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One of the classics of 20th century psychiatry. Elaborating on ideas first broached in his 1910 paper on paranoia, Jaspers here introduced a number of diagnostic criteria that changed how psychiatrists view patients. Jaspers introduced the biographical method, which stresses assembling detailed biographical information about patients as well as noting how patients themselves feel about their symptoms. At least as important was his emphasis on diagnosing psychotic symptoms by their form rather than their content. Jaspers applied his method to both hallucinations and delusions, dividing the latter into primary, which appear without apparent cause and are incomprehensible in terms of normal mental functioning, and secondary, which are shaped by the person's life events and current mental state. Jaspers regarded primary delusions as meaningless and not understandable, a view later hotly contested.
Though methodologically flawed, this is the pioneer family study of schizophrenia.
Typography, printing, sketches, and illustrations by the author.
- Contents 1st issue: Bernard L. Diamond. "With Malice Aforethought;" Donald Clark Hodges. "Crimes Against Property"; Carl Frankenstein. "The Psychodynamics of Social Behavior Disturbances: a Comparison of Clinical Units"; Karpman. "Uxoricide and Infanticide in a Setting of Oedipal Jealousy."
- Contents 2nd issue: Edmund Bergler. "Voyeurism"; Frederick C. Thorne. "Psychiatric Responsibilities in the Administration of Criminal Justice"; Vernon Fox. "Emotional Dynamics in Group Violence"; Howard. B. Gill. "An Operational View of Criminology: a Critical Survey and a Review"; Karpman. "Uxoricide and Infanticide … Conclusion." Freud Centenary Section: Bergler. "One Hundred Years After Freud's Birth"; Donald Clark Hodges. "The Ethics of Freudian Guilt"; Weston La Barre. "Freud and Anthropology"; Vernon Fox. "Psychoanalysis and Prisons"; Winston K. McAllister. "The Pleasure-Pain Principle in Bentham and Freud: Some Relations Between Factual Hedonism, Normatic Hedonism, and Criminality"; Luther E. Woodward. "Psychoanalysis and Orthopsychiatry"; Fritz Wittels. "Psychoanalysis and Criminology"; Thomas Mann "Freud's Position in the History of Modern Culture" (reprinted from Psychoanalytic Review.
- Contents Issue #3: Walter Bromberg: The Murder and the Murderer, the Destroyer and the Creator"; George B. Winzie, Jr. "The Songs of Bilities: a Voyage in Lesbianism"; L. Bryce Boyer. "Uses of Delinquent Behavior by a Borderline Schizophrenic"; Carl Frankenstein. "The Configurational Approach to Causation in the Study of Juvenile Delinquents"; Karpman. "Dream Life in a Case of Uxoricide."
- Contents Issue #4: Arthur N. Foxe. "Can Man Change?"; Walter O. Lippmann. "Psychoanalytic Study of a Thief"; Jacob Chwast. "The Significance of Control in the Treatment of the Antisocial Person"; Donald Clark Hodges. "The Meaning and Justification of Punishment"; Earl O. Coon. "Homosexuality in the News"; Karpman. "Dream Life in a Case of Uxoricide Part Two."
Volume One reports in extenso 5 psychopathic cases of predation.
Katzenelbogen was associate in psychiatry in charge of the laboratory of internal medicine at the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic in Baltimore.
Discusses 3 cases of anxiety neurosis (including Darwin, pp.208-251, reprinting Kempf's paper published in volume 5 of The Psychoanalytic Review); 7 of psychoneurosis; 13 of manic depressive dissociation; 5 of paranoia; 36 of paranoid dissociation; 9 of catatonia; 17 of hebephrenic dissociation; two of general paresis; and one of arteriosclerotic deterioration.The first extensive application by an American of Freudian theory to the psychoses, written while Kempf was at St. Elizabeths working under William Alanson White. Primarily based on cases at St. E's but also draws on cases from the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic in Baltimore, where Kempf had worked under Adolf Meyer.
Seven German editions appeared between 1879 and 1903. Until superceded by Kraepelin's Lehrbuch, Krafft-Ebing's was probably the most widely influential end-of-the-century German psychiatric textbook.
