains James V. Anglin's Presidential Address; J. Rogues De Fursac's "Traumatic and Emotional Psychoses. So-Called Shell Shock" (translated by A. J. Rosannoff); Lawson Gentry Lowrey's "The Insane Psychoneurotic"; Frederic Lyman Wells & Herbert A. Sturges's "The Pathology of Choice Reactions"; Isador H. Coriat's "Some Familial and Hereditary Features of Amaurotic Idiocy"; Major Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones's "The Relation of Alcohol to Mental States"; Chalfant Robinson's "Historical Pathology: The Case of King Louis XI of France."
Contains Owen Copp's "An Administrative Ideal in Public Welfare Work"; H. Douglas Singer's "Developments in Illinois"; James V. May's "The Functions of the Psychopathic Hospital"; George E. McPherson's "Neuro-Psychiatry in Army Camps"; Edward A. Strecker's "Experiences in the Immediate Treatment of War Neuroses"; John H. W. Rhein's "Psychopathic Reactions to Combat Experiences in the American Army."
Contains E. E. Southard's "Cross Sections of Mental Hygiene, 1844, 1869, 1894"; Harvey Cushing's "Concerning the Establishment of a National Institute of Neurology"; Samuel T. Orton's On the Classification of Nervous and Mental Diseases"; C. B. Farrar's "Rehabilitation in Nervous and Mental Cases Among Ex-Soldiers"; C. G. MacArthur & E. A. Doisy's "Chemical Analyses of Two Pathological Human Brains"; proceedings of the annual meeting and reviews.
Contains Earl D. Bond's "Epidemic Encephalitis and Katatonic Symptoms"; Eva Rawlings's "The Histopathologic Findings in Dementia Praecox"; L. Vernon Briggs's "War Neuroses, the Environment and Events as the Causes"; Carlos F. MacDonald's "Should the Plea of Insanity as a Defense to an Indictment for Crime Be Abolished?" Edith R. Spaulding's "Three Cases of Larceny in which the Anti-Social Conduct Appeared to Repreent an Effort to Compensate for Emotional Repression"; George M. Kline's "Proposed Reorganization and Consolidation of State Institutions in Massachusetts"; Burdette G. Lewis's "The New Jersey Plan in Operation"; Walter L. Treadway's "Activities of the War Risk Insurance Bureau and U.S. Public Health Service Relative to the Mentally Disabled Ex-Military Men."
Case history of a combat veteran with traumatic war neurosis.
The second book by an American (of which we are aware) on traumatic neuroses, the first being Hamilton's 1904 book. An outgrowth of Bailey's earlier Accident and Injury in their Relations to the Nervous System he tries in the present work to provide the means for differentiating between nerve afflictions resulting from injury or trauma and endogenous disorders. Quite different in tone, orientation, and purpose from Hamilton's earlier book since Bailey was a practicing neurologist (at the time Clinical Lecturer in Neurology at Columbia University) while Hamilton was a forensically oriented alienist. Bailey went on, of course, to achieve considerable distinction as an American neurologist.Part I deals with organic effects of injury to the nervous system, part II with functional effects, and part III with medico-legal considerations.
Contains chapters: The Theory of Cognitive Dissonance: A Current Perspective by Elliot Aronson; Attitudes and Attraction by Doon Bryne; Sociolinguistics by Susan M. Ervin-Tripp; Recognition of Emotion by Nico H. Frijda; Studies of Status Congruence by Edward E. Sampson; Explatory Investigation of Empathy by Ezra Stotland; and The Personal Reference Scale: An Approach to Social Judgement by Harry S. Upshaw.
Contains chapters: Media Violence and Aggressive Behavior by Goranson; Studies in Leader Legitimacy, Influence, and Innovation by Hollander & Julian; Experimental Studies of Negro-White Relationships by Katz; Findings and Theory in the Study of Fear Communication by Leventhal; Perceived Freedom by Steiner; Experimental Studys of Family by Waxler & Mishler; and Why Do Groups Make Riskier Decisions than Individuals? by Dion, Baron, & Miller.
Contains sections on fixed ideas and reactions (11 chapters); psychoneurosis—its manifestations (17 chapters); psychoneurosis—its nature & causes (8 chapters); traumatic hysteria (6 chapters); clinical types of inhibition (5 chapters - hysterical blindness, loss of voice, etc.); sundry disorders (6 chapters on enuresis, migraine, epilepsy, stammering, alcoholism, drug addiction); mental illness (11 chapters on senile dementia, GPI, melancholia, paranoia, schizophrenia, mania, infantilism, psychopathy, etc.); closing chapter on the patient's role in therapy.Bluemel was a pioneer in the field of speech pathology, with a special interest in stuttering, from which he suffered throughout his life. Bluemel donated his library on the subject to the University of Denver; after his death his widow donated his papers there. He practiced psychiatry in Denver and both owned and superintended Mount Airy Asylum, a private psychiatric hospital, from 1927 to 1953.
