Like psychiatry, Gothic fiction has often been read in relation to religious practice or in light of the history of medicine. By bringing these approaches together, I offer an alternative history of both the early Gothic novel and modern psychiatry—one that reveals their intimate interconnection at a formative moment in the lives of both. Freudian ...
Este artículo analiza, a partir el vínculo entre psiquiatría y antropología, cómo se consolidó un discurso organicista capaz de legitimar el exterminio nazi y las políticas eugenésicas en los países democráticos. Partimos del degeneracionismo del siglo XIX y contrastamos la vertiente étnica y racial de Arthur de Gobineau con la vertiente alienista ...
Published in American journal of psychotherapy
Published in The American journal of psychiatry
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), one of the most popular schools of contemporary psychotherapy, presents itself as "scientific" and "evidence-based", particularly in contrast with its predecessor, psychoanalysis. This scientific image has shaped CBT on a number of levels. For example, the 'origin story' told by CBT proponents of their own histo...
Published in The American journal of psychiatry
While psychiatric genetics has emerged as one of our most dynamic research fields, the historical context in which we view these developments is limited. To provide such a perspective, the author reviews 48 representative texts, published from 1780 to 1910, examining the inheritance of insanity. Six main conclusions emerge. First, most authors view...
Published in The American journal of psychiatry
Since the 1980 publication of the third edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III), there has been a substantial and ongoing transformation in the way that psychiatric disorders have been classified, understood, and diagnosed. My dissertation, "Crisis Tendencies: Contemporary Fiction and the Political Economy of ...
Published in The American journal of psychiatry
Histories of the diathesis-stress model trace its origins to the 1950s. However, of 26 psychiatric texts published between 1800 and 1910, 17 noted that causes of insanity could be usefully divided into those that predispose to illness and those that excite onset. In this "predisposition-excitation framework" (PEF) for the etiology of insanity, here...