American Imprints 32003; Sabin 44060 (not noting the difference in pagination); Crabtree Animal Magnetism … #249. Preceded by a 34-page edition from the same publisher, with a Baltimore edition also appearing the same year. Contains the case report by Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill. Includes a lengthy example of one of Baker's somnambulistic preachings. The final 2 1/2 pages are a "Description of this young woman, and her exercises by an intelligent gentleman, at Cayuga, in March 1814," published in the N.Y. Columbian, below which on the last leaf of text is an autograph note dated May 18, 1815: "The gentleman of Cayuga who wrote the above piece, we are credibly inform'd, has since become converted, & is a firm Christian. Rachel Baker, still continues the same exercises at [several words chipped away]."An early American case of somnambulism, probably a multiple personality. "An account of a 'sleep-talker' … who did just what the title says. She is depicted as a 'hale country lass of ninetee,' quite taciturn, who speaks with a heavy southern drawl. But when asleep she would deliver exhortations and prayers with a 'clear, harmonious voice.' The book describes her condition and gives an example of her preaching" [Crabtree].
Masserman's papers put together by him from offprints into bound volumes. Contains about 200 offprints in all the areas in which Masserman worked: experimental psychiatry, electroshock, social psychiatry, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, biodynamics, psychiatric education, music, etc.
Apparently not in Cordasco. OCLC records a microfilm copy dated 1869 but I don't believe it as NSTC records only the 1870 date. Reprints the text of the Villa Nova Latin edition with an erudite introduction and notes by the notable American medical jurisprudent and forensic psychiatrist John Ordronaux [1830-1908]. Latin and English text on facing pages. Contains brief sections on every medical category including on mental condition, refreshment for the brain, headaches, over-drinking, antidotes to poisons, the temperaments, toothache, etc.
The classic description and still the most important book on tics.
A nice letter to a former student, who at the time Meyer was writing was at the Sheppard Pratt Hospital in Towson, Maryland (a suburb of Baltimore). 12 lines plus heading and closing. A nice letter. Meyer writes "I appreciated your drawing my attention to the passage from Dr. Horney's book. [Probably Karen Horney's The Neurotic Personality of Our Time, published by Norton in 1937]. I like her turning the attention in the direction of the freedom of dynamic conceptions. It should not interfere with any other genuinely effective mode of psychodynamic and psychopathological consideration. I am very glad indeed that you took her attitude in that spirit. We were all sorry to lose you, but I see very clearly that you are not 'lost,' and I know thatyou have an exellent field and a good setting in an active group. …"
BAL 14102 Binding A; Norman Catalog 1524; Heirs of Hippocrates 1959; Cushing M403; Waller 6569 (2nd ed).Mitchell's first extensive treatise on neuropsychiatry, in which he expounds in detail the theoretical & clinical grounds for his famous 'rest cure' for hysterics. Since he was quite aware of the psychological nature of hysteria, much of Mitchell's treatment was suggestion therapy.
An emulation for mental diseases of Hun's Note-Book on Nervous Diseases with large blank sections on most pages for student's notes, many of which are filled out in ink by a contemporary student. Almost certainly printed for use in Mosher's courses at Albany Medical College, where he was Clinical Professor of Insanity, Neurology, and Electro-Therapeutics.
One of the most eminent 20th century American psychologists, Murray (who in the 1920s was a leading figure in the Melville revival) was appointed director of Harvard's Psychological Clinic in 1937—he had originally been hired there as an instructor by its founder, Morton Prince. Murray's reputation was secured by the 1938 publication with collaborators of Explorations in Personality, a book that essentially founded in America the modern psychological study of personality and that described numerous projective techniques, including the Thematic Apperception Test. In 1943 Murray left Harvard for a position in the Army Medical Corps to help with the war effort. He established and directed the Office of Strategic Services, helping to invent the post-World War II espionage universe, as described in his book on the OSS published after the war.