Contains an extensive section on the myth of the devil-Jew (pp. 119-153).
Boyland served in the 1870 Franco-Prussian war as assistant surgeon-major in the first French ambulance unit.
Contains Robert Sadoff's "Violence in Families: An Overview"; Frank A. Elliott's "Neurological Factors in Violent Behavior"; Marvin E. Wolfgang's "Family Violence and Criminal Behavior"; Seymour L. Halleck's "Psychodynamic Aspects of Violence"; Henry H. Foster, Jr.'s "Violence Toward Children: Medicolegal Aspects"; John Money & June Werlas's "Folie à Deux in the Parents of Psychosocial Dwarfs: Two Cases."
OCLC locates 4 copies: NY Acad Med; NLM; Univ Minnesota, Univ of Queensland. Buscaino was director of the Clinic for Diseases of the Nervous System at the University of Naples. Contains chapters on the somatic expression of emotion; physiopathology of emotion; pathogenesis of psychic trauma; hysteria & trauma; classification of mental disorders; demntia praecox.
Contains D. I. Wallis, Aggression in Social Insects—L. Harrison Matthews, Overt Fighting in Mammals—Konrad Lorenz, Ritualized Fighting—K. R. L. Hall, Physiological Background to Aggression—Thelma Veness, Introduction to Hostility in Small Groups—Denis Hill, Aggression and Mental Illness—James Laver, Costume as a Means of Social Aggression—Derek Freeman, Human Aggression in Anthropological Perspective—Stanislav Andreski, Origins of War—Anthony Storr, Possible Substitutes for War—John Burton, The Nature of Aggression as Revealed in the Atomic Age.
The first book by an American on "railway spine," with a chapter on traumatic insanity. Clevenger named the condition "Erichsen's disease" after the English physician who first described it, whose views he vigorously supprted, and showed that the spinal sympathetic nervous system was the main seat of spinal concussion.
Bibliographs 3856 items.
Originally published as part of the symposium War and Democracy in 1938.
Eissler's last book, published posthumously. Contains an extensive discussion of Ferenczi and (pages 321-29) a biographical account of Elizabeth Severn based on his 1952 interview with her.
An interesting Austrian contribution to the literature of malingering with sections devoted to nervousness, neurasthenia, & traumatic neurosis; anesthesia, hypoaesthesia, & paresthesia; pain & hypersensibility; motor symptoms; vertigo; fainting, epilepsy, hysteria; imbecility. A second edition appeared in 1920. The "Erben Sign" (or "Phenomenon" or "Sign") is named after Erben, who practiced neurology in Vienna and who also wrote a book on neurasthenia.
OCLC records only 2 copies: Harvard Law & NLM.
Grinstein #10701 (omiting this 2nd edition). Adds Strachey's translation of Freud's 1937 "A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis", 1st published in the Almanach, in English in the IJP (1941, 22:1 p.93).
Grinstein #10654.
"Freud wrote the present work (first published 1915 in Vol. 4 of Imago) in an attempt to come to terms with the unprecedented horrors of the first World War, which had destroyed the illusion that humanity had progressed to a permanent high level of ethics and civilization. The second part of the work dealt with 'civilized' and 'primal' attitudes toward death, and described how war strips away the veneer of the first to reveal the second" [Norman Catalog].
Grinstein #10654; Grinstein Freud Bibliography #259; Norman Catalog F116.
"Freud wrote the present work … in an attempt to come to terms with the unprecedented horrors of the first World War, which had destroyed the illusion that humanity had progressed to a permanent high level of ethics and civilization. The second part of the work dealt with 'civilized' and 'primal' attitudes toward death, and described how war strips away the veneer of the first to reveal the second" [Norman Catalog].
Grinstein #10654; Grinstein Freud Bibliography #259; Norman Catalog F116.
Grinstein #10439; Norman Catalog F96 (this copy); Grinstein Freud Bibliography #283. The first book issued by the IPV.A symposium held at the Fifth International Psycho-Analytical Congress Budapest, Sept., 1918. Grinstein 10439. An monograph of considerable importance for the acceptance of psychoanalysis as a therapeutically useful treatment method.
The Nazi racial purity laws with interpretation and illustrated contributions by Lexer and Eymer on how to sterilize males and females. The basis for the sterilization (and later elimination) of Jews, Gypsies, mental defectives, homosexuals. A ghastly document of clear world-historical importance.
