Historical Perspectives on Mental Health and Psychiatry

Bourke, Joanna

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“…The third section will reflect on the nature of psychiatric expertise, followed by further discussion and conclusions. Although British psychiatry may not have been subject to the same extremes and dramatic shifts that Whooley documents, it has had its own changes of direction, 3 sometimes ideological, 4,5 and we should take the opportunity to reflect and learn from the American experience.…”

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“…2 Bertrand Russell, in his famous History of Western Philosophy, claims: 'they [the Greeks] invented mathematics, science and philosophy'. 3 Thomas Macaulay (1800-1859), a Whig politician who served on the Supreme Council of India, famously claimed that 'a single shelf of a good European library [is] worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia'. 4 In today's information-rich world, it takes a cursory internet search to refute these claims.…”

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Not doomed: sociology and psychiatry, and ignorance and expertise

Ikkos

2022

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Summary This paper presents and responds to On the Heels of Ignorance, a sociological study which identifies five fundamental epistemological paradigm changes in American psychiatry in the service of its survival and details several tactics that have been employed to facilitate these professional reinventions. Issues raised in this presentation include the relationship between psychiatry, society and the state, and the nature and significance of psychiatric expertise. The dynamic of these relationships and the complexities of the required expertise create their own challenges for the advancement and professional accountability of the specialty. The conclusion suggests some future imperatives.

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Not doomed: sociology and psychiatry, and ignorance and expertise

Ikkos

2022

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“…The emergence of psychopharmacology in the 1950s reinforced the inclination to think of disturbed mental states as medical conditions. 7 However, their protean nature has challenged the aspiration to establish natural diagnostic boundaries consistent with a biomedical model. 8 The (only partially successful) response to this challenge has been to establish diagnoses by committee.…”

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Images of depression in Charles Baudelaire: clinical understanding in the context of poetry and social history

Stanghellini

Ikkos

2022

BJPsych Bull

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Summary There is increasing recognition of the importance of the humanities and arts in medical and psychiatric training. We explore the poetry of Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) and its evocations of depression through themes of mood, time and self-consciousness and discuss their relation to images of ‘spleen’, the ‘snuffling clock’ and the ‘sinister mirror’. Following the literary critical commentaries of Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) and Jean Starobinski (1920–2019) we identify some of their roots in the poet's experience of the rapid and alienating urbanisation of 19th-century Paris. Appreciation of the rich vocabulary of poetry and the images it generates adds depth to clinical practice by painting vivid pictures of subjective experience, including subjective experience of the ‘social’ as part of the biopsychosocial constellation.

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Some very important people are depressed. Get over it!A three-part narrative review of depression memoirs in the public sphere. Part 3: the new depressives and the challenge of stigma

Clarke

2021

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

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Historical Perspectives on Mental Health and Psychiatry

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Not doomed: sociology and psychiatry, and ignorance and expertise

Not doomed: sociology and psychiatry, and ignorance and expertise

Images of depression in Charles Baudelaire: clinical understanding in the context of poetry and social history

Some very important people are depressed. Get over it!A three-part narrative review of depression memoirs in the public sphere. Part 3: the new depressives and the challenge of stigma

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