- A preliminary draft of the very first psychological profile ever done, in which Murray correctly predicted Hitler's suicide after the defeat of the German army — quite possibly the only surviving copy. A version dated October 1943 exists and has been made publicly available at Cornell Law School's web site. As reported in the Cornell Daily Sun for April 6th, 2005, "only 30 copies of the report were ever printed, and many of those copies are missing or have been destroyed. Thomas Mills, the international and foreign research attorney at the Law Library in charge of the Donovan collection …, said that he only knows of three or four copies in existence today, including the one in the Donovan collection." The later version is considerably longer and contains both an introductory summary and an opening section, "Hitler the Man: Notes for a Case History," written by W. H. D. Vernon.
- The study was done for the Office of Strategic Services (the "OSS"), the predecessor of the CIA. Until an article about Murray's report appeared on page A18 of the March 31st, 2005 New York Times, few people were aware of the existence of the Murray report — it had been assumed that Walter Langer's well-known study of Hitler, which formed the basis for his best-selling 1972 book The Mind of Adolf Hitler, was the first psychological study of the Nazi dictator. Murray had worked with Langer and his report was ultimately absorbed into Langer's, with knowledge of Murray's earlier effort subsequently forgotten. This preliminary version of the report is largely identical to a section that constitutes about 20% of the October (presumably final) report. There are, however, a few differences: for example, on the first page of the report that we have Murray wrote "Hitler's personality is an extreme example of the counteractive type," which was changed in the October version to "Hitler's personality is an example of …"
Cordasco #60-1270. I believe that Cordasco's 60-1269 (an alleged 1866 Philadelphia edition issued by Lippincott) is a semi-ghost. I am fairly convinced that the only 1866 edition was the London Churchill one, with a small number of copies issued for American distribution with Lippincott's imprint also on the title-page.An interesting book in which the author seeks to delineate the relation between emotional disorders and the viscera. Murray dances around the issues of hysteric disorders and sexual problems, but for the period it is remarkable that he raised them at all.
The New York State asylum system is crucially important in this turn-of-the century period when old-style asylum management turned into modern psychiatry. Both Kraepelinian and psychodynamic notions were first introduced into American psychiatry in New York, in particular at Manhattan State Hospital under Adolf Meyer.
Pages 1-168 review the operations of the state hospitals; pages 169-192 gives a complete directory of the state hospitals and private institutions for the insane; pages 194-1066 print the annual reports of the state hospitals; pages 1067-1150 prints the current state insanity law.
Pages 1-383 review the operations of the state hospitals; pages 384-424 are devoted to Matteawan and Dannemora Hospitals for the Criminally Insane; pages 425-452 give the official directory of State hospitals and private institutions for the insane; pages 453 on print the annual reports of the state hospitals (Utica; Willard; Hudson River; Middletown State Homoeopathic; Buffalo; Binghamton; St. Lawrence; Rochester: Long Island Flatbush, Long Island Kings Park; Manhattan State East; Manhattan State West; Manhattan State at Central Islip; Gowanda State Homoeopathic; State Charities' Aid Association).
Pages 1-115 review the year's operations in the state hospitals; pages 119-158 deal with Matteawan and Dannemora hospitals for the criminally insane; pages 161 on print the hospital annual reports.
Contains a review of the operations of the hospitals in the state system, with separate sections on Matteawan and Dannemora, the hospitals for the criminally insane, plus directory and annual reports.
Reviews the operations of and gives statistics for the state hospitals, with separate sections for Matteawan and Dannemora (the hospitals for the criminally insane). Also contains the official directory for everyone associated with the state hospital system and the annual reports of the hospitals.
One of the most widely used mid-century psychiatric textbooks. The first edition is an uncommon book.
A physician-lawyer, Ordronaux was the first New York State commissioner in lunacy. "One of the best books of its time in the U.S. Most of Ordronaux's publications in medicine concerned mental diseases" [Nemec Highlights in Medicolegal Relations #442]. Contains four sections: I: Rights, Remedies, and Liabilities of Physicians (with a subchapter on superintendents of asylums for the insane); Medical Evidence; (with a full chapter on evidence in cases of alleged insanity); The Ethics of Medicine; The Jurisprudence of Pharmacy."The first genuine work on medical jurisprudence as distinguished from legal medicine" (David Kronick, Landmark Books in Legal Medicine, 1981).