Brittain p. 79. The most ambitious American work on the subject to its time, this is a massive state-of-the-art encyclopedic handbook of forensic medicine from both the medical and legal points of view with 28 distinguished contributors. Contains numerous monographic articles of direct psychiatric interest: Hamilton's "Insanity in its Medico-Legal Bearings"; Calvin S. Pratt's "Mental Responsibility of the Insane in Civil Cases"; Bernard Sachs' "Insanity and Crime"; Louis E. Binsse's "On the Relations of Mental Defect and Disease to Criminal Responsibility"; Charles K. Mills' "Aphasia and Other Affections of Speech"; Charles L. Dana's "The Traumatic Neuroses: eing a Description of the Chronic Nervous Disorders that follow Shock and Injury"; John E. Parsons' "Mental Distress as an Element of Damage in Cases to recover for Personal Injuries"; Philip Coombs Knapp's "Feigned Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System"; Charles Gilbert Chaddock's "Sexual Crimes." A London edition appeared in 1895 and a second edition in 1900.
An early critical examination of the sex abuse accusations and trials.
Hendrix was professor of pathology at the University of Michigan and deputy medical examiner for Washtenaw County, Michigan.
OCLC records only two copies of the first edition (and only one of the of the 1922 2nd ed.): Center for Res. Libr; and College of Physicians of Phila. Horn was Privatdozent für Versicherungsmedizin an der Universität Bonn und Oberarzt am Krankenhause der Barmherzigen Brüder. Revised editions appeared in 1922 and 1932.
The 4th American psychiatric journal and the 3rd American neurological journal. Hughes began the journal in 1880 explicitly to promote neuropsychiatry. Contains 17 contributions relating to epilepsy (See Lipson, Montes, & Devinsky's "Epilepsy in The Alienist and Neurologist, 1880-1920." Contains the first appearance of Osler's "Idiocy and Feeble-Mindedness in Relation to Infantile Hemiplegia: A Report of Twenty-two Cases at the Pennsylvania Institution for Feeble-minded Children" 10:16-26 [Golden & Roland #579]. Contains numerous editorials & papers by Hughes himself and papers by Clark Bell, T. D. Crothers, S. V. Clevenger, Frederick Peterson, George Preston, Joseph Workman, and many others. Frank Baker's "Recent Discoveries in the Nervous System" [14:420-447] reports the work of Gehuchten, His, Lenhossek, Obersteiner, Ramón y Cajal, and Waldeyer, and contains a large folding plate with 28 lithographed figures taken from the authors mentioned, figures 15-28 reproducing Cajal's lovely illustrations of brain cells taken from his 1892 "El nuevo concepto de la histologia de los centros nerviosos." Contains numerous papers and reviews on neuropsychiatric trauma & railway spine, child insanity, epilepsy, clinical neurology, hysteria (including a paper by Babinski), hypnotism & suggestion, forensics, degeneration, idiocy & feeble-mindedness, insanity, neurasthenia, neurosurgery, neurophysiology. Notable for the number of translations of European writers, including Lombroso and a number of other Italian authors rarely seen in translation elsewhere.
Contains Ferenczi's "Gedanken über das Trauma"; Imre Hermann's "Einführung zu Ferenczis Gedanken . . ."; Rado's "Psychoanalyse der Pharmakothyme (Rauschgiftsucht)"; Alexander's "Über das Verhältnis von Struktur- zu Triebkoflikten"; Bälint's "Charakteranlyse und Neubeginn"; Richard Sterba's "Das Schicksal des Ichs in therapeutischen Verfahren"; Lewin's "Analyse und Struktur einer passagèren Hypomanie"; Maxim. Steiner's "Was hat der Sexualarzt der Psychoanalyse zu verdanken?"; Schilder & G. Wechsler's "Was weiß das Kind vom Körpererinneren?"; H. Christoffel's "Stuhldrang und Müdigkeit"; Max Löwy's "Zur Bedeutung des Zahleneinfalls in der Analyse."
Contains M. Wullf's "Über einen Fall von männlicher Homosexualität"; D. K. Dreyfuss' "Zur Theorie der traumatischen Neurose"; E. Kis' "Probleme der Ästhetik"; and E. Isaasc-Edersheim's "Messias, Golem, Ahasver. Drei mythische Gestalten des Judentums. II. Der Golem."
The Holocaust-denying historian David Irving sued Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt for damages, claiming he had been libelled in Lipstadt's book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, published in the UK by Penguin in 1994 and originally in the USA in 1994 by The Free Press. Originally Irving had named four Waterstones' bookshops as codefendants, but they were later dropped from the suit. Because of the complexity of the evidence to be submitted, the parties agreed to have a single judge try the case. The trial opened in the High Court in London January 11th, 2000 and Justice Gray found for the defendants on April 11, 2000.
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