Contains Reich's "Orgonomic Functionalism Part II", pp. 1-15; Walter Hoppe "Further Experiences with the Orgone Energy Accumulator"; Ola Raknes "A Short Treatment with Orgone Therapy"; Victgor M. Sobey "Six Clinical Cases."
Consists of The First Bi-Annual Report of the Wilhelm Reich Foundation (1950=51) with Reich's Appendix "Truth versus Modju", pp. 162-170.
Contains Reich's "DOR Removal and Cloud-Busting", pp. 171-182; "Administration of Cosmic Orgone Energy", pp. 183-185; and "Orgonomic Functionalism. Part II (Continued) [Chapter 13]: Spontaneous Motility as the Comprehensive Functioning Principle of the Living", pp. 186-196.
Contains Reich's "From THE MURDER OF CHRIST", pp. 5-27 and "the Blackening Rocks", pp. 28-59. Also includes Elsworth F. Baker "A Grave Therapeutic Problem"; Kenneth M. Bremmer "Medical Effects of Orgone Energy"; "Modju at Work in Journalism"; "Introduction to the Documentary Volumes on Wilhelm Riech, History of Orgonomy (1897-1952)" [last two unsigned but presumably by Reich himself].
Cordasco 60-1385 (citing NLM and the NY Academy of Medicine) while OCLC lists only the NY Public Library copy. Not in Brittain (though two other Parigot pamphlets are). Belgian, Parigot had been Commissioner in Lunacy and Chief Physician at Gheel in Belgium.
Not in Cordasco; OCLC records only 4 copies: Rutgers, Histor. Soc. of Pa., NH State Libr, NY Hist Soc Arch. Parrish's 1805 University of Pennsylvania doctoral dissertation on the influence of the passions on the body was the second American psychiatric text published and one of the earliest explicitly psychosomatic works.
An unusual item, which we have never seen before.
Not in Cordasco. Peterson's part of Church & Peterson's Nervous and Mental Diseases, 3rd edition, 1901.
Wozniak Mind & Body #11; Sadoff Catalog page 62.
Prince's first book and the classic formulation of psychical monism. Based on Prince's medical thesis at Harvard, for which he won the Boylston Prize. Prince here "concerned himself with justifying the intuitive belief that our thoughts have something to do with the production of our actions. … After rejecting parallelism as being at variance with this intuition, Prince presented the classic formulation of the mind-stuff metaphysic: 'instead of there being one substance with two properties or "aspects," — mind and motion, — there is one substance, mind; and the other apparent property, motion, is only the way in which this real substance, mind, is apprehended by a second organims: only the sensations of, or effect upon, the second organism, when acted upon (ideally) by the real substance, mind' (pp. 28-29). For Prince, in other words, the psychical monism of mind-stuff constituted a modern form of immaterialism" [Wozniak Mind and Body: From René Descartes to William James, p. 14 & #11].
- Contains List of Papers Read
- L. Pierce Clark "Psychopathic Children"; "Some Therapeutic Considerations of Periodic Mental Depressions"; and "A Psychological Study of Stealing in Juvenile Delinquents"
- Adolf Meyer "Objective Psychology or Psychobiology"
- P. C. Knapp "The Treatment of Cases of Mental Disorder in General Hospitals"
- C. Macfie Campbell "On the Mechanism of Convulsive Phenomena and Allied Symptoms"; "A Case of Childhood Conflicts"; and "On the mechanism of Some Cases of Manic-Depressive Exceitement"
- Carles I. Lambert "Clinical and Anatomical Features of Alzheimer's Disease"
- M. C. Ashley "Synopsis of the History of a Case in which the Court Rushes in Where Physicians Fear to Tread"
- Smith Ely Jelliffe "A Neuropsychiatric Pilgrimage" and "Paleopsychology."
Norman Catalog 1787; Heirs of Hippocrates 1702; Sadoff Catalog p. 63.
Ray's last book, being a selection of 22 papers, all but two of which had already appeared in print.
Sadoff Catalog page 63.
Isaac Ray's first book, published while he was still a school teacher.
Sadoff Collection page 62. The second book on the subject—and the work that established the concept of mental hygiene and effectively introduced it into American medicine and psychiatry. Though Sweetser's book on the subject preceded Ray's by 20 years, it exerted nothing close to the influence that Ray's book had.Strongly influenced by Thomas Buckle's recently published History of Civilization in England (1857-61), with its emphasis on the environmental conditioning of values, customs, and attitudes (an idea already stressed by Montesquieu in the Spirit of the Laws, and even earlier by ibn Khaldun in his 14th century Al Muqaddimah), Ray defined mental hygiene as "the art of preserving the health of the mind against all the incidents and influences calculated to deteriorate its qualities, impair its energies, or derange its movement."
Sadoff Collection page 62.
The book that began the Reich revival.
Entirely devoted to an a analysis of Dr. [Stanley W.] Jackson's character traits based on his handwriting. Jackson went on to become Professor of Psychiatry at Yale and wrote the standard history of melancholia and depression. Quite a nice letter, given Roback's importance in introducing European graphology and handwriting analysis into the USA.Polish-born and reared in Montreal, Roback got his B.A. from McGill in 1912, M.A. from Harvard in 1913 and Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard in 1917. From 1917 on he lived in Cambridge, Mass. Probably because of his Jewishness, Roback never got an important academic position, though he was an instructor in psychology at numerous Boston area universities, including Harvard, M.I.T., and Northeastern. The bulk of his papers are housed at Harvard's Houghton Library, though they are not sure how or when Harvard got them. Despite his lack of a professorship, Roback made numerous significant contributions to clinical psychology, the history of psychology, and the study of Yiddish language and folkore. His 1925 Psychology of Character, which essentially introduced European graphology to an American audience, was widely influential. In the 1920s he published the first book-length bibliographies of both behaviorism and personality/character studies, as well as one of the first book-length studies of behaviorism. His 1942 books on William James and his 1957 Freudiana both contain much important material. His 1952 History of American Psychology was the first book on the subject, while his posthumous 1969 Pictorial History of Psychology and Psychiatry was the first copiously ilustrated history of either field and still contains much valuable information not easily found elsewhere. He corresponded with numerous luminaries. His interesting correspondence with Freud, which began in 1929 after Roback had sent Freud a copy of his just published (by himself, of course) Jewish Influence in Modern Thought was partly reprinted in Freudiana.
Contains most of Rush's writings on social reform, with essays added for this second edition.
Wozniak Mind & Body #45; Fay p. 71. One of the first significant native American contributions to psychology in general and to physiological psychology in particular.
- "Rush's psychology was most strongly influenced by the eminent British philosopher, David Hartley. Hartley meshed the 18th-century concepts of motion and Newtonian physics into his theory of the nervous system wherein he postulated that vibrations of minute particles of nervous ether caused nervous impulses which resulted in communication. According to Hartley, the mind is a 'tabula ras' on which these vibrations project perceptions; through the process of association, these perceptions fill the mind with ideas. Rush abstracted this vibrations concept into simple motion, and made association but one of his six operations of the mind.
- Patterning his theory after the Scottish school of mental philosophy, Rush postulated that there existed in the mind certain basic capacities or faculties. These faculties were innate but could be stimulated into action and growth. Following Aristotelian terminology, he called these mental faculties 'internal senses.' His choice of nine faculties is a considerable extension of the traditional three: reason, emotion and will, but falls far below the numbers given by the Scottish school. Rush grouped these nine faculties into three categories: the moral faculties included the moral faculty proper, conscience, and sense of deity; the intellectual faculties incorporated understanding, memory, and imagination. The remaining three were the passions, will, and the principle of faith (the 'believing faculty'). Each faculty had separate powers but coordinated with the other eight. This type of theory, when combined with the idea that each faculty was represented by a separate area in the brain, secured popular acceptance in the 19th century as Prhenology — a term Rush may have introduced, not for the movement but to designate his own medical psychology" [Eric Carlson's introduction to Benjamin Rush, M.D.: Two Essays on the Mind, Brunner/Mazel, 1972, pp. viii-ix].
Austin 1961 #1670. The second issue has signature H reset so that Section VIII begins on page 62.
Rush's last book is the first major psychiatric work by an American. Issued in five unaltered editions up to 1835, it remained the standard American psychiatric text for a generation.
The penultimate 19th century edition.
The last 19th century edition.
Morgan 1922 #5298. The translation omits several chapters. Intended for the scientific education of young people, with chapters on instinct, the impulse of the mind to wander forth, the transmutation of the lower into the higher, the nerves, animal electricity, paternal and maternal influence, the steps in the development of life, as well as numerous chapters on scientific topics (magnetism, the telegraph, heat, etc.).A Romantic physician and philosopher in the tradition of Schelling, Schubert "was the author of a highly poetic vision of nature, which sometimes reminds the modern reader of Bergson and Teilhard de Chardin and is striking in its similarities with certain Freudian and Jungian concepts. According to Schubert, man in an original primordial state, lived in harmony with nature, then severed himself from it through his Ich-sucht (self-love), but will revert to it later in a perfected form" [Ellenberger Discovery of the Unconscious, p. 205]. Schubert considerably influenced German Romantic psychiatry.
Cordasco 00-4823. Contains E. Mendel's "Insanity in Relation to Marriage"; Moll's "Perverse Sexual Sensations and Psychical Impotence"; and 25 other papers.
Sadoff Catalog page 69.
Crabtree Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism #1513. An important American contribution to the study of dissociation. Contains papers by Sidis on mental dissociation in functional psychosis and in depressive delusional states; W. A. White on dissociation in alcoholic amnesia and in epilepsy; and by George M. Parker on dissociation in functional motor disturbances and in psychomotor epilepsy.
The foundation text for psychiatric social work.
Instigated by accusations of cruelty to patients, the Committee undertook a complete investigation of the hospital's management from the inception of William Alanson White's tenure as superintendent in October 1903. The report completely exonerates White and, in fact, lauds his performance. This must be the most extensive report ever done on the management of an American asylum.
Includes reports on the Utica & Bloomingdale asylums and the Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf & Dumb, as well as all the state-supported hospitals, jails, and asylums.
Cooter Phrenology in the British Isles 1065.10 (1826 London edition). Stedman, the editor of the American edition, was Physician and Surgeon to the United States Marine Hospital, Chelsea. He contributed an 8-page preface and corrected mistranslations in the London edition.Summarizes Gall and Spurzheim's great Anatomie et physiologie du système nerveux (1810-19), the foundation text for modern theories of cerebral localization. They established "that the white matter of the brain consists of nerve fibers and that the grey matter of the cerebral cortex represents the organs of mental activity. They were the first to demonstrate that the trigeminal nerve was not merely attached to the pons, but that it sent root fibers as far down as the inferior olive in the medulla" and were among the first to examine the brain by cutting horizontal slices (described here in section IV "Of the Best Method of Dissecting the Brain"). "In addition they confirmed once and forever the medullary decussation of the pyramids" McHenry p.146. Also see numerous references to and excerpts from the Anatomie in Clarke & O'Malley Human Brain.
Cooter 1065.6; Heirs of Hippocrates 1316 (1st American edition). Spurzheim revised the text for the American edition just before he died in Boston in 1832. Brigham, superintendent at Utica and founder in 1844 of the American Journal of Insanity, supplied much supplementary material in the appendix on the conditions discussed by Spurzheim. The four plates depict side views of the heads of idiots as well as plans for a hospital for the insane and one for individuals convalescing from mental illnesses.
A good letter with excellent content. Sullivan had earlier consented to serve as consulting editor for the new journal Rosenzweig had been trying to start up. Sullivan here writes: "Thank you for your letter of August 4th concerning the proposed Journal of Experimental Psychopathology. I gather that the journal on psycho-somatic relations was the one in conflict with your proposal. I believe that the decision at least to postpone your plan was the wise one. [Paragraph] Am I correctly advised that you have assembled a survey of experimental investigation of psychoanalytic hypotheses? If so, I wonder if it is not quite possibly the sort of contribution that our Publications Committee desires. I can guarantee a prompt reading; in case it is available, even though I myself am buried in responsibilities for the next six weeks." Printed below his signature: Harry Stack Sullivan // For the Publications Committee. Rosenzweig (1907-2004) was from 1948 on professor of psychology at Washington University in St. Louis.Probably the most influential native American psychiatric theorist of the 20th century, Sullivan originally made his reputation from the papers he published reporting his work with schizophrenics at the Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Maryland between 1925 & 1929. Doctors, nurses, and authority figures were banned from the ward. Instead, specially trained ward attendants were the persons with whom the patients were in daily contact. In the 1930s Sullivan co-founded the William Alanson White Institute, still probably the leading independent analytic institute, and in 1937 the journal Psychiatry: Journal of the Biology and Pathology of Interpersonal Relations. Most of his important ideas were introduced in lectures and in papers published in the journal. Sullivan melded ideas from social science (especially from the anthropologist Edward Sapir) with psychiatry and psychoanalysis to forge a genuinely interpersonal psychiatry in which the central concepts were anxiety as the principal threat to self-esteem, and the individual's defenses against it. His concepts of proto-, para-, and syntaxis bear a remarkable, though rarely noted, resemblance to ideas later developed in France by Jacques Lacan. Sullivan also introduced the term "significant other."
Cordasco 50-1776.
An incunable of psychosomatic medicine as well as the first book on and the earliest use of the term 'mental hygiene'. Foreshadowing the psychodynamic revolution of the 1890s, Sweetser (professor of the theory and practice of physics at the University of Vermont) wrote "the condition of our moral feelings exercises a powerful influence upon our physical organs … mind and body necessarily participate in the weal and woe of each other" (p. 15).
Shaw & Shoemaker #16348 (locating 4 copies); Hunter & Macalpine pp. 587-591. The first book-length psychiatric publication in America, preceded only by several dissertations. First published in Newcastle, England in 1807, the American edition reprints the text of the second British edition.A Scottish naval surgeon, Trotter wrote the first medical treatise on alcoholism, which he considered a mental disease.
Velikovsky writes "I thank you for your interest in my paper about the dreams of Freud. I am going to order the reprints, and as soon I shall have them I shall be glad to sent [sic] you a copy." His respondent, Saul Rosenzweig (1907-2004), was at the time at the Western Psychiatric Institute in Pittsburgh. In 1948 he became Professor of Psychology at Washington University, making a number of significant contributions to clinical psychology and to Freud scholarship, the latter being capped by publication of his 1992 book Freud, Jung, and Hall the Kingmaker, which is the most extensive discussion of Freud's 1909 trip to America.
- Born into a prosperous Jewish family in Vitebsk, Russia (now part of Belarus), Velikovsky gained his medical degree from Moscow University in 1921, after which in Berlin he founded (with his father's financial support) and edited the "Scripta Universitatis," a collective work out of which grew the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From about 1924 to 1939 the Velikovskys lived in Palestine, during which time Velikovsky published a number of medical papers. Increasingly he turned to psychiatry and psychoanalysis. In 1933 he studied psychoanalysis with Stekel in Vienna. The Velikovsky family moved to New York City in 1939 for what they thought was a sabbatical year.
- In 1941 Velikovsky published "The Dreams Freud Dreamed" in The Psychoanalytic Review vol. 28 (October 1941), pp. 487-511. Though the connection to his later attempted reconstruction of cosmology and of early human history is not obvious, Velikovsky's later work in fact derived from Freud's 1939 book on Moses, the work on which first led him to conclude that traditional ancient chronology was incorrect. This led Velikovsky to change course and to rethink cosmology from a catastrophist viewpoint and then to rearrange Pharaonic chronology. He announced his program in a 1942 affidavit, followed by two pamphlets privately issued in 1945, and then the completion in 1946 of the manuscript for Worlds in Collision, the publication history of which is too well known to need me to retell it again. His original project, inspired by Freud's Moses and Monotheism did not appear until 1960, when it was published as his fourth book.
Contains chapters on the history of psychotherapy, suggestion, hypnosis, what would later be called psychosomatics, gynecological psychotherapy, the endocrines, organic nervous diseases, the psychoneuroses; psychotherapy in surgery; etc.
The first general textbook of medical psychotherapy by an American.
Fictionalized first person account of madness, subsequently made into a haunting movie.
Chapters on the mind, brain, nervous system, emotions, imagination, attention, the nature of pain, the environment, and practical applications (discussing headache, constipation, catarrh, nervousness and nervous exhaustion, rheumatism & neuralgia, functional disorders of women, etc.).
Not in OCLC. Title given is that of the main title-page; a slightly different title appears on the recto of the frontispiece.
Brittain Medico-Legal Bibliography, p. 200; Nemec Highlights in Medicolegal Relations #423: "[A]n outstanding treatise, accepted by both the legal and medical professions in the U.S. as a standard authority. It reached five editions." The first section of Wharton & Stillé's 1855 Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence (a standard text with editions published up to 1905), separately published for private distribution.
Brittain Medico-Legal Bibliography p. 201; Nemec Highlights in Medicolegal Relations #423: "[A]n outstanding treatise, accepted by both the legal and medical professions in the U.S. as a standard authority. It reached five editions." The first part was published separately (before the full book) in 1855 as Monograph on Mental Unsoundness. The 5th and last (greatly enlarged and revised) edition appeared in 1905. The standard mid- to late 19th century textbook and reference work on medical jurisprudence.
Brittain Medico-Legal Bibliography p. 201; Sadoff Catalog page 79; Nemec Highlights in Medicolegal Relations #423: "[A]n outstanding treatise, accepted by both the legal and medical professions in the U.S. as a standard authority. It reached five editions." The standard mid- to late 19th century textbook and reference work on medical jurisprudence, the The 5th and last (greatly enlarged and revised) edition of which appeared in 1905. This second edition is much enlarged from the first with nearly 300 pages added to the legal and psychological areas and with the chapters on insanity rearranged, revised, and expanded so as to harmonize them with English and American court decisions. The chapters on circumstantial evidence have been condensed while sections on survivorship, medical malpracttice, the legal relations of identity, the psychical indications of guilt, and the presumptions to be drawn from wounds and the instrument of death have been added to the text.
Brittain Medico-Legal Bibliography p. 201; Nemec Highlights in Medicolegal Relations #423: "[A]n outstanding treatise, accepted by both the legal and medical professions in the U.S. as a standard authority. It reached five editions." Volume I: A Treatise on Mental Unsoundness, Embracing a General View of Psychological Law. Volume 2 part one deals with the foetus (edited by Samuel Ashhurst), sex, and forms of violent death (the section on poisons edited by Robert Amory [1842-1910] and the section on wounds by Wharton Sinkler); Volume 2 part two deals with other forms of violent death.
Wilson was medical superintendent at the Mavisbank Asylum.
Hunter & Macalpine p. 1074; McHenry p. 527 (cited as one of the important original works in the history of neurology). So far as I know, the first explicitly neuropsychiatric work written in English.A wide-ranging and highly literate survey of the phenomena of insanity by the founder of the first British psychiatric journal. He here advocates the study of chemico-cerebral pathology and, in the Introduction, gives what is probably the first explicit recommendation for psychodiagnostic tests.
Written as a supplement to their 1908 Religion and Medicine, the book that started the Emmanuel Movement, which went into many printings. The first part, by Worcester, originally appeared as an article in The Century Magazine for July, 1909. The second part, by McComb, is a revised and expanded version of his article in the October, 1909 Hibbert Journal. Unlike their earlier book, this defense of the movement against attacks by both Christian Scientists and physicians is very uncommon. Not in Vande Kempe's Psychology and Theology in Western Thought, though she described The Emmanuel Movement as "one of the earliest efforts in the twentieth century to integrate spiritual and psychological approaches to healing. Based on the initial effort of James Bisset Pratt with tuberculosis patients (Pratt was the founder of group therapy), Emmanuel Church, Boston, l begqan work with the emotionally disturbed in 1906. The movement perceived itself as part of the demand for a functional faith similar to Christian Science" [annotation to #514, Religion and Medicine]. The Emmanuel Movement became quickly and wildly popular—it was obviously in tune with changes then going on in American culture—and at the height of its influence had over a million members. Nonetheless by 1912 it was already nearly dead, about to be replaced (if that's the correct term) by the nascent medical movements of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